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For our last episode on space and space travel, we take a look at the private business based space programs.
Continue reading Ep 310: Dreams and schemes in space
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17 years after the space shuttle Challenger broke up during launch, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during reentry. We take a look at what happened and why.
Continue reading Ep 309: The Columbia’s last flight
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In January of 1986, the space shuttle Challenger came apart 73 seconds after launch. We take a look at what happened and why.
Continue reading Ep 308: The Challenger’s last flight
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With 135 missions over a 30 year period, the STS was enormously successful. It will take another episode or two to cover, but we start with an overview of NASA’s space shuttle program.
Continue reading Ep 307: The space shuttle
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We spend time talking about America’s first space station, a strike in space that didn’t happen, the first joint US USSR mission, and how and why Skylab fell.
Continue reading Ep 306: Skylab has fallen
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After four years of doing the show, we’re still doing the show! In celebration we talk about the show, how it started, how Phil joined as cohost, nuclear fusion, quantum tunneling, planetary probes, and a lightspeed camera.
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America’s Skylab space station was badly damaged during its launch. Meanwhile the USSR launch several space stations, some of which worked better than others.
Continue reading Ep 304: A space station in Parel, and cannons in orbit
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We cover the Apollo 15 through 17 missions. That includes the lunar rover vehicle, moonquakes, the incredible shrinking moon, and a colorful surprise.
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Apollo fourteen was a mission that went almost entirely according to plan. It included the moon trees, and the only person to play golf on the moon’s surface so far.
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The Apollo 13 mission never landed on the moon; they only swung around it. They had a little problem when part of their spacecraft decided to explode. We also salute Michael Collins, Astronaut for the Gemini and Apollo programs, who died last week at the age of 90.
Continue reading Ep 301: Apollo 13 and its problems