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Episode 11: One Small Step: 50 Years Later

July 15th, 2019

Half a century ago this week, Apollo 11 set out to land on the moon. It was the culmination of hundreds of thousands of brilliant engineers working to make science fiction into science fact. But who were the three men who went on the journey? What did they experience during their epic journey to an alien world? And what significance does their historic mission have for humanity 50 years later?

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REFERENCES:

*"What You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Mission" *
by Charles Fishman
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-you-didnt-know-about-apollo-11-mission-fifty-years-ago-180972165/

'The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space'
by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis

'Somebody Else is on the Moon'
by George H. Leonard

Sergei Korolev: the Rocket Genius Behind Yuri Gagarin
(2011) Guardian article
by Robin McKie

'NOVA: To the Moon' (1997) PBS documentary

'The Engines that Came in From the Cold' (2001) documentary

'CuriousDroid' Youtube Channel

MUSIC:

"Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Heavy Heart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Thunderbird" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Crossing the Divide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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