Now Playing
Sputnik's Fear to Apollo's Fire: Twelve Years That Changed Everything
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
From Sputnik's unexpected beep in 1957 to the Apollo 1 disaster, this chapter traces the cold war space race through the rival engineers who built it — and the human cost they paid. Wernher von Braun, Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin, and the forgotten bridge of Gemini reveal why reaching the Moon was never just about exploration.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
On Christmas Eve of nineteen sixty-eight, three men orbited the Moon and saw the Earth rise above it. That image, that single photograph, did something the entire space race had never managed.
Chapter summary auto-generated from the verified script. Listen to the full episode for the complete content.