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Back to Search#77 The stranded astronauts are finally home after 9 months in space. Let’s see how Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got home
Season 1 Episode 77
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Their planned 8 day visit to the International Space Station was turned on its head when NASA announced their Boeing Starliner capsul…
1 year, 6 months ago
#76 The Apollo program was the high point of the space age. From test flights, to lunar landings and the moon buggies
Season 1 Episode 76
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After everything learned through Mercury and Gemini culminated in the seventeen Apollo missions. The first ten were all testing and r…
1 year, 7 months ago
#75 NASA's Project Gemini was a spectacular program that bridged the gap from Project Mercury to Apollo. Gemini developed the incredible technology and techniques needed for the lunar program
Season 1 Episode 75
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Nasa had accomplished spaceflight with Project Mercury but the gap to Apollo was still huge. How do you dock two spacecraft in flight…
1 year, 8 months ago
#74 At the beginning of the space race, Project Mercury was NASA’s first human crewed spaceflight program, and it was a significant step on the road to the moon. Let’s dive into the vault and check it out.
Season 1 Episode 74
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Back in the late 1950s, NASA was formed. Its first job was to put together a human crewed spaceflight program and put an astronaut in…
1 year, 9 months ago
#73 NASA’s Project Mercury Monument has turned 60! It’s a tribute to America's first attempt at human space flight. The monument has a time capsule that is scheduled to stay sealed for 500 years! Let’s check out what's inside.
Season 1 Episode 73
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Project Mercury was NASA’s first attempt at human crewed space flight. It sent Alan Shepard into space, and John Glenn into orbit, am…
1 year, 10 months ago
#72 The space pioneers from Earth weren’t humans, what? That’s right, long before humans launched into space, there were a whole team of dogs, monkeys, chimps, insects and more, who rode rockets to space. All in the name of research.
Season 1 Episode 72
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When Yuri Gagarin blasted into orbit in 1961 to become the first human in space, he was already 14 years behind the first animals fro…
1 year, 11 months ago
#71 Earth has a new moon! For about the next 8 weeks... Asteroid 2024 PT5 will be captured by Earth's gravity before returning to its normal solar orbit.
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Earth has a new moon! well, for about 8 weeks anyway. Asteroid 2024 PT5 has been captured by Earth’s gravity and will be in orbit unt…
2 years ago
#70 The Boeing Starliner capsule's first crewed test flight has left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. What went wrong, and how are they going to get home?
Season 1 Episode 70
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Boeing’s Starliner space capsule blasted off for its first crewed test flight in early June. Great news right? Turns out, no. After a…
2 years, 1 month ago
#69 NASA's Curiosity rover has just made the most incredible discovery of its 12 years on Mars. By running over a rock!
Season 1 Episode 69
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NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars in August 2012, and it's been exploring the Red Planet all that time. There have been som…
2 years, 2 months ago
#68 A piece of space history was written this month, a sample from the far side of the moon! Let's check out the Chang'e 6 lunar lander and it's history-making mission.
Season 1 Episode 68
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As I write this, just a couple of days have passed since the Chang'e 6 sample return capsule touched down with its historic payload. …
2 years, 3 months ago