Space: Podcasts that are literally out of this world

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  • 1

    Mrs. Comet and the Man on the Moon

    Great Big Story

    13:42 | Jul 21st, 2020

    8 recommendations

    All his life, Eugene Shoemaker dreamed of stepping foot on the moon. A geologist and planetary scientist known for his work with craters, Gene worked tirelessly in the hopes of becoming an Apollo astr...Show More

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    This episode will make you shed a tear and never look at the moon in the same way again. About a man who was never able to make it to the moon, but became the man on the moon.

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    The crew feels all warm and fuzzy. The Habitat is a production of Gimlet Media. It’s produced by Lynn Levy, Peter Bresnan, and Megan Tan. Our editors are Alex Blumberg, Jorge Just, Caitlin Kenney, and...Show More

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    Human interactions on Mars and why NASA doesn't allow husband and wife teams in space together.

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    Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Korean government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. A story of “Gastrodiplomacy” — the use of food as a diplomatic tool in...Show More

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    “Kimchi is like air” in Korea and why the first Korean female astronaut not cut her hair before going to space plus why her Russian colleague thought about Kimchi.

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    Hey Sisters, Sew Sisters

    The Documentary Podcast

    27:29 | Dec 31st, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Space travel is not always high-tech. When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, seamstresses made their spacesuits at a company famous for stitching latex into Playtex bras. During the Sp...Show More

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    A heartwarming story about the space "Sew Sisters", the women who sewed the spacesuits for the moon landing and thermal blankets for the spaceplane. And this episode was hosted by a female NASA astron...Show More

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    Rocket Man

    Kerning Cultures

    43:03 | Jul 30th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    In the 1960s, a college professor and his group of students were determined to build and launch rockets into space. And so, they did. This week, on Kerning Cultures, a story about the first-ever rocke...Show More

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    Episode 2 - An Astronaut's Perspective

    Serendipity Stories

    19:48 | Jun 12th, 2020

    A lifetime of serendipitous moments led Rafiya Sultana to abandon her childhood dream. Despite the setbacks she faced in her life, Rafiya found a way to trade in her dream so that she could find her t...Show More

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    Watching the Moon Landing

    The New Yorker Radio Hour

    28:23 | Jul 19th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to thrive. Andrew Marantz explores the value of skeptici...Show More

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    A deep dive into the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was a hoax. Did not know that Joe Rogan was a skeptic. Loved how they ended the episode with 3 stories from New Yorker's archive on people'...Show More

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    Holy shit

    Today, Explained

    23:39 | Jul 19th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    On the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Vox’s Brian Resnick says astronauts left something up there that could unlock the origins of life itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...Show More

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    Holy 💩! There's 96 bags on astronaut poop on the moon! This was a hilarious and wild episode that ends in a very serious discussion about creation myths. Worth a listen.

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