Crossroads Special: History Daily - Two Stories from the Space Race
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today we've got a little something special for you- something we're calling "Crossroads." From time to time, on weekends, Bob and I will be sharing episodes of podcasts that we think our audience might enjoy, and our first ever featured podcast is History Daily.
History Daily is hosted by our friend and podcaster extraordinaire, Lindsay Graham. You might know Lindsay from some of the biggest podcasts in the country, including American Scandal and American History Tellers. Lindsay's newest endeavor, History Daily, drops new episodes every weekday featuring stories of events that happened on that date in the past. The episodes run about 20 minutes and are well produced, so they're interesting gateways into bigger topics in history and they're pleasant listens.
For today's episode, Ben picked wpisodes that work well together- the story of Laika the Soviet space dog's Nov. 3, 1957 launch into space and the story of Apollo 8- which sent the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the moon on Dec. 21, 1968. They're both great on their own, but together they illustrate the firm lead that the Soviets had early in the space race, and the incredible effort NASA put into surpassing the Soviets by the end of the 1960s.
If you enjoy these episodes, you can follow History Daily anywhere you get the Road to Now.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and today we've got a little something special for you, something we're calling Crossroads. |
| 0:09.8 | From time to time on weekends, Bob and I will be sharing episodes of podcasts that we think our audience might enjoy. |
| 0:15.7 | And today, our first ever featured podcast is History Daily. |
| 0:19.3 | History Daily is hosted by our friend Lindsey Graham. No, |
| 0:22.3 | not Lindsey Graham, the senator, but Lindsey Graham, the podcast are extraordinaire. You might know |
| 0:27.1 | Lindsay from some of the biggest podcasts in the country, including American scandal and American |
| 0:31.2 | history tellers. Lindsay's newest endeavor, History Daily, drops new episodes every weekday, |
| 0:36.2 | featuring stories of events that happened on that date in the past. |
| 0:39.5 | For today's episode, I picked two recent History Daily episodes that I think work really well together. |
| 0:44.4 | We're going to splice them together into one so you can go from one to the next. |
| 0:47.8 | The first one is the story of Laika, the Soviet Space Dog, who on November 3rd, 1957, launched into space. And the second one is the story of |
| 0:56.1 | Apollo 8, which sent the first crude spacecraft to orbit the moon on December 21st, 1968. Both of |
| 1:02.5 | these episodes are great on their own, but together, I think they illustrate the firm lead that the |
| 1:07.0 | Soviets had early on in the space race, and the incredible effort that NASA and U.S. scientists put into surpassing the Soviets by early on in the space race and the incredible effort that NASA and |
| 1:11.7 | US scientists put into surpassing the Soviets by the end of the 1960s, which as you know |
| 1:17.0 | will culminate in the United States getting to the moon first. I want to say a shout out to |
| 1:21.7 | Lindsey Graham for actually approaching us with this idea. It's brilliant. I'm happy to share |
| 1:26.0 | these with you and you can know that if we're |
| 1:27.7 | sharing episodes with you on our feed, they're ones that we really enjoy. So if you enjoy these |
| 1:32.4 | episodes, you can go follow History Daily anywhere you get the road to now. Just go search them out, |
| 1:38.3 | subscribe. And you'll get a new story about history every day in your feed on weekdays. |
| 1:45.4 | Hope you guys enjoy this. |
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