Latest Apollo 11 Podcast Episodes
WTSTW 1770: The Gweagal Shield
Works That Shaped The World - November 04, 2020 04:13 - 30 minutes1770 was a year of change on the cusp of the modern world. It was the year that James Cook set sail on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour. In April, he and a party landed at Kamay, what Europeans would come to call Botany Bay. There an encounter took place. In the British Museum an...
The Lunar Origins of Cinema: Georges Méliès and Le Voyage dans la Lune
Works That Shaped The World - October 07, 2019 22:39 - 38 minutesSince the early days of cinema, the moon has been an enchanting muse. The science of filmmaking was invented by the Lumière brothers, who débuted their cinématographe camera to astonished audiences in 1896. Yet it was their fellow Frenchman Georges Méliès, and his experimentations with ...
S E15: Paperclip Family Legacies: Herman "Topper" Birney
Apollo 11 Legacies - September 12, 2019 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings"Topper" Birney recounts what it was like being a teenager at Fort Bliss when the German Rocket team came to America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Globe and the Moon: Shakespeare's Astronomical Imagination
Works That Shaped The World - September 10, 2019 02:20 - 39 minutesHow did Shakespeare understand the moon? In plays and poems of the 16th century, the moon carried the imaginative freight of centuries. The moon is invoked to express longing, chastity, coldness, changeability, envy, and the passage of time. As from ancient times, it was also understoo...
S E14: Paperclip Family Legacies: Juergen Haukohl
Apollo 11 Legacies - August 28, 2019 20:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA firsthand account of the immigration experience for German families of the Wernher von Braun rocket team as they moved to Fort Bliss, Texas. Recorded as part of a panel discussion in Huntsville, Alabama February 2019. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
S E13: German Heritage in Huntsville
Apollo 11 Legacies - August 14, 2019 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsConversation with Heidi Collier, chair of Huntsville's German-American Heritage Committee and daughter of one of the original German scientists on the Apollo 11 team. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...
S E12: Women Of NASA
Apollo 11 Legacies - July 31, 2019 20:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDiscussion about the changing role of women at Marshall Space Flight Center. Six women panelists share experiences and stories about culture, NASA and the future. Recorded April 2019. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
S E11: Through the News Lens: Recollections of Apollo 11
Apollo 11 Legacies - July 19, 2019 16:33 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsVeteran news correspondents Jerry Hayes, Steve Johnson and Greg Screws share stories about the "impossible mission" of the moon landing, meeting notables like Neil Armstrong, and what the space program means to Huntsville. Recorded in WHNT studios July 2019. See Privacy Policy at https...
Dennis Frasca
Moon Landing Memories - July 19, 2019 16:12 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJuly 20th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. All Month, we have been asking listeners to share their memories of the historic moment. We were alerted that Dennis Frasca, a resident of VB, was instrumental in working with local defense contractor Grumman on a simulator that...
Episode 5: Contingency
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 19, 2019 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor our fifth episode, host Karama Horne introduces a speech read by guest Dany Roth that President Richard Nixon would have read in the event of a moon disaster and the astronauts did not make it back to earth. Thankfully, Nixon never had to read it, but the remarkable words still haun...
Karen from Norfolk
Moon Landing Memories - July 18, 2019 15:37 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKaren was a ten year old and like the NASA workers, her breath until they hearing "The Eagle has Landed." She watched with her family, including her grandmother who was born in 1900 and has seen the growth of aviation- from the Wright Brothers, to Amelia Earhart, to a lunar landing.
Dennis Frasca
Moon Landing Memories - July 18, 2019 15:35 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJuly 20th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. All Month, we have been asking listeners to share their memories of the historic moment. We were alerted that Dennis Frasca, a resident of VB, was instrumental in working with local defense contractor Grumman on a simulator that ...
Episode 4: The Final Hurdle - Quarantine
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 18, 2019 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn our fourth episode, host Karama Horne and astronomer Phil Plait explore an often overlooked part of the Apollo 11 mission: Quarantine. The three astronauts were kept in quarantine for three weeks, once more suspended in isolation, only this time on Earth. See Privacy Policy at https...
S E10: Think the Moon Landing was Fake? Come to Huntsville
Apollo 11 Legacies - July 17, 2019 19:56 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNASA veteran Homer Hickam, whose 1998 memoir Rocket Boys was the basis for the 1999 film "October Sky," shares his thoughts about conspiracy theorists and returning to the moon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
Dennis Frasca
Moon Landing Memories - July 17, 2019 15:58 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJuly 20th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. All Month, we have been asking listeners to share their memories of the historic moment. We were alerted that Dennis Frasca, a resident of VB, was instrumental in working with local defense contractor Grumman on a simulator that...
Episode 3: The Photo of Everything
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 17, 2019 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn our third episode, host Karama Horne and astronomer Phil Plait aim to illuminate the significance of not only the man behind the camera, but also the photo taken that didn't just change history, but showed all of it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
Episode 2: The Hardest Task
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 16, 2019 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn our second episode, Karama Horne takes us through the story behind a surprisingly difficult part of the Apollo 11 mission. Planting the American flag. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. ...
Dennis Frasca
Moon Landing Memories - July 15, 2019 19:40 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDennis Frasca, a resident of VB, was instrumental in working with Grumman on a simulator that was used in the early work ups for Apollo 11. He shares with us his memories and observation of the early days leading to the moment that man first stepped foot on the moon.
Episode 1: A Troubled Descent
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 15, 2019 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this first episode, host Karama Horne and contributor astronomer Phil Plait tell the story of the moon landing - not of the accomplishment, but of its near failure. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel...
Chris Beisel
Moon Landing Memories - July 12, 2019 18:44 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn July 1969, 22 year old Chris Beisel was playing in a band at the legendary Peppermint Beach Club in Virginia Beach. He recalls how the manager of the club stopped the band and dancers to watch a small portable tv brought out to watch the moon landing.
Judy Flowers
Moon Landing Memories - July 12, 2019 17:05 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJudy Flowers of Virginia Beach was on vacation with her husband and young daughter in July 1969. They were in Kitty Hawk at a rental home that had no television ( in fact, as she recalls, none of the homes did- it was unthinkable). The local Post Office placed a small tv in the window and vacati...
Mike from Norfolk
Moon Landing Memories - July 12, 2019 17:03 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMike remembers seeing the moon landing with his parents and grandmother. They watched it on a small 1940s vintage television that belonged to his grandmother.
Debra Wallace Dise
Moon Landing Memories - July 12, 2019 17:01 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDebra Wallace Dise recalls being at a Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho and with no tv at the campsite, her dad took her to a bar to watch the moon landing.
Alison Schoew
Moon Landing Memories - July 12, 2019 04:58 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlison Schoew shares her memory of the moon landing, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and her mother.
Ron Wolf
Moon Landing Memories - July 11, 2019 19:12 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRon Wolf of Virginia's Eastern Shore had tickets to see Cream in concert and he remembers how he band would not come out and play until after they saw the moon landing.
Jim Kirkpatrick
Moon Landing Memories - July 11, 2019 15:37 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJim Kirkpatrick was a youth leader at a church run camp in July 1969. He gathered with campers in a dining hall to watch the landing. He remembers being in "the mountains of Virginia and watching man adjust a camera on the moon and sitting in a state of wonder at the marvel of it all."
John Rovenolt
Moon Landing Memories - July 10, 2019 21:43 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJohn Rovenolt from Norfolk Virginia recalls the monumental crusade and Walter Cronkite’s tearful reaction to the moon landing.
Coming Soon!
Revisiting Apollo 11: 5 Untold Stories - July 10, 2019 17:57 - 24 seconds ★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou've heard the story of the moon-landing before, but you probably haven't heard about all the other out of this world stories that happened during the Apollo 11 mission. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Brenda Barkley
Moon Landing Memories - July 09, 2019 21:42 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBrenda Barkley was planning her wedding in the summer of 1969. She watched the moon landing with her grandfather, who was also her wedding photographer.
Dan Taber
Moon Landing Memories - July 08, 2019 21:40 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDan Taber from Virginia Beach reflects on how it felt to be a pilot and watching the moon landing while in a bunker in Vietnam.
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