Episode – 2184 : The Dangers of Weightlessness and Its Solutions Podcast Transcripts The human body was built for gravity. Take it away, and bones weaken, muscles shrink, fluids shift, […]
Episode – 2133 : Project Mercury: America’s First Steps Into Space
Episode – 2133 : Project Mercury: America’s First Steps Into Space Podcast Transcript In the late 1950s, the United States found itself trailing in the Space Race as the Soviet […]
Episode – 2073 : Skylab
Episode – 2073 : Skylab Podcast Transcript In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next? The answer was Skylab, […]
Episode – 2025 : The Year 2025
Episode – 2025 : The Year 2025 Podcast Transcript 525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every […]
Episode – 1993 : Europa
Episode – 1993 : Europa Podcast Transcript Located around the orbit of Jupiter is the moon Europa. It is the smallest of the Gallelian moons and the second closest to […]
Episode – 1984 : Helium
Episode – 1984 : Helium Podcast Transcript Sitting at the far top right of the periodic table is the element helium. Helium is the second-lightest and second-most abundant element in […]
Episode – 1932 : Starship Update
Episode – 1932 : Starship Update Podcast Transcript One of the biggest advances in space flight right now is happening with the development of Starship. Starship is the largest rocket […]
Episode – 1894 : The Never Ending Voyager Missions
Episode – 1894 : The Never Ending Voyager Missions Podcast Transcript In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost […]
Episode – 1784 : The Moons of Jupiter
Episode – 1784 : The Moons of Jupiter In 1610, Galileo Gallieli used a new invention called the telescope to observe the planet Jupiter. What he found revolutionized the science […]
Episode – 1760 : Questions and Answers: Volume 30
Episode – 1760 : Questions and Answers: Volume 30 Podcast Transcript May is upon us. It is the month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, of autumn in the Southern […]
Episode – 1570 : Terraforming Mars
Episode – 1570 : Terraforming Mars Podcast Transcript Ever since the dawn of the space age, there have been some who have dreamed of establishing a human presence on Mars. […]
Episode – 1477 : A Brief History of Nothing
Episode – 1477 : A Brief History of Nothing Podcast Transcript One of the most difficult concepts for early thinkers to get their heads around was the idea of nothing. […]
Episode – 1970 : The Apollo 1 Disaster
Episode – 1970 : The Apollo 1 Disaster Podcast Transcript In the early 1960s, the United States was always a step behind the Soviet Union in the space race. By […]
Episode – 1408 : Edward Teller and the Development of the H-Bomb
Episode – 1408 : Edward Teller and the Development of the H-Bomb Podcast Transcript During the Second World War, the United States established the highly secret Manhattan Project to develop […]
Episode – 1286 : Alternative Forms of Space Flight
Episode – 1286 : Alternative Forms of Space Flight Podcast Transcript Every single rocket that has ever been launched into space has been a rocket that burned some sort of […]
Episode – 1241 : Uranus
Episode – 1241 : Uranus Podcast Transcript Located approximately 1.8 billion miles or 2.9 billion kilometers from the sun, 19 times the distance from the Earth to the sun, is […]
Episode – 1219 : Sergei Korolev: The Most Important Russian You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Episode – 1219 : Sergei Korolev: The Most Important Russian You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Podcast Transcript In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet space program was on […]
Episode – 1116 : Soyuz 11
Episode – 1116 : Soyuz 11 Podcast Transcript Having lost the race to the Moon, the Soviet space program decided to go in a different direction. If they couldn’t be […]
Episode – 1036 : The International Space Station
Episode – 1036 : The International Space Station Podcast Transcript Even before humans first went into orbit, there had been dreams of establishing a permanent presence in space. For almost […]
Episode – 0945 : Questions & Answers: Volume 4
Episode – 0945 : Questions & Answers: Volume 4 Podcast Transcript Every February, podcasters will come out of their hole in the ground. If they find listener questions, it means […]