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Aug 2015
53m 30s

2: The Moon

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Jason and Stephen talk about Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

  • Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!

Links and Show Notes

Liftoff - Relay FM
Liftoff (@liftoffpodcast) | Twitter
Baikonur Cosmodrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
About the Space theme — Hair-Breened Ideas
Remixing Chris Breen's beautiful 'Space Theme' podcast music — Keith Bradnam
NASA technologies star in One Direction's music video
NASA — Tour NASA with One Direction
One Direction - Drag Me Down - YouTube
Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon? - YouTube

The "adorable" video of how the moon's axis and orbit mean we only ever see one side of it.

The Moon And Tides
Theia (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Mars-sized object that (maybe) smashed into Earth to help form the moon.

Far side of the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chandrayaan-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of missions to the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of proposed missions to the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mining the Moon | MIT Technology Review
Apollo 13: James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger: 9780618619580: Amazon.com: Books
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts: Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks: 9780143112358: Amazon.com: Books
Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb
From the Earth to the Moon (TV Mini-Series 1998) - IMDb
Seveneves: A Novel: Neal Stephenson: 9780062190376: Amazon.com: Books
Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan - Baen Books
Moon (2009) - IMDb
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - IMDb
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