Ep 73 - The Space Race: "What Was the Third Guy's Name?"
Gems of History
English - July 04, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For the 4th of July, we decided to cover an American milestone - the moon landing. During the Cold War, there was a lot of focus put on both the Soviet Union and the United States to be the first country to put a man into space and eventually on the moon. The United States eventually won, but they recruited help from an unlikely place, the Nazis.
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