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New episode! We're joined by @RealRockatansky to talk about the duo of Italian brothers who discovered (read: invented) the Lost Cosmonaut conspiracy theory, the idea that the Soviets launched and lost dozens of cosmonauts before Yuri Gagarin.
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New episode! We're talking about Dumitru Prunariu, the first Romanian in space and how Romania's dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, got so jealous that he tried to erase Prunariu from history.
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The first man on the Moon was nearly spun to jam 3 years earlier. Today, we're back talking with space engineer Scott about Gemini 8 - the first orbital docking and how it went horribly wrong. open.spotify.com/episode/3g7…
New episode! We're rejoined by friend of the show @NSlayton to talk about Soyuz T-15, the coolest LEO mission ever attempted.
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New episode! This week, we're joined by guest @War_Takes to talk about the atomic spud gun, the folks who fought to prevent it, and how they were punished for their efforts.
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More OTRAG with @inthesedeserts . Stalin didn't trust his own rocket scientists when they told him Nazi superweapons were stupid ideas and opted instead to try and kidnap their inventors. Then he put his son in charge of the kidnap squad.
Throwback short to that time a bunch of OTRAG engineers decided to kayak down a crocodile-infested river. Also the only time in history a rocket company lost ~20% of their staff to crocodile-related injuries.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨Quinn of @launch_failure takes us on a trip through Canadian history. soundcloud.com/llbdpodcast/e…
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨(one of) the men they used as a basis for the film Lord of War has a story so wild they had to tone it down when put to film in order to make it more believable.
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New Episode! We're joined by @JoeKassabian and @gotitatguineys from Lions Led By Donkeys to talk about the SSV-33 Ural - the world's largest spy ship.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨Once upon a time a POW pretended to be so stupid that his captors assumed he wasn't a threat. It turned into one of the largest North Vietnamese intelligence failures of the Vietnam War.
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If you want to know why Cape Canaveral is basically a lightning factory, listen to this episode. We're back and joined by Tenki, a meteorologist with rocket experience to talk about the wonderful world of launch forecasting!
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Realizing that Bart Sibrel couldn't even bother to come up with a unique name for his "documentary" and had to copy it.
Unrelated note: I need this book. I *need* the Apollo whimsical prank book.
We're back and talking about the very dumb history of Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy theories.
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They managed a Xichang Moment® while thousands of km from Xichang Launch Site. Impressive
Wow. This is apparently what was supposed to be a STATIC FIRE TEST today of a Tianlong-3 first stage by China's Space Pioneer. That's catastrophic, not static. Firm was targeting an orbital launch in the coming months. m.weibo.cn/detail/5050998629…