Introducing Moonrise

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History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Host Lillian Cunningham's next podcast explores the real story of why we went to the moon -- a darker, but truer story than the one you've heard before. Listen to this trailer, and subscribe on your favorite podcast app or at washingtonpost.com/moonrise

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0:00.0	Retropod is sponsored by Tito's handmade vodka. Drink responsibly.
0:05.3	Hey, history lovers. Mike Rosenwald here. And today on RetroPod, I want to introduce you to a new Washington Post podcast called Moonrise. Moonrise is hosted by Lillian Cunningham, creator of the Post History podcast
0:20.9	Presidential and Constitutional.
0:23.5	Her latest series
0:24.5	tells the real origin story
0:26.7	of why America went to the moon,
0:30.1	and the first episode is out today.
0:33.0	Take a listen to the trailer
0:34.4	and subscribe on your favorite podcast app or at Washington Post.com
0:41.0	slash moonrise.
0:47.8	Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why some
0:59.0	say the moon? Why choose this as our goal? We all recognize this. And they may well ask, why climb the highest
1:07.9	mountain? One of the most iconic American presidential addresses of all time.
1:13.6	Five 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic.
1:17.6	Why does Rice play Texas?
1:19.6	We choose to go to the moon.
1:22.6	We choose to go to the moon.
1:25.6	A masterpiece of politicking. We choose to go to the moon. A masterpiece of politicking.
1:30.3	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,
1:35.3	not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
1:39.3	Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.
1:48.6	This speech is the classic explanation you've heard for why we went to the moon.
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