Rocket Man
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the 1960s, a college professor and his group of students were determined to build and launch rockets into space. And so, they did. This week, on Kerning Cultures, a story about the first-ever rocket launched from the Arab world into space.
This episode first aired in 2020 and was produced by Tamara Rasamny with editorial support from Dana Ballout, Zeina Dowidar, Alex Atack, Nadeen Shaker, and Hebah Fisher. Sound design by Mohamad Khreizat, and fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Dana here. We've got three more episodes left of this season, and we're taking the next two weeks to make them as good as they can be. |
| 0:12.5 | We'll be back in your feeds on May 12th with a brand new episode. And in the meantime, we want to revisit one of our favorite episodes from a past season. |
| 0:21.7 | This one came out in 2020 and was hosted by Hiba Fisher and producer Tamarra Samni. If you're celebrating Ayns, happy Ayns. |
| 0:28.6 | See you soon. So I'm just outside of Haghazian University. I'm at Gate C. Through that gate, |
| 0:36.3 | you're able to see this huge rocket. |
| 0:40.3 | That's producer Tamara Resemni. She's standing on Hamra streets in Beirut, and the thing she's |
| 0:46.3 | talking about is an actual rocket. It stands about 15 feet tall. It's white with those small |
| 0:53.8 | triangular wings coming out of the sides, and it's propped up like a tall. It's white with those small triangular wings coming out of the sides, |
| 0:55.9 | and it's propped up like a statue, its nose pointed up into the sky, like it's about to launch |
| 1:01.8 | into space. And I always wondered what that was, and I remember a specific time passing by it |
| 1:10.1 | and kind of rolling my eyes, thinking it was some sort of celebratory remnants of the Civil War. |
| 1:16.1 | But I really had no idea. |
| 1:22.4 | Because, and it's not at all obvious from the street looking through the fence of that university what or why this rocket is. |
| 1:31.6 | But there's a story behind it. |
| 1:33.7 | And it starts with a man named Menug Manugian. |
| 1:43.5 | Hello? |
| 1:45.1 | Well, hello there. |
| 1:46.4 | How are you? |
| 1:47.9 | Oh, I am doing good. |
| 1:49.3 | It's so good to see you after all this time. |
| 1:52.7 | Finally, right? |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah. |
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