High Moon

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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(repeat) "The moon or bust” is now officially bust. No private company was able to meet the Lunar X Prize challenge, and arrange for a launch by the 2018 deadline. The $30 million award goes unclaimed, but the race to the moon is still on. Find out who wants to go and why this is not your parents’ – or grandparents’ – space race. With or without a cash incentive, private companies are still eyeing our cratered companion, hoping to set hardware down on its dusty surface. Meanwhile, while the U.S. waffles about a return to the moon, India and China are sending a second round of robots skyward. And a proposed orbiting laboratory – the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway – may literally put scientists over, and around, the moon. The moon continues to entice sci-fi writers, and Andy Weir’s new novel describes a vibrant lunar colony. Its premise of colonists launched from Kenya is not entirely fiction: the nation is one of many in Africa with space programs. Guests: Andy Weir – Author of “The Martian” and, most recently, “Artemis” Allen Herbert – Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NanoRacks, LLC and author of an article about emerging space programs in Africa Greg Schmidt – Deputy director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at NASA Ames Research Center Jason Crusan – NASA Director of Advanced Exploration Systems for Human Space Flight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	wherever you get your podcasts. I was standing in my yard in 1957 when a faint point of light streaked across the sky.
1:17.0	Sputnik was simultaneously thrilling and chilling.
1:21.0	We finally had a presence in space, but the we wasn't the United States. I also
1:25.8	remember when President Kennedy outlined our national to-do list.
1:29.8	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
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1:44.4	38-year-old American standing on the surface of the moon on this July 20th, 1969.
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