July 3, 2024E36 – VIKINGS 101 w/ Ben Thompson! (Badass Of The Week) – PodcastE36 – VIKINGS 101 w/ Ben Thompson! (Badass Of The Week) “Fear not death for the hour of your doom is set and none may escape […]
June 20, 2024From the Earth to the Moon: The Origins of NASA and the Space Race (1514-1972)“Failure is not an option.” – Gene Kranz (NASA Flight Director, during Apollo 13) Just 66 years after the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903, […]
June 17, 2024E35.5 – 2024 / Season 4 Updates and Announcements (Podcast)Erik Slader returns with a 2024 ‘State of the Podcast’ report – talking about the history and future of the show, a quick rundown of recent […]
May 10, 2024The Soviet VENERA Space Probes (USSR: 1961-1985)At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik” – the first satellite into orbit, in 1957, sparking the Space Race between the […]
May 6, 2024The Space Shuttle Program (NASA: 1977-2011)When Ben and I were working on “Epic Fails – The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff”, we went way over our word count, and actually […]