The Space Shot
A concentrated dose of space awesomeness, delivered right to your podcast feed.
We found 10 episodes of The Space Shot with the tag “space”.
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Episode 41: Meteors, UFOs, and MUOS 5
Episode | June 24th, 2017 | Season 1 | 4 mins 30 secs
atlas v, cape canaveral, kennedy space center, launch, meteor, muos, rocket, rocket launch, rockets, roswell, space, united states armed forces, us navy, usaf
The Navy's MUOS 5 satellite launched on this day in 2016. Plus, a meteor and the Roswell coverup.
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Episode 40: Digital Amnesia and Core B1029
Episode | June 23rd, 2017 | Season 1 | 6 mins 27 secs
computers, digital amnesia, falcon 9, history, nasa, space, spacex, tocqueville
SpaceX launched and stuck a (hard) landing earlier today. I will link to the webcast in the show notes! Also, digital amnesia with a bit of Tocqueville for good measure. Subscribe and share the podcast today!
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Episode 39: Film Cameras, Galileo, Charon, and Sally Ride
Episode | June 22nd, 2017 | Season 1 | 6 mins 43 secs
charon, coffee, ektachrome, galileo, kodachrome, kodak, nasa, new horizons, pluto, sally ride, space, the space shot
Big episode today, plus a meowmeo by Mr. Tim. Subscribe today, so you don't miss an episode!
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Episode 37: The V-2
Episode | June 20th, 2017 | Season 1 | 4 mins 34 secs
germany, nasa, nazi, nazis, rocket, rockets, space, v-2, v2, von braun, wernher von braun, wwii
Sending V-2 rockets into space and the STS-78 mission. Subscribe and share the podcast today!
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Episode 36: The Cosmosphere
Episode | June 19th, 2017 | Season 1 | 4 mins 17 secs
apollo, apollo 13, cosmosphere, history, imax, kansas, nasa, soviets, space
Today is the last of the travel episodes for now. Tomorrow the regular format will start back up! Thanks for listening!
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Episode 35: Sally Ride and The Best of Both Worlds
Episode | June 18th, 2017 | Season 1 | 3 mins 37 secs
borg, challenger, nasa, picard, sally ride, shuttle, space, spacex, star trek, the borg, woman astronaut
Two topics today, Sally Ride became the first American woman astronaut in 1983 and Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds" released in 1990.
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Episode 34: Royalty in Space and Mr. & Mrs. Pyle
Episode | June 17th, 2017 | Season 1 | 2 mins 3 secs
nasa, royalty, saudi arabia, shuttle, space, space shuttle
Quick episode today!
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Episode 33: Valentina Tereshkova & Roadtrip!
Episode | June 16th, 2017 | Season 1 | 4 mins 48 secs
cold war, space, space race, valentina tereshkova, vostok
I'm on the road for the next few days, so please bear with me on the audio quality for some of these episodes. I will have more on Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride this weekend, since both of their historic flights took place in June.
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Episode 31: Difference Engines, Albert II, and the V-2
Episode | June 14th, 2017 | Season 1 | 5 mins 24 secs
animals, difference engine, lego, legos, missiles, monkeys, nasa, otd, rockets, space, spaceflight, v-2, white sands, white sands missile range
On this day in 1822, Charles Babbage introduced the idea for his Difference Engine, a computational device that he hoped would produce more accurate mathematical tables. Also on this day in 1949, Albert II died after reaching space.
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Episode 30: The Millennium and Peregrine Falcons
Episode | June 13th, 2017 | Season 1 | 4 mins 52 secs
asteroid field, asteroids, empire strikes back, hayabusa, jaxa, millennium falcon, nasa, pioneer, pioneer 10, space, star wars
On this day in 1983, the Pioneer 10 probe became the first spacecraft to leave the major planets in our solar system. Also on this day in 2010, the asteroid sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft lands in Australia.