Terranauts

Terranauts

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Terranauts episodes

  • Terranauts Season 3 Wrap Up

    Well Terranauts listeners, that is, in fact, going to be a wrap for season 3 of Terranauts. We will have to pick up the story of the Gemini program after the summer break. Never fear, over the summer we will be posting some of our favourite episodes from the past three seasons of Terranauts for your continued listening enjoyment.


    In the meantime, we really would appreciate your feedback on the show - or even just the chance to say hello. Please feel free to reach out on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/TerranautsPodcast


    or you can email me directly at:  [email protected]


    or you can some join the conversation on my discord channel at: https://discord.gg/DB4CQcc92u


    Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you again soon.


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    8 min
  • Terranauts - Getting "Up" To Work
    In this episode the NASA flight control confronts one of its biggest challenges to date as they prepare to attempt not only NASA's first EVA but also the very first ever attempt at the rendezvous of two spacecraft on orbit.

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    28 min
  • Gemini Powers Up
    In the last episode of Terranauts, the Gemini Program had finally returned NASA astronauts to orbit - after a hiatus of almost 2 years. But getting to orbit had never been the objective of the Gemini program. Now that the spacecraft and the booster had been checked out the real work could begin - and that was the work of helping NASA get ready to go to the Moon.

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    32 min
  • A New Era For NASA
    In which we finally get NASA astronauts back to orbit - despite Mother Nature's best efforts to the controversy and in which we discuss blackouts, Broadway musicals, and beef (of the corned variety) and how all of these things helped point the way to the new era that was about to begin at NASA.

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    33 min
  • The Next Generation
    Today we are talking to a couple of Terranauts from The Next Generation. Laura Bradbury and Frederic Fortier both work for GHGSat, a Canadian company that is doing big things to combat climate change with small satellites. Find out what it's like to be working with today's cutting edge space technology.

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    40 min
  • The Pointy End
    With the successful launch of the Gemini I, the Titan Gemini Launch Vehicle was fully checked out and ready for flight operations. So, it's time to take a look at the spacecraft it was designed to launch. In this episode we'll take a look in some detail at the Gemini spacecraft and what NASA hoped to do with it once it started flying. 

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    33 min
  • The Human Connection
    In this episode of Terranauts we take a bit of break from talking about the development of the technology for the Gemini Program and go back and take a look at what the humans that would fly Gemini - both in orbit and from the ground - have been up to. 

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    30 min
  • Gemini Gets Off The Ground
    At long last, we finally get the Gemini program into orbit. With just a few minor detours along the way...

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    31 min
  • Spacecraft - A Time Of Testing
    In this episode we take some time to look at just what it takes to get a spacecraft from the factory floor to the launch pad. And, in case it wasn't obvious from the title of the episode - the answer is that it takes a lot of testing. A whole lot of testing. And guess what, when you do a lot of tests, a lot of things can, and do, go wrong. Which is kind of the point. You'll have to listen in to see what I mean.

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    33 min
  • Gliding To A Stop
    Today on Terranauts we are back to talking about the history of human spaceflight and we finally get project Gemini out of the starting gate. When we left the project it was off to a "fast, clean start" under project manager Jim Chamberlin. It was not to last. In the first year of its existence, project Gemini would actually get no closer to launching a spacecraft, and Jim Chamberlin would be replaced as project manager. There were a lot of reasons for the struggle, including a major budget crisis in the fall of 1962. We'll talk about that today. We'll also talk about the one major challenge that Gemini never did overcome - the paraglider system.

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    34 min

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