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Cosmic Controversy covers past and present issues in aerospace and astronomy with your host --- science journalist, Forbes contributor and ”Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System” author Bruce Dorminey.
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Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
The earliest days of robotic space exploration, to the Moon, Venus, Mars, and even Mercury, likely would never have played out in such dramatic fashion in the late 1950s and early 1960s without the Cold War. Despite a steep learning curve with lots of rocket misfires and mission malfunctions, it was a hair-trigger era of interplanetary exploration that offered the world its first close up views of our nearest planetary neighbors. Former NASA Chief Historian Roger Launius and I discuss the details in this revealing episode.
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"Despite its current woes, the United States is a fascinating and complex place, with an incredible history of innovation and achievement. This episode looks at the very germ of what would become America's space program. Beginning in tandem with the Cold War in the years immediately following World War Two, American involvement in space was at least partly due to a need to compete with a burgeoning and concerning growth in Soviet reach and influence. It makes for an incredible tale!
Saturday Nov 28, 2020
Great episode Bruce! I loved learning about the very early history of the Space Race and its place in Cold War geopolitics. Again, great ep!
Saturday Nov 28, 2020
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