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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.
Continue reading Ep 302: Apollo FORE-teen
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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
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In celebration of our 300th episode, we do a nice relaxed mostly unstructured episode. We talk about space, and robots, and movies for some reason.
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We talk about the “Lunar Surveyor” program, and Apollo 12. For our second mission to the moon, almost everything went perfectly. Which is much more than I can say about Monday.
Continue reading Ep 299: Apollo 12, and the lab has a problem
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We talk about Apollo 1 through 11, take a little time to look at the Apollo program’s onboard computers, and finally finish with the first human footsteps on the moon.
Continue reading Ep 298: One giant leap
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In honor of April fools’ day, we start with real science and then go off into wild speculation. We talk about the possibility of faster than light, and time travel. Not to be taken seriously, but fun!
Continue reading Ep 297: FTL, and the relativistic refrigerator