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    <title>The Space Shot - Episodes Tagged with “Beam”</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>Subscribe and check out the massive back catalog (Season 1 has 365 episodes) for some excellent bite-sized pieces of space history, pop culture, science, and more.  Whether you're into history, science, pop-culture, or current events, there's something for you here at The Space Shot. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>A concentrated dose of space awesomeness, delivered right to your podcast feed.</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:author>John Mulnix</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Subscribe and check out the massive back catalog (Season 1 has 365 episodes) for some excellent bite-sized pieces of space history, pop culture, science, and more.  Whether you're into history, science, pop-culture, or current events, there's something for you here at The Space Shot. 
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  <title>Episode 59: Inflatable Space Stations &amp; Telstar Part Three</title>
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  <itunes:title>Inflatable Space Stations &amp; Telstar Part Three</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The last of a three-part Telstar episode series, plus inflatable space stations.  I've got some cool audio of President Kennedy in this episode, subscribe and download today! </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Episode Links:
Engineering and Technology History Wiki- First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite, 1962 (http://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transatlantic_Television_Signal_via_Satellite,_1962)
Telstar, A History (http://www.smecc.org/john_pierce1.htm)
John Robinson Pierce Interview- Caltech Oral Histories (http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/98/)
AT&amp;amp;T Archives- Telstar! (https://youtu.be/uKH-GijnAGk)
First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satellite (https://youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?t=16m41s)
Genesis 1- The Internet Archive- Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20160629093633/http://bigelowaerospace.com/genesis)
STS-104 NASA Mission Summary (https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-104/mission-sts-104.html)
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    <![CDATA[<p>Episode Links:</p>

<p><a href="http://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transatlantic_Television_Signal_via_Satellite,_1962" rel="nofollow">Engineering and Technology History Wiki- First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite, 1962</a><br>
<a href="http://www.smecc.org/john_pierce1.htm" rel="nofollow">Telstar, A History</a><br>
<a href="http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/98/" rel="nofollow">John Robinson Pierce Interview- Caltech Oral Histories</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/uKH-GijnAGk" rel="nofollow">AT&amp;T Archives- Telstar!</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?t=16m41s" rel="nofollow">First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satellite</a></p>

<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160629093633/http://bigelowaerospace.com/genesis" rel="nofollow">Genesis 1- The Internet Archive- Wayback Machine</a></p>

<p><a href="https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-104/mission-sts-104.html" rel="nofollow">STS-104 NASA Mission Summary</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Episode Links:</p>

<p><a href="http://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transatlantic_Television_Signal_via_Satellite,_1962" rel="nofollow">Engineering and Technology History Wiki- First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite, 1962</a><br>
<a href="http://www.smecc.org/john_pierce1.htm" rel="nofollow">Telstar, A History</a><br>
<a href="http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/98/" rel="nofollow">John Robinson Pierce Interview- Caltech Oral Histories</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/uKH-GijnAGk" rel="nofollow">AT&amp;T Archives- Telstar!</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?t=16m41s" rel="nofollow">First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satellite</a></p>

<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160629093633/http://bigelowaerospace.com/genesis" rel="nofollow">Genesis 1- The Internet Archive- Wayback Machine</a></p>

<p><a href="https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-104/mission-sts-104.html" rel="nofollow">STS-104 NASA Mission Summary</a></p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 14: Able &amp; Miss Baker: The Monkeynauts</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  <author>John Mulnix</author>
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  <itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Able &amp; Miss Baker: The Monkeynauts</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The first successful flight with two monkeys happened on this day in 1959.  Able and Miss Baker were special little creatures, especially Miss Baker.  Download episode 14 to hear more about her! </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Episode Links:
NASA: A Brief History of Animals in Space (https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html)
Miss Baker Gravesite (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;amp;GRid=10621868)
NPR: After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104578202)
The Smithsonian: Able On Display (https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/monkey-able)
Rome News Tribune: Monkeys wed at Huntsville (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wAUvAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=9jIDAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;dq=miss%20baker%20monkey%20norman%20died&amp;amp;pg=6633%2C1780576) 
Youtube: Newsreel Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZOATIWNIsM) 
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  <itunes:keywords>able and baker, apollo, beam, bigelow aerospace, iss, miss baker, monkeys, space, space monkeys, spacex, spacex podcast, space podcast, space history podcast, nasa podcast, nasa history podcast, </itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Episode Links:<br>
<a href="https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html" rel="nofollow">NASA: A Brief History of Animals in Space</a><br>
<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10621868" rel="nofollow">Miss Baker Gravesite</a><br>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104578202" rel="nofollow">NPR: After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten</a><br>
<a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/monkey-able" rel="nofollow">The Smithsonian: Able On Display</a><br>
<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wAUvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9jIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=miss%20baker%20monkey%20norman%20died&pg=6633%2C1780576" rel="nofollow">Rome News Tribune: Monkeys wed at Huntsville</a> <br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZOATIWNIsM" rel="nofollow">Youtube: Newsreel Video</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Episode Links:<br>
<a href="https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html" rel="nofollow">NASA: A Brief History of Animals in Space</a><br>
<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10621868" rel="nofollow">Miss Baker Gravesite</a><br>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104578202" rel="nofollow">NPR: After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten</a><br>
<a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/monkey-able" rel="nofollow">The Smithsonian: Able On Display</a><br>
<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wAUvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9jIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=miss%20baker%20monkey%20norman%20died&pg=6633%2C1780576" rel="nofollow">Rome News Tribune: Monkeys wed at Huntsville</a> <br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZOATIWNIsM" rel="nofollow">Youtube: Newsreel Video</a></p>]]>
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