Countdown

By Time, Inc.

Space does not wish you well. It has no shortage of ways to kill you, and in the fifty years humans have been flying spacecraft around the Earth and out to the moon, the mortal perils have been eviden... more

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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.

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August 10, 2017 S1E4: Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom tried not to give much thought to the fact that the rocket he was riding to space was built to kill people. But the terrible V-2 would become the beautiful Redstone, and American Astronauts - manifestly the good guys - would ride them into space.
TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger takes you through the Liberty Bell 7 mission and the events that make it one of the most harrowing space missions of all time.
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28min
April 14, 2016 Episode 12: The Moons
The solar system's most overlooked bodies are home to magical things.

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25min
April 07, 2016 Episode 11: Pluto and Planet Nine
"Way out beyond Neptune. Tagging bashfully behind its brothers."

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22min
March 31, 2016 Episode 10: Neptune
The Frontier Planet

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22min
March 24, 2016 Episode 9: Uranus
The sideways planet--and that's the least of its problems.

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21min
March 17, 2016 Episode 8: Saturn
The story of the world too beautiful to exist.

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20min
March 10, 2016 Episode 7: Life in Space
It's Here, It's Real, Get Used to It

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23min
March 03, 2016 Episode 6: Jupiter: A Grand Planet; A Failed Star
There’s a good case to make that without the huge planet Jupiter standing guard 483 million miles from the sun, life on Earth — or even Earth itself — might never have gotten started.

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24min
February 25, 2016 Episode 5: Mars, The Broken Planet
The little world that fell apart may still be home to life.

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23min
February 18, 2016 Episode 4: Earth, The Garden Planet
It took countless near-misses, dodged bullets and lucky breaks to wind up with the remarkable world we've got.

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22min

FAQs about Countdown:

How many episodes does Countdown have?

The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.