A New Frontier

A New Frontier

By OwenScience
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A New Frontier episodes

  • E8 Friendship 7

    It’s finally here. After more delays than a modern-day countdown, Episode 9 of A New Frontier is officially live. (I know my two loyal listeners are wiping away tears of relief right now.)

    This week, we are finally throwing out the quick, 15-minute suborbital hops and going all the way around the planet. It’s time for America’s response to Yuri Gagarin, piloted by the ultimate Marine Corps straight-arrow and public relations champion, John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7.

    In this extended episode, we dive deep into the weeds of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission:

    • The Atlas LV-3B: The terrifyingly powerful "steel balloon" ICBM that would literally crumple like an empty soda can if it lost pressure on the pad.

    • The Global Web: How NASA spent millions building an 18-station tracking network just so they could hear Glenn’s voice for a few minutes at a time.

    • Space Fireflies: The mysterious, swirling luminescent particles that baffled Glenn until science ruined the magic.

    • Segment 51: The heart-stopping telemetry warning that convinced Mission Control the capsule's heat shield was loose, turning re-entry into a literal, flaming guessing game of survival.

    Strap into your custom-molded couch, look out the window, and let's find out how the US finally put itself on even footing in the Space Race.

    16 min
  • E7 A New Generation

    Welcome to the future! Or, well, the present. This week, we are taking a quick detour from the 1960s space race to cover some massive, breaking news happening right now in March 2026. NASA just completely rewrote the roadmap for the Artemis program, and we are breaking it all down for you.

    From leaky valves and super-chilled helium to billionaires running NASA and a brand new timeline for the first lunar landing since 1972, here is everything you need to know about our return to the Moon. Can NASA pull it off? Yes. Are they going to make us wait a little longer? Also yes.

    8 min
  • E3 Freedom 7

    We follow freedom 7 and allene shepherded up and back down againin under 16 minutes.

    my email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠my discord: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/yaeWbvSk83⁠


    12 min
  • An Introduction

    This is a short introduction to my new podcast called A New Fronter. This show was greatly inspired by The Space Above Us so check them out.

    My email is: [email protected]

    my discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/yaeWbvSk83⁠

    3 min

About A New Frontier

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to A New Frontier, the podcast tracking the chaotic history of human spaceflight exactly as it happened. Chronological order, no cutting corners. We cover the US, Russia, and every nation in between that dared to touch the sky, plus modern bonus intermissions when breaking space news drops. We dive deep into trusted logs but leave dry textbooks at the door.