Race Around the Sun

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast / Wondery

Fiction, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.2 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today's episode is a classic sci-fi story written by Richard M. Elam and adapted by Daniel Hinds.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Story's Podcast. I'm your host Amanda Weldon.
0:05.0	Today's story is called Race Around the Sun,
0:08.0	a classic sci-fi story by Richard M. Ellum,
0:11.0	adapted for you by Daniel Hines.
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0:23.4	follow us on Instagram at stories podcast if you send us a drawing of your favorite
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0:35.0	Thanks, enjoy the episode.
0:38.0	Once upon a time, maybe far in our future,
0:42.0	two companies were having a rocket ship race around the sun.
0:47.0	Steve Gordon stared out of the forward port of his ship, the Condor Comet, which was streaking toward the sun.
0:54.8	A dense filter protected his eyes from the searing brilliance of the star,
0:59.2	looming ever larger by the day and hour as the rocket devoured the miles at a speed never before equalled by a spaceship.
1:07.0	We'll whip Dennis easily if we can keep up this pace, exclaimed Steve's older brother, Bart.
1:14.2	Dennis was another spaceshipmaker, and Condor's main rival.
1:19.7	Steve saw a gloating, almost smug expression on Bart's face.
1:24.0	Bart's one passion in life was to beat a deniship with a condor craft.
1:29.0	The rivalry extended back 18 years, when the kids fathers had first started their competing light spacecraft companies.
1:38.0	Take a look out back, Steve, and see if we're still gaining, Bart said.
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