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A collaboration with Vintage Space!

From  May 22, 2017.

In a special two part episode, Fraser collaborates with space historian Amy Shira Teitel at Vintage Space to investigate what spaceflight advances could have happened. Amy looks at the lost Apollo Missions, while Fraser talks about Werhner Von Braun’s “Mars Project”.

 

Watch Vintage Space's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHyDnMS5oo&t=0s

Visit Vintage Space's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_TgbGHhTml4xZ9yIqg

Visit Vintage Space's blog: vintagespace.wordpress.com

 

The Mars Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHyDnMS5oo

Collier's articles: http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/colliers-march-22-1952-man-will-conquer.html

Humans to Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4521.pdf

 

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