{"id":21727,"date":"2016-10-08T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2016-10-08T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:37:27","slug":"george-knudsen-w4gck-a-life-in-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/george-knudsen-w4gck-a-life-in-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"George Knudsen (W4GCK): A Life in Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m very proud to note that my good friend, George Knudsen (W4GCK), has been featured on the excellent omega tau podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0interview is absolutely fascinating–here’s a description:<\/p>\n

George Knudsen started working in 1958 on the Redstone missile, and moved on to working on the Atlas ICBM. Later he worked on the Saturn 5 launch vehicle, where he was responsible for the fuel tanks. He was on the launch team at Cape Canaveral for various Apollo missions. In this episode [we]\u00a0talk with George about his work in this fascinating period of science and engineering history.<\/p>\n

Click here to listen via the omega tau site.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

omega tau<\/a>, hosted by\u00a0Markus V\u00f6lter<\/a>,\u00a0covers\u00a0a wide variety of topics from engineering and science. It’s one of my favorite podcasts, so I would encourage you to not only listen to this episode, but subscribe to the podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m very proud to note that my good friend, George Knudsen (W4GCK), has been featured on the excellent omega tau podcast. The\u00a0interview is absolutely fascinating–here’s a description: George Knudsen started working in 1958 on the Redstone missile, and moved on to working on the Atlas ICBM. Later he worked on the Saturn 5 launch vehicle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,554],"tags":[4225,5528,1672,5530,79,5529],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-apollo-11","tag-george-knudsen-w4gck","tag-nasa","tag-omega-tau","tag-podcasts","tag-w4gck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38518,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/apollo-11-at-50-years-those-who-made-landing-on-the-moon-a-reality\/","url_meta":{"origin":21727,"position":0},"title":"Apollo 11 at 50 years: Those who made landing on the moon a reality","author":"Thomas","date":"July 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I've always said that the key to success is to surround yourself with amazing people. 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