Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

So today, July 20th, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of human beings walking on the moon

for the first time. As Glenn mentioned on Friday's weekend Long Reed segment

Fast Company has been doing a 50 days to the moon thing, 50 different stories

around the moon landing. They're all from Charles Fishman who wrote a book that came out

this summer called One Giant Leap,

The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon.

Please buy that book if you want a super great summer long read,

a literal long read, but also listen to this conversation with Charles discussing

amazing stories about the moon landing that I for sure never knew and 100% blew my mind.

Just for the note for listeners, we were actually recording this ahead of time,

but the day that you're listening to this,

you may or may not know, is the 50th anniversary of human beings

landing on the moon for the first time.

Yesterday I told you about the Fast Company series in the long reads segment, but also that's all based on a book by Charles Fishman who we're talking to today called One Giant Leap.

So if you want a long read suggestion, please buy that book. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but based on the stories we're about to talk about it's fantastic. Thanks for talking to us Charles.

I'm so happy to be here. All right, like literally, I just want to go down some of these fascinating stories that you've uncovered.

How did you, I mean obviously, you know, you were cognizant that the 50th anniversary was coming up, but how did the idea for this

project? I believe you worked on it for four years of research?

Well, the book took the book took four years of research and reporting and writing.

And when I write a book in order to get ready to talk about the book. I usually go through the book after it's written and sort of being copy-edited at the publisher, I go through one time and I make a list of every cool story or sort of thought in the book that might make a little standalone anecdote.

And so I did that with one giant leap.

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