The Hand-Me-Down Space Suit
Unlike the major human spaceflight missions that came before it, the International Space Station didn't come with new space suits. Now almost 40 years...
Moonstruck
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Moonstruck is a podcast about humans in space. Hear from astronauts, engineers, politicians, and space decision-makers as they tell their stories from the history of human spaceflight, sharing how their time at the edge of human understanding taught them about themselves and the rest of us on the ground.
Disaster Strikes
NASA's Space Shuttle has launched more astronauts to outer space than all other space vehicles combined. But instead of being remembered as a workhors...
The Privilege to Launch
After the Soviet Union launched the first woman to space in 1963, the United States waited over twenty years to do the same. NASA didn't consider wome...
Space Germs
When the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on Earth's surface after humankind's first trip to the Moon, their journey wasn't over yet. Concerned about the p...
Bodies in Orbit
Before there was Yuri, there was Laika. When the first human astronaut left Earth’s atmosphere in 1961, both the American and Soviet space programs ha...
Space is Dangerous
Throughout history, humans have had a dangerous pattern of challenging the bounds of Earth's gravity, testing our limits, and expanding our world. In ...