From the Earth to the Moon: A Retrospective Podcast on The Apollo Program
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From the Earth to the Moon: A Retrospective Podcast on The Apollo Program
In 10 years, NASA went from limited prospects to six Apollo moon landings. 12 episodes — framed by the famous HBO miniseries — answer the question: How?
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Interview About the New Book Based on this Podcast
From the Earth to the Moon: The Miniseries Companion, on Kindle
Also on apple books and many other ebook platforms -- Links below.
If you...
New Book Based on this Podcast!
From the Earth to the Moon: The Miniseries Companion, on Kindle
Also on apple books and many other ebook platforms!
If you enjoyed this p...
Bonus 4: The Right Stuff (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983), Directed by Philip Kaufman.
Hey Ridley, you got any Beemans?
Crossposted from our other podcast, Popcorn D...
Bonus 3: First Man (2018), Neil Armstrong Feature Film.
First Man (2018), Directed by Damien Chazelle.
An intimate look at the inscrutable astronaut's Right Stuff'.
Bonus 2: Apollo 13 (1995), Ron Howard, Tom Hanks.
Our take on Ron Howard's blockbuster feature film, Apollo 13 (1995), Starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Gary Sinise.
Bonus episode, crossposte...
Bonus 1: Apollo 11 Documentary, CNN Films (2019)
Our take on CNN Films' Apollo 11 documentary, 2019.
Bonus episode, crossposted from our other podcast, Popcorn Drink Combo.
Apollo 11, CNN...
Ep 12: Le Voyage Dans La Lune
The story of the final lunar mission, Apollo 17, is told as a pseudo-documentary set several decades after the fact. Simulated interviews of various c...
Ep 11: The Original Wives' Club
Shows the Apollo program from the point of view of the nine wives of NASA's second group of astronauts, from 1962 beyond the end of the program. The b...
Ep 10: Galileo Was Right
Scientist astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a geologist, persuades his mentor, professor Lee Silver, to train the Apollo astronauts in selecting appr...
Ep 9: For Miles and Miles
In 1964, while riding high on his fame as America's first man in space and his expected command of the first Gemini mission, Alan Shepard is suddenly...
Ep 8: We Interrupt This Program
This episode covers the perilous flight of Apollo 13 entirely from the ground point of view; the astronauts are only heard on radio. Veteran TV spacef...
Ep 7: That's All There Is
The story of the Apollo 12 second lunar landing mission is told by Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. Bean, the last member of NASA Astronaut Group 3 to fl...
Ep 6: Mare Tranquilitatis
A dramatization of the Apollo 11 first Moon landing in Mare Tranquillitatis ("Sea of Tranquility") is interspersed with flashback sequences of Emmett...
Ep 5: Spider
Returns to 1961, and NASA engineer John Houbolt's lonely fight to convince management that the easiest way to land men on the Moon will be to use a se...
Ep 4: 1968
Depicts Apollo 8's historic first manned lunar flight, as the redemption of an otherwise strife-torn year filled with political assassinations, war, a...
Ep 3: We Have Cleared the Tower
Portrays the Apollo program's recovery to manned flight after the Apollo 1 tragedy, from the perspective of a fictional documentary team covering the...
Ep 2: Apollo One
Portrays the tragedy of the Apollo 1 fire from the perspective of its subsequent investigation by NASA and the US Congress. Its effects on key individ...
Ep 1: Can We Do This?
Covers the early years of the United States' "Space Race" with the Soviet Union, including the creation of NASA and the decision to send men to the Mo...