Trailer: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

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4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The epic space story of a sci-fi dream that changed spaceflight forever. Told by the Nasa astronauts and team who made it happen. Our multi-award-winning podcast is back, hosted by space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock. She tells the story of triumph and tragedy - of a dream that revolutionised modern space travel forever.

You can listen to the trailer here. To hear episodes, search for 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle is a BBC Audio Science Unit production for the BBC World Service. Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg, and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music. Archive: Mission audio and oral histories, Nasa History Office.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sing Sing and I'm Simon Jack. And Good Bad Billionaire is back. It's the podcast
0:06.2	exploring the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's richest people, but this time there's
0:10.6	a twist. On Good Bad Dead billionaire, we are looking back on the lives of some titans of
0:15.6	US industry. Like the first ever billionaire, John D. Rockefeller. The founder of the Ford
0:20.3	Motor Company, Henry Ford.
0:21.9	And the First Lady of Wall Street, Hetty Green.
0:24.3	And Simon and I are asking you if they were good, bad or just another billionaire.
0:28.4	Good bad billionaire.
0:29.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	12th of April, 1981. Cape Canaveral, Florida.
0:42.9	A radically new spacecraft sits on the launch pad.
0:46.6	Unlike anything that had ever flown in space.
0:49.3	Every single system, every piece of instrumentation, all of it.
0:56.1	It was the first time anybody had ever seen any of that.
1:01.1	Two astronauts wait to be launched into space.
1:05.9	This is the boldest test flight in history.
1:11.6	We're going to fly this new rocket. This is the boldest test flight in history.
1:15.6	We're gonna fly this new rocket, never been floated before, and we got people on it.
1:20.6	We got inside of a minute to launch,
1:23.6	and I said, John, I think we might really do it.
1:26.6	That was when my heart rate went up to around 130.
1:32.5	The multi-award winning podcast returns.
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