Coming Home: Re-entry, Aborts & Heat Shields

Twenty-five thousand miles per hour and one ablative shield standing between the crew and the plasma — plus the abort systems that never fired.

Playlist by @apollo_engineering

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Insane Engineering of Re-Entry — Real Engineering
2. Heat Shields - Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach — Scott Manley
3. How the Apollo Spacecraft works: Part 3 — Jared Owen
4. Apollo Launch Abort System Test — oisiaa
5. 1000 Seconds to Home: Apollo Heat Shield — textronsystems
6. Nasa Apollo Command Module Re-Entry and parachutes explained. — salland12
7. Apollo - Atmospheric Entry Phase (1968) — AIRBOYD
8. The Launch Escape Subsystem Explained: Apollo’s Last Line of Defense — apollo11space
9. How Apollo Separated the Command Module from the Service Module Before Reentry — apollo11space
10. How Apollo Oriented the Command Module for Re‑entry — The Maneuver That Couldn’t Fail — apollo11space
11. What is a Spacecraft's Heat Shield? — Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
12. Apollo 13: Home Safe — NASA