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Displaying items 1-10 of 54 in total of The Space Shot with the tag "apollo".
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Episode 445: The Lunar Era
Episode | October 3rd, 2025 | Season 7 | 2 mins 47 secs
apollo, dr. roger launius, francis french, jim remar, michelle l.d. hanlon, rebecca boyle, the lunar era
Launching during World Space Week 2025: The Lunar Era, a five-part series on the Moon featuring Rebecca Boyle, Francis French, Roger Launius, Michelle Hanlon, Jim Remar, and more.
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Episode 424: From Apollo to Artemis and Beyond- 2020 Update
Episode | July 30th, 2020 | Season 3 | 50 mins 32 secs
apollo, apollo soyuz, artemis, commercial crew, gemini, iss, mercury, shuttle, shuttle mir, shuttle-mir, skylab
Check out an updated version of my Apollo to Artemis and Beyond chat. Also, be sure to get the PDF companion for this talk so you can see the pictures I reference in this episode. Thanks!
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Episode 422: Apollo 13: 50 Years Later (Part 1)
Episode | April 11th, 2020 | Season 3 | 49 mins 3 secs
apollo, apollo 13, apollo 13 50th anniversary, apollo 50, apollo 50th, apollo program, failure is not an option, mission control, nasa, nasa history, space, space exploration, space history, space race
Part 1 of the Apollo 13 resources and history series. Check out the show notes for a ton of links and resources!
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Episode 413: Andy Saunders: Restoring Apollo
Episode | March 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 26 mins 57 secs
andy saunders, apollo, apollo 13, apollo 50, apollo 50th, image restoration, interview, neil armstrong, podcast interview
Check out my fascinating conversation with Andy Saunders. Andy is the genius behind the restored image that shows Neil Armstrong's face (the only one that does so) on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
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Episode 404: The Week in Space History- December 9th to the 15th
Episode | December 12th, 2019 | Season 3 | 17 mins 8 secs
apollo, apollo 17, apollo 50, gemini 7, nasa history, richard easton, spacex, sts-116, sts-88
This week we cover everything from Flopnik, to the ISS, Apollo 17, and more. I also have a special appearance from Richard Easton, where he shares his family connection to Vanguard TV3. Enjoy!
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Episode 398: The Week in Space History- October 21st-27th
Episode | October 25th, 2019 | Season 3 | 17 mins 17 secs
apollo, apollo 7, approach and landing tests, astronauts, cold war, cold war history, deep space 1, enterprise, history, ion engine, jfk, jfk nixon debate, john c stennis space center, lageos, lageos ii, missile gap, mississippi test facility, nasa history, nedelin catastrophe, nixon, pamela melroy, peggy whitson, shuttle approach and landing tests, shuttle enterprise, space history, space shuttle, space shuttle enterprise, sts 120, sts 52, sts-120, sts-52, uss enterprise
The week in space history for October 21st to the 27th. Apologies for the delay in getting this out. I had some computer difficulties, the joys of an aging laptop, which put me behind.
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Episode 396: The Week in Space History- October 7th-13th
Episode | October 11th, 2019 | Season 3 | 13 mins 22 secs
apollo, apollo 50, apollo 7, draper labs, explorer 7, lcross, lro, lunar reconnaissance orbiter, nasa history, sputnik, the week in space history, this week in space history, world space week
This is the first episode in what will be a weekly series of space history episodes. Enjoy!
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Episode 395: From Apollo to Artemis and Beyond
Episode | August 4th, 2019 | Season 3 | 49 mins 1 sec
apollo, apollo 11, apollo 11 50th, apollo 13, apollo 50, apollo 50th, artemis, cold war, gemini, history, luna, mercury, moon, moon landing, nasa, nasa apollo, nasa artemis, nasa history, space, space history, space race
From Apollo to Artemis and Beyond. In this episode, you'll hear my presentation I gave a few weeks ago. I covered space history, from before the Apollo program, up to present-day initiatives.
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Episode 394: Go, Flight! A Conversation with Author Rick Houston
Episode | July 18th, 2019 | Season 3 | 21 mins 52 secs
apollo, apollo 11, apollo 50, flight controller, go flight, johnson space center, jsc, milt heflin, mission control, mocr, mocr 2, nasa, nasa flight controller, nasa history, nasa mission control, nasa podcast, oral history, rick houston, space history, space podcast
In this special edition of the Cosmosphere Podcast we hear from author Rick Houston about the book that he co-authored. It's called "Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control."
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Episode 393: Mission Control, Mission Accomplished and Mars Curiosity with Sarah Lamm
Episode | July 18th, 2019 | Season 3 | 41 mins 58 secs
apollo, apollo 11, apollo 11 50th, cosmosphere, cosmosphere podcast, flight controller, history podcast, houston, jim remar, johnson space center, jsc, mission control, mocr, nasa, nasa history, sarah lamm, space, space history, space podcast
Check out Episode 17 of the Cosmosphere Podcast. This month we hear from the Cosmosphere CEO and President Jim Remar. He gives us an update on the completed MOCR restoration. We also talked with Sarah Lamm, a graduate student, science communicator, and Solar System Ambassador about her work. You'll also hear from Carla about what's up at the Cosmosphere this summer.