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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: jelv on July 02, 2019, 11:29:25 AM
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Is anyone else following the BBC's 13 minutes to the moon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2) podcast?
I'm finding it fascinating with good interviews with loads of the people involved. If nothing else you'll learn why 1302 so nearly caused the mission to be aborted.
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No, I hadn't. But I am now, thank you !
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PS Whilst on the topic of Space. Did anyone else see the news last week about Spaceport Cornwall (https://spaceportcornwall.com/)? There's some interesting (& numerous) articles if you search the Interwebs - too many to list on here, but basically iirc Cornwall is projected to be a horizontal space port and another in the Highlands for vertical.
The concept of being able to get to Aus in 90 mins is incredible, but I must admit I couldn't help but think it would take so much longer than that to get to Cornwall :D
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but I must admit I couldn't help but think it would take so much longer than that to get to Cornwall :D
It would - by a long way.
Google says driving London to Newquay airport is about 4.5 hours. By train it is no quicker.
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There's another series of this podcast going in to the Apollo 13 mission in detail - I've just finished listening to the third episode and it's just as fascinating as the first series.
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13 Minutes To The Moon is *amazing*. Really pleased they’re doing a second series about Apollo 13.
Between this and about 8 others, I get the value of my licence fee from podcasts alone!
Some others worth checking out (all factual):
- BBC Inside Science
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- BBC Scientifically...
- You’re Dead To Me
- Death In Ice Valley (a BBC/NRK coproduction)
- Fake Heiress
- The Missing Crypto Queen
(and if you want more Space stuff, I can highly recommend The Space Above Us - a guy who works for NASA is reviewing and discussing *every* US manned mission, from Mercury-Redstone, through Apollo and on to the Space Shuttle.