Failure To Launch

Failure To Launch Podcast
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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.

  1. Mittelwerk: Part 6 (w. Joe Kassabian)

    12/31/2025

    Mittelwerk: Part 6 (w. Joe Kassabian)

    CONTENT WARNINGOnly 21 people were ever convicted for crimes at Mittelwerk. Only 1 was executed. This week, we're finalizing our series on the slave factory that produced Hitler's vengeance weapons. Joining us is genocide historian Joe Kassabian to lend his insight on how Mittelbau fit into the larger German camp network and slave labour scheme. Listen to Joe talk more history on Lions Led By Donkeys SOURCES: Andre Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 RocketsJean Michel & Louis Nucera, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners DiedMichael Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile EraBenny Grunfeld, A Teenager in Hitler's Death CampsT D Dungan, V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile

    1h 29m
  2. *PREVIEW* Men in Black 3 (2012)

    12/23/2025

    *PREVIEW* Men in Black 3 (2012)

    This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, consider supporting Failure To Launch on Patreon.

    16 min
  3. Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 5

    12/17/2025

    Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 5

    CONTENT WARNING This week we're back into our series delving into Mittelwerk, the underground rocket factory / concentration camp that produced Hitler's "Vengeance Weapons". In Part 5, we look at the official establishment of the Mittelbau complex and the constellation of subcamps that sprung up around it. SOURCES: Andre Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 RocketsJean Michel & Louis Nucera, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners DiedMichael Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile EraBenny Grunfeld, A Teenager in Hitler's Death CampsT D Dungan, V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile

    57 min
  4. *UNLOCKED* Arkbird (Ace Combat 5)

    12/12/2025

    *UNLOCKED* Arkbird (Ace Combat 5)

    The White Bird. The Bridge to Peace. Osea's greatest superweapon. Today, we're talking about the High-Altitude Mobile Spacecraft (HAMS) or as it's more commonly known: The Arkbird. We cover everything from its conception in the paranoid heyday of the Cold War, how it was created as a symbol of peace and cooperation, and its use as a weapon of war. Sources:- Arkbird Declaration (2008 G7 Meeting, LEO), Gaze Magazine- Arkbird, Encyclopedia Strangereal- The Circum-Pacific War, Encyclopedia Strangereal- Scinfaxi-Class, Covert ShoresTheme song provided by DJ Danarchy

    1h 2m
  5. Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 4

    12/03/2025

    Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 4

    CONTENT WARNING This week we're back into our series delving into Mittelwerk, the underground rocket factory / concentration camp that produced Hitler's "Vengeance Weapons". In Part 4, we take a look at the wider events in Nazi politics and the war in 1944 and how they all filter back to the tunnels under Nordhausen. SOURCES: Andre Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 RocketsJean Michel & Louis Nucera, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners DiedMichael Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile EraBenny Grunfeld, A Teenager in Hitler's Death CampsT D Dungan, V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile

    1h 10m

  6. 11/21/2025

    *PREVIEW* FTL | Q&A #1

    This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, consider supporting Failure To Launch on Patreon. Welcome to the first Failure To Launch Questions & Answers episode! Pulling together questions asked on Patreon and our Discord, this is our chance to let the audience see the real Us.

    18 min
  7. Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 3

    11/18/2025

    Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 3

    CONTENT WARNING We are back and continuing our series on Mittelwerk-Dora, the rocket factory concentration camp that churned out Hitler's Vengeance weapons. In Part 3, we cover the foundation of the factory itself, its first months of operation, and the conditions faced by slave labourers from all around Europe in the tunnels under Nordhausen. SOURCES: Andre Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 RocketsJean Michel & Louis Nucera, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners DiedMichael Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile EraBenny Grunfeld, A Teenager in Hitler's Death CampsT D Dungan, V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile

    57 min
  8. *PREVIEW* Mickey 17 (w. Jacob Dallas)

    10/31/2025

    *PREVIEW* Mickey 17 (w. Jacob Dallas)

    This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, consider supporting Failure To Launch on Patreon. We're back and joined by host of The Socialist Shelf podcast Jacob Dallas to talk about 2025's Mickey 17. We go through the plot, the philosophy and ethics of cloning, and how this movie's attitudes toward class issues and dystopia compare to director Bong Joon Ho's earlier works, say, Snowpiercer. The tardigrade teddy bears were an A+ addition, though.

    13 min
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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.

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  • Creator
    Failure To Launch Podcast
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    99
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