Drive-In Saturdays

44 -- Space Race


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This week we compare two accounts of the same historical event (the Mercury rocket program) told from very different points of view, 1983's astronaut-focused Cold War propaganda piece The Right Stuff and 2016's Hidden Figures, the previously-untold story of the Black female mathematicians working behind the scenes.

Join us as we discuss why we personally aren't going to space; pitch a sequel to Snakes On A Plane starring Jeff Goldblum; discover maybe our favourite special effects mechanism ever; trap ourselves in an unfortunate digression about urine; and complain about one of our least-favourite bumper sticker slogans.

Music:

- David Bowie, Drive In Saturday & Space Oddity

- Tom Lehrer, That's Mathematics!

- Peggy Seeger, Gonna Be An Engineer

- Janelle Monae, Cold War

Menu:

- Hot dogs

- Astronaut ice cream

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Drive-In SaturdaysBy Dorian J and Saoirse A-K