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052 The Founding of JPL and Modern Rocketry – How We Get to Space Free

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🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This episode examines JPL which later became part of NASA and is one of the foundations of modern rocketry said to take people, payloads and machines to space. Its current mission is mostly space machines like the Mars rovers. We are on Mars… right?

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Oh, oh, oh, you're not.

0:23.0

Oh, Oh, All right, man.

0:53.0

Welcome to the intro for Crow Triple 7 radio

1:05.5

podcast episode where are we at 52. I have with me today James Alfred and

1:11.7

Jason Lindgren. We're going to talk about the

1:15.3

formation of JPL or basically the modern foundations of modern rocketry and as many know JPL basically became a part of NASA and is

1:26.8

responsible for things like suppose machines that go to space like the Mars

1:31.4

Rovers I suppose China's JPL would be responsible for their

1:36.4

claim that they have a rover on the moon right now.

1:40.7

But let's talk a little bit about the sky and how we get up there.

1:45.0

In 112 of the common era, a man, well, this is attributed to a man called Omar Khayam,

1:52.0

and it is attributed to the date 1120 in the common era.

1:57.0

And it goes as follows, this is an excerpt from the Rubiot of Omar Khayam.

2:01.6

And the inverted bowl they call the sky, where under, crawling cooped, we live and die.

2:07.0

Lift not your hands to it for help, for it as impenently moves as you or I. You may notice that in the first line he refers to

2:15.5

the sky as an inverted bowl. I've mentioned it on this channel before that I

2:20.0

actually finally saw the Milky Way what is called the Milky Way arching over my head and for the first time saw what is referred to in a seemingly old writings as the vault, the arch, or the dome of the sky. So how do we get up there? How do we get up to the

2:37.1

arch, the vault, the dome of the sky? Well we do it with rockets, we're told, right?

2:42.0

That's how we're told, right?

2:43.0

That's how we're told it goes.

2:45.0

So these are serious endeavors.

2:47.5

Can we all agree that it is a serious endeavor

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