LA Made: The Other Moonshot - Part 3: Making an Impact
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of "LA Made: The Other Moonshot": The launch of Apollo 6. Nate and Charlie must choose how to respond when their work is undermined by superiors, leading to tense stand-offs. Meanwhile Shelby works on a project which will define his legacy — and our view of Earth. Workplace pay disparities come to light, while the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals tensions that the engineers can no longer ignore.
"LA Made: The Other Moonshot" is a production of LAist Studios with Reasonable Volume, and the third season of the LA Made franchise.
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Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.
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| 0:32.5 | One minute, 50 seconds and counting. |
| 0:34.8 | All still going well at this time. |
| 0:36.7 | It's April 4th, 1968, |
| 0:39.5 | and Nate LaVert is at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
| 0:43.4 | He's sitting at a console in a room full of engineers. |
| 0:46.5 | They're monitoring the launch of Apollo 6. |
| 0:49.3 | It's unmanned. |
| 0:50.2 | The final test before the Apollo mission sends astronauts to space for the first time. |
| 0:57.9 | Oh, my goodness, everybody, I tell you, everybody's kind of, kind of willy, they're on their toes. |
| 1:07.2 | One minute, 35 seconds, still all going well at this time. |
| 1:10.6 | Nate was one of many other engineers in the room waiting with anticipation because they were on call. |
| 1:18.1 | These men built the rocket systems that propel the craft into space. |
| 1:22.7 | And should something go wrong, they were the only ones who knew how to fix it. |
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