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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.
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*PREVIEW* Solaris (1972)
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Max Valier: The Space Evangelist
Non-failure topic this week as Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris talk about Max Valier, the Austrian dude largely responsible for popularizing space research, creating the first professional rocket program, and riding rocket cars.
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Sources
- Max Valier, A Pioneer of Space Travel - Ilse Essers
- The Rocket Men (Air Force Magazine)
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Part 2: Soyuz 11 Disaster (w/ Beyond the Breakers)
*CONTENT WARNING*
This week, we're back with Taylor and Tanner of the Beyond the Breakers podcast for part 2 of our series on Soyuz 11.
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Sources:
- Salyut - The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy, Grujica Ivanovich (2008)
- Rockets and People Volume 4: The Moon Race, Boris Chertok (2013)
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Part 1: Soyuz 11 Disaster (w/ Beyond the Breakers)
The story of the world's first space station is complicated, tragic, and incredibly stupid. Today, we're joined by Tanner and Taylor from @beyond_breakers to talk about it.
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Sources:
- Salyut - The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy, Grujica Ivanovich (2008)
- Rockets and People Volume 4: The Moon Race, Boris Chertok (2013)
- Mir Hardware Heritage, NASA (1995)
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*PREVIEW* Teens In The Universe (1974)
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Balloonomania (w. Nicholas Slayton)
The French were the first to fly and it made them really weird about balloons. This episode, we're joined by journalist @NSlayton to talk all about the first balloons and aeronauts.
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Sources:
- The Aeronauts, Donald Dale Jackson
- The Early History of Ballooning, Fraser Simons