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California's Gold with Huell Howser

Lunar Landing

Season 13 Episode 1303

Huell travels to Edwards, California to visit Dryden Flight Research Center, which is NASA’s primary center for atmospheric flight research and operations. Before man could walk on the moon, they had to land safely and the Lunar Lander needed a lot of fine-tuning. Huell meets up with some of the men who spent many hours working on and flying the craft in preparation for the first moon landing.

This episode is available to stream until 9/25/24.

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24:13
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27:35
Huell visits Tuolumne Meadows inside Yosemite National Park and learns about the history.
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27:37
Huell attends a lively recreation of an old-fashioned harvest near Modesto.
Manzanar
28:51
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26:16
Huell Howser travels to the Central Coast in search of historic Nitt Witt Ridge.
Fire Lookout
27:44
Travel with Huell to Sequoia National Forest to visit historic Buck Rock Fire Lookout.
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