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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S1E10: Apollo 13
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Whether there would be time for forensic work before the spacecraft died was unclear—something Liebergot understood better than anyone else. It was ...
S1E9: Soyuz 11
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger takes you through the Soyuz 11 mission and the events that make it one of the most harrowing space missions of all time.
S1E8: Mir
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It can be oddly peaceful inside a dying spacecraft. That was not something Michael Foale ever suspected—and with good reason. When you’re inside a...
S1E7: Luca
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Space has a lot of ways to kill you. It’s a beautiful place to contemplate and a thrilling place to visit, but for all its appeal, it’s got murder...
S1E6: Apollo 12
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Conrad had no business trying to fly to the moon on a rainy morning in November of 1969. And NASA, by the look of things, had no business agreein...
S1E5: Gemini 9
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If Gemini 9 started off under a curse, the bad fortune seemed determined to stick around.TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger takes you through the Gemini 9 missio...
S1E4: Gus Grissom
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gus Grissom tried not to give much thought to the fact that the rocket he was riding to space was built to kill people. But the terrible V-2 would be...
S1E3: Apollo 1
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Whether ship or mere simulator, the Apollo had so far impressed most people at NASA as a slapdash machine. It was temperamental, error-prone, and impo...
S1E2: Gemini 8
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Armstrong didn’t believe in omens, but he got a nasty one anyway the moment he climbed into his Gemini 8 spacecraft on the morning of March 16,...
S1E1: Apollo 10
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There were a lot of mission rules in the official flight plan when Apollo 10 was preparing to leave Earth on its journey to the moon, but the most imp...
Teaser Episode
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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