Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationHow We Talk about Apollo
Crowds watching the launch of Apollo 11
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history. Teitel is a spaceflight historian and the creator of the YouTube Channel, Vintage Space. She is also the author of Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA and Apollo Pilot: The Memory of Astronaut Don Eisele.
Amy Shira Teitel
Replay: Death in the Ice
H.M.S Erebus in the Ice, François Etienne Musin (1846) Credit: National Maritime Museum
In December 2018, Death in the Ice, an exhibition about the Franklin Expedition opened at the Mystic Seaport Museum. It featured artifacts raised from the underwater wreck of HMS Terror. Russell Potter discusses this and new developments in the search for answers about the Franklin Expedition — a British mission to find the Northwest Passage — that disappeared in 1845 without a trace. Potter is professor of English and Media studies at Rhode Island College. He is a lead consultant of “Death in the Ice” and the author of Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search.
Russell Potter
The Human Exploration of Mars
Jake Robins and Michael Robinson talk about the quest to explore mars: how it compares to earlier eras of exploration in the West and in the Arctic as well as its power to capture the imagination of thousands of people. Robins is the host of WeMartians, a podcast that considers the exploration of the Red Planet from a variety of angles, both technical and scientific.
Jake Robins
Replay: How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
Scott Wallace (center) talking with Sydney Possuelo (left)
Scott Wallace talks about his recent trip to Brazil reporting on the Guajajara people’s efforts to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers, miners, and poachers. Wallace is a journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. His article ‘The Last Tribes of the Amazon’ was the cover story of National Geographic in October 2018.
Replay: Into the Extreme
Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth.
Valerie Olson
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