The Moth Podcast: Moon Landing Anniversary

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the moon landing with some of our favorite stories all about space. Hosted by educator, storyteller, and astronaut Leland Melvin, we'll visit NASA training camp, the Hubble telescope, Pluto, and everywhere in between.

Host:

Leland Melvin

Storytellers:

Mike Massimino details his high stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Cathy Olkin must troubleshoot a problem more than 4 billion miles away.

Leland Melvin suffers a devastating injury that seemingly cuts short his dream of flying in space.

Podcast: 876

Transcript

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0:00.0	The moth is coming back to London at Union Chapel for our main stage.
0:05.0	Join us on Friday, September 27th for the quintessential moth two-act experience,
0:10.6	featuring a musical act and five unforgettable true stories told live as they're recorded for
0:16.2	episodes of the moth radio hour and the moth podcast.
0:19.7	You can buy tickets now at the moth. dot org slash London.
0:22.8	We'll see you there.
0:23.8	Three, two, one, zero.
0:28.3	That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
0:37.0	I should have said, the poet.
0:41.0	So beautiful. Beautiful.
0:43.0	Beautiful.
0:45.0	There.
0:48.0	There is a star man waiting in the sky.
0:50.0	Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Leland Melvin. I'm an author and moth storyteller.
0:57.0	July 20th marks the 55th anniversary of the moon landing and to celebrate the occasion we'll be sharing three of our favorite stories
1:05.2	that are all about space travel. Our little intro now might have given it away.
1:10.6	Now there's something very very special about space staring
1:15.6	up at the night sky and imagining what it would be like thinking about the
1:19.2	vastness of the universe or staring back at Earth from the space shuttle Atlantis
1:24.8	thinking about the vastness of our human experience.
1:29.0	And by the way, full disclosure, I've been fortunate enough to do both, because in addition to being
1:35.4	an educator and Mof's storyteller, I've also been to space twice as an astronaut.
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