A Political History of Apollo

The Planetary Society

Explore the politics of why the United States decided to send humans to the Moon—and why the nation pulled back after landing only six times. Hosted by Casey Dreier, the Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Adviser at The Planetary Society, this special edition podcast features some of the world’s leading space policy experts and historians in interviews initially broadcast as part of the monthly show, Planetary Radio: Space Policy Edition. Together these interviews, along with new opening analyses, attempt to tell a fuller story about Project Apollo, beginning with the political pre-history of the space age, going into...

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A Political History of Apollo

Episodes (5)

Aug 12, 2019 Episode 5 - A Gift or a Curse?
Jul 29, 2019 Episode 4 - Why it Ended (With John Logsdon)
Jul 18, 2019 Episode 3 - The Home Front (with Emily Margolis)

A Political History of Apollo

Aug 12, 2019
57 minutes
52 MB

In the final episode, producer Mat Kaplan joins Casey to reflect on the lessons and legacy of Apollo. Was it a burden on the space program or a gift for future generations? What can we take away from this single data point of humans walking on another world? And what should we be wary of? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Political History of Apollo

Episode 5 - A Gift or a Curse?

The Planetary Society

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