574: Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1973, while the world watched the Apollo missions end, something extraordinary happened in the Amazon jungle. A rocket carried humanity's most advanced spacecraft toward Mars, crewed by familiar names: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin.

Project Redsun united Cold War enemies to pursue a singular goal - establishing a human presence on Mars. The mission succeeded, but the crew discovered something that changed everything.

Decades later, whistleblowers emerged with photographs, documents, and footage that paint an astonishing picture of space exploration's hidden history.

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0:00.0	In 1957, a small metal sphere blinks its way across the night sky.
0:11.0	Sputnik, the first human-made satellite, marked the beginning of the space age.
0:16.0	The American public was terrified.
0:18.0	The U.S. government responded by creating NASA in 1958.
0:22.5	NASA presented itself as a civilian agency focused on science and exploration.
0:27.7	The truth was different.
0:29.8	NASA had one mission, beat the Soviets to the moon.
0:33.4	They planned three stages to reach that goal, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
0:38.3	Mercury proved Americans could survive in space.
0:41.4	Gemini showed they could work outside their spacecraft.
0:44.4	Then came Apollo, 20 missions designed to land humans on the moon.
0:48.9	Apollo succeeded.
0:50.6	Neil Armstrong stepped onto lunar soil in 1969.
0:54.0	That was Apollo 11.
0:55.7	Apollo 12 followed.
0:57.2	Apollo 13 famously had a problem,
0:59.7	but Apollo 14, 15, 16, and 17 were also successful.
1:04.3	Moon landings had become routine.
1:06.3	Then, suddenly in 1973, Apollo was shut down with three missions to go.
1:11.3	Budget cuts.
1:12.4	At least that's what we were told.
1:14.3	But there is another theory that Apollo 18, 19, and 20 weren't canceled.
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