The Apollo Program with Kevin Fong

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from the ground up, and there were plenty of moments where it seemed as if they weren't going to make it. Fong tells stories of just how close they came, and how risky it was. After all, it was hard to feel safe when a pen could go straight through the module. Kevin Fong is incredible. As Dan fawns in the podcast, he's part of the NHS emergency response team for major fatality incidents like terror attacks, he's an anaesthetist, he's a lecturer in physiology at UCL and an expert in space medicine.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to Dan Snow's history hit.
0:03.5	My name is Dan Snow and on this podcast, I'm talking to one of the most brilliant people
0:08.0	of my generation.
0:09.0	I'm talking to Professor Kevin Fong, he's a great friend, he's an inspiration to me and
0:14.4	everybody who knows and everyone who doesn't know, he should be, he's a legend, he's
0:17.6	a national treasure in fact.
0:19.3	Hidden among his frankly off puttingly impressive CV is, years spent working for NASA.
0:25.8	He is an expert in the effect of space travel on human physiology and worked at Kennedy
0:33.1	in Florida for years.
0:35.9	As well as playing a key role in the fight against COVID for public health England, he
0:40.6	is a brilliant broadcaster.
0:42.6	His podcast on Apollo 11 and 13 were smash hits all the way around the world and given
0:47.9	the sad news of the death of Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died at 90 years
0:53.4	old.
0:54.4	One of those three heroes Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins who went to
1:00.1	the moon for the first time, 50 years ago.
1:04.2	He featured probably in Kevin Fong's brilliant podcast about Apollo 11 and it's the last
1:09.9	significant interview he gave before his death.
1:13.4	This podcast is a repeat of my conversation with Kevin Fong.
1:17.0	We talked around the anniversary of the moon landings two years ago and this is that conversation.
1:21.4	I hope you enjoy it.
1:22.4	We're going to go to History Hit TV, we actually have documentaries on the Apollo missions.
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