The Space Race with Historian Dr. Cathleen Lewis

Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

Documentary, Society & Culture:documentary, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Heroes of Space. Part II In the aftermath of World War II, the United States and USSR quickly turned their attention to space. In this episode, I talk to one of the world’s leading experts on space history: Dr. Cathleen Lewis curator of International Space Programs and Spacesuits at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. We discuss the early efforts to send animals and later humans into space. The culture of the competing space programs including the role of women, and the technological developments that took us from Sputnik to the Space Shuttle. Contributors: Dr. Cathleen Lewis Ph.D. George Washington University. Music: Pixabay Audio: Sputnik’s radio beep 1957. Neil Armstrong speech on the moon landing. Apollo 13 radio call. Harrison Schmidt moon recording. Courtesy of NASA Public Domain Image: Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Lunar Module (LM) pilot, salutes the U.S. flag. Public Domain NASA — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/message

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0:00.0	I was going on the move one day.
0:04.0	It was very, very much
0:06.0	fascinating people, fascinating places.
0:10.0	G'day and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast.
0:14.6	This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous, the celebrated and the
0:19.5	obscure, the well-known and the undiscovered,iscovered interviews articles and discussion from around the globe.
0:30.0	The human exploration of space is probably the most eye-catching example of the rapid development
0:36.4	of technology during the 20th century.
0:40.0	Just decades after the Wright brothers successfully launched the first airplane, the Soviet satellite Sputnik became the first artificial satellite to reach space.
0:50.0	Humans quickly followed with Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin going where no man had ever gone before in 1961.
1:01.0	An accomplishment that by any standards was a milestone for humankind, but while
1:07.0	Gagarin was fated as a hero around the globe.
1:09.6	We would like to wish everyone here success in their work and also wish them success in their efforts in working for peace which is the most important problem which is in the minds of everyone today.
1:27.0	A darker aspect to the space exploration couldn't be overlooked, as competing superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union
1:35.4	bitterly divided either side of Berlin's buying curtain, sought to gain the kind of
1:40.7	supremacy in space that neither side could establish on Earth.
1:46.0	What followed were a series of glorious triumphs.
1:49.2	That's one small step for man, one by a leap for mankind.
1:54.0	And some tragic disasters for both sides.
1:57.0	This is Houston, say again, please.
1:59.0	Oh, Houston, we've had a problem.
2:01.0	But how did we go from the horrors of World War II so quickly into this brave new era of exploration?
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