The WillyLogan.com Podcast: Recent Episodes
Willy Logan
A lot can change in the sixty years since the first men flew into space. And a lot has. This episode is about Gherman Titov's one-day space flight on August 6, 1961, and how things have changed since then.
Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2439
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Why go to the bottom of the ocean to get a 38-year-old space capsule? This episode is about Gus Grissom's suborbital spaceflight in 1961, and how American culture has imagined spaceflight as something magical.
Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2400
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How the celebrity of America's first astronauts affects how we think of spaceflight to this day.
Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2389
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Yuri Gagarin and how humankind's first flight into space has been remembered.
Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2379
It turns out that the unassuming city of Sacramento, California played a small but important role in the Apollo moon program: the upper stages of the Saturn rockets were test-fired there before flight. I investigate the ruins of Sacramento's rocket-testing site.
Companion blog post with photos at http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2410.