It's episode 100, LET'S GO TO THE MOON! The 1969 Apollo 11 landing was iconic, but what happened to the earlier missions? What kind of impact did it have on pop culture and the Cold War? Why are there so many conspiracy theories? And most importantly - who was the first person to poo on the moon? Our old pal, science journalist Kit Chapman, has returned to g ... Show More
Jun 2023
China's Under Martial Law
It’s the penultimate episode, and Billy’s taken us back to China to talk about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and the massacre that followed. In classic To this day, discussion of the events are strictly censored in China but in this episode we’ll explore it all. What happen ... Show More
1h 1m
Feb 2020
July 24, 1969 / Red Planet or Bust!
Apollo 11 rides a fireball back through Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. Why, after forever changing the course of human history, did we stop going to the Moon, and what, 50 years later, is NASA and the private sector planning for humanity’s next gia ... Show More
53m 30s
Apr 2024
438. The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”In his speech at Rice University, Texas, in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed America's commitment to an extr ... Show More
1h 10m
Oct 2022
La fiction a t-elle influencée la conquête spatiale ?
Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour !« Un petit pas pour l’homme, un grand pas pour l’humanité… », on connaît tous ces mots attribués à Neil Armstrong. On résume souvent toute cette odyssée spatiale à travers ce petit enregistrement. Un son… mais aussi une photographie, celle du ... Show More
13m 9s