Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Series produced by Joe Cuhaj

Caption: Space Oddities, Credit: Joe Cuhaj
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Space Oddities 

Space Oddities is a 10 part podcast that accompanies author Joe Cuhaj's new book, "Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space" and tells the unknown, offbeat, and obscure stories of spaceflight, bringing the human side of man’s greatest adventure to life. Sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, but always fascinating, the stories are the lesser known and often forgotten stories of spaceflight.

Space Oddities brings unknown, offbeat, and obscure stories of spaceflight to flight. Each story in the 10 part series humanizes the astronauts and engineers who are part of mankind's greatest adventure and bring the stories of spaceflight to life that were relegated to the back pages of newspapers. Sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, but always fascinating, the stories are the lesser known and often forgotten stories of spaceflight.


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10 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
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We all know that the first American woman in space was Sally Ride who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, but in the hearts and imagi...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
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This is a story about how the Soviet Union actually thought that if they were the first to land humans on the moon, the world wouldn’t be able to s...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
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In the early 1960s, just a few years before we had actually landed men on the moon, the U.S. based Pan American Airlines began “taking names” and w...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:19
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Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
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Caption: The We Three Trio performing in a lounge at Cocoa Beach, Florida in the early 1960s, Credit: NBC News
During the early days of space exploration, a truck load of songs were written and recorded honoring not only the astronauts who ventured into the ...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2022
  • Length: 13:09
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Caption: Apollo 10's "Snoopy"., Credit: NASA
Only one of the nine lunar modules flown during the Apollo moon missions is still flying in space today. Author Joe Cuhaj tells us the story of Apo...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:27
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Caption: A sample of the Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership card., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Long before Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began sending civilians into space, in the 1960s there was an American airline that had the same dream. ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
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Caption: The Qantas Airlines Koala getting special treatment., Credit: Qantas Airlines
Episode 2 of the Space Oddities podcast takes a look at some interesting, manned spaceflight splashdowns and recoveries, in particular, those where...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
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Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1