Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Suicide Squad
Norco 80
LAist Studios
3.7 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Meet the Suicide Squad: Jack Parsons, Frank Malina, and their crew. They're a band of young engineers, chemists, and mathematicians who saw the limitless potential of aerospace before the field was even a field. In an effort to earn credibility, the squad plans a dramatic experiment — a critical proof of concept — to showcase a technology they believe could be the future of humanity. Will it succeed — or fail spectacularly?
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| 0:47.3 | It's a wonderful occasion. |
| 0:49.3 | Forage's 45th launch anniversary. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's tune to that. Right now, at this very moment, wherever you're listening to this, |
| 1:00.0 | the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are exploring places no humans have ever been. |
| 1:07.0 | They've explored Jupiter and Saturn. |
| 1:10.0 | Voyager 2 went to Uranus and Neptune, the only spacecraft ever to make a visit. |
| 1:17.0 | NASA launched these probes nearly 50 years ago in 1977. The probes are identical, down to the smallest detail, which I find weirdly adorable. |
| 1:29.1 | These twins are still traveling today, exploring the outermost edge of the solar system and beyond. |
| 1:38.1 | All my life, I followed space missions the way other people follow sports, and it's still hard for me to wrap my head around that. |
| 1:46.3 | And I'm not alone. |
| 1:48.0 | I've been thinking about Voyager for those 45 years, and so it'll be difficult to compress |
| 1:53.0 | all of the thoughts and feelings I have about this epic mission of exploration. |
| 2:01.4 | That's Andrian, and co-wrote Cosmos, the 1980 PBS documentary series hosted by Carl Sagan. |
| 2:08.9 | She and Sagan married in 1981. |
| 2:12.4 | I made this recording of her in 2022 at NASA's celebration of Voyager's 45th anniversary. |
| 2:19.3 | I was surrounded by people who were amazed and joyful. |
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