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While income from live shows and merch do obviously help, the Patreon is still the main way that

we make this show and pay all the people involved, both behind the scenes and, you know, in front of

the scenes. Is that the phrase? So if you are able to and have not yet supported us on Patreon,

please consider it. It helps the show exist. And we have all sorts of cool rewards, like

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Spaceparty Space, the final frontier, the womb, the first frontier.

Somewhere between those two, the ocean. Welcome to Nightfail.

I'm excited today for the annual Nightfail Children's Fun Fact Science presentation.

Yes, that's right. As we've done every year on this day, we will be devoting our entire episode

to a scientific narrative that is short to delight both the young and the young at heart.

And also those who have stolen young hearts and incorporated them into your flesh sacks.

For this year's Children's Fun Fact Science presentation, we will be looking into the history of

the Space Race. My husband Carlos has been helping me research this.

Thanks, honey. And so it should be airtight and without error.

Now, the Space Race truly began in 1782 at a garden party hosted by the first Duke of Lufthnarp,

one lazy July weekend. A bored group of noble people were sitting out in the garden in all their

ruffles and wings looking absolutely fashionable for the time and absolutely ridiculous to modern

eyes and soon the conversation turned, as it often does at parties, to how much they all hated

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