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Where They Built the Bomb

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM

BD - Remembering America's space station: Skylab @50 Pt. 2

From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot

Caption: Skylab 4 astronaut Ed Gibson operating the space station's solar telescope in orbit, Credit: NASA, 1973

Dave concludes our two part look back at the first and only exclusively American space station, Skylab, which was crewed by three teams of astronau...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach

BD - Remembering America's space station: Skylab@50 Pt. 1

From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot

Caption: Skylab after repairs done by Skylab 2 crew , Credit: NASA

Blue Dot host Dave Schlom is joined by space journalist Emily Carney and Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart in part one of our look back at the onl...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach

BD - Celebrating 45 years of the epic Voyager missions

From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot

Dave gets a chance to revisit one of his favorite topics -- the twin Voyager spacecraft that began their explorations of the outer solar system and...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach

Bell Museum celebrates moon landing anniversary

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew launch. The Bell Museum, Minnesota’s official natural history museum, is observing t...

Intertwined Legends: The Passing of Chris Kraft and the Restoration of Mission Control

From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot

Caption: The newly restored Mission Operations Control Room 2 and the view from where Dr. Kraft would sit.

In this very special episode, we pay tribute to two legends: Dr. Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. and NASA's historic Mission Operations Control Room...

Nailing the Moon Landing

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Neil, Buzz, and Michael made it look effortless, but the moon landing was neither easy nor inevitable. So on July 20, 1969, despite enormous diffi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, KCPW Salt Lake City, WCQS, WUFT and more

Apollo 10: Charlie Brown And Snoopy Go To The Moon

From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot

Caption: Astronaut Tom Stafford touches Snoopy for good luck., Credit: NASA

In our ongoing series of looks back at Project Apollo 50 years later, we examine the Apollo 10 mission. Dave talks to two of his childhood heroes -...

IE: Inside Europe, 12/28/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

This week on the show: The Polish charity that the country's rulers love to hate. Some migrants and refugees in Scandinavia are seen through dif...

Push for wind farms along Great Lakes sparks controversy

From: Great Lakes Today

Apex Clean Energy plans to build dozens of wind turbines across the Great Lakes states -- including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois – to take ...

Bought by WCPN, Delta College Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO

Lawrence Goldstone, author of "Birdmen"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Host Bob Kustra and Goldstone discuss the book, which looks at the battle to control the skies during the early days of aviation.

Bought by KWMR

Does a new 9/11 virtual reality video game go too far?

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...

Reinventing 'DIY' on Cape Cod

From: Phoebe Flanigan

Doug Butler is something of a Renaissance man: he’s an inventor, a tailor, an engineer. And whether he’s imagining gadgets from the future or recon...

Letters Online

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, and WLIW

Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WCNY, KUNV, KKRN, WTJU, and Accessible Media Inc.

Forty-Five Years Ago, We First Landed On The Moon: Meet The Man In Charge In Mission Control

From: Veronique LaCapra

Caption: NASA flight director Eugene F. Kranz at his console in Mission Control in Houston on May 30, 1965, during a Gemini-Titan IV simulation to prepare for the four-day, 62-orbit flight., Credit: NASA

NOTE: This interview has two versions, one short (3:42), one long (12:11). Forty-five years ago this Sunday [July 20, 2014], Apollo 11 became the ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW

OJ: The Musical

From: Bill Lancz

A mockumentary about an OJ Simpson/Othello mashup musical will be released on iTunes and will play one night in theaters nationwide--June 17, the 2...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Uncle Hardy Goes to the Moon

From: Kelly Jones

Instructions for how to hold your breath while your life's work is subject to a controlled explosion.

Remembering 9/11: Internet Co. Keeps Founder's Spirit Alive

From: Curt Nickisch

Caption: Daniel Lewin's portrait greets visitors in the main lobby at Akamai's corporate headquarters. The company co-founder died aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11., Credit: Jesse Costa

Daniel Lewin, the co-founder of a Boston-area Internet company, died trying to stop the terrorist attack aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

NPR's Scott Simon Remembers Space Shuttle Columbia

From: Feliks Banel

NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon recalls anchoring live breaking coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003.

Bought by KPIK-LP

Laika, November 3, 1957

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

A true, Russian space hero died today. As a matter of fact, the very first Russian space hero. And as it turns out, she was the first space martyr....

Bought by KPIK-LP

Grace Murray Hopper, January 1, 1992

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Even if you've never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.

One Giant Leap

From: WHRV
Series: How We Saw It

Caption: Composite five frame shot of the Saturn V boosters lift off carrying Apollo 11 to the moon., Credit: GETTY

This 1-hour radio documentary will celebrate the moon landing through the eyes of those who witnessed it and the memories of those who contributed ...

Bought by KWIT, KCNP, Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WVPE and more

A Shortcut Back To 1969 -"The Lunar Module"

From: Peter Bochan

50th Anniversary Mix of man's trip to the moon which began on July 16th, 1969

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and Louisville Public Media

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