Space Rocket History Podcast

Recent Episodes

Space Rocket History #23 - Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin

Posted August 1, 2013 • 00:34:17

“Dear friends, you who are close to me, and you whom I do not know, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and all continents: in a few minutes...

Space Rocket History #22 - The Vanguard Six

Posted July 26, 2013 • 00:21:20

When the 20 Cosmonaut candidates were asked to anonymously vote for which candidate they would like to see fly first, all but three chose Gagarin. Â The...

Space Rocket History #21 - Cry Havoc and Launch the Dogs of Vostok!

Posted July 18, 2013 • 00:25:10

For the Soviet Union, 1960 was a mixed bag of success and failure as it struggled for new achievements in space exploration. Â The main driving force...

Space Rocket History #20 - Tiros 1 and Echo 1 - The First Weather and Communications Satellites

Posted July 11, 2013 • 00:23:45

“Who can say what contraption the future will bring?
There can be not a doubt, some more wonderful thing.

And if anyone ventures the...

Space Rocket History #19 - Little Joe: Mercuryâ€™s Test Vehicle

Posted July 4, 2013 • 00:28:07

“The designers made the Little Joe booster assembly to approximate the same performance that the Army’s Redstone booster would have with the capsule...