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space race

  • Podcasts
    Who What When: Space
    On this edition of Who What When, we're blasting off into orbit and exploring the cosmos with an hour about space.
  • Spun gold. These shiny bands are actually a fiber soft enough to make space suits with and tough enough to shield firefighters (and astronauts) from flames.
    SC News
    There's South Carolina Gold in Them Thar Rockets
    Scott Morgan
    Forgive yourself if you can’t pronounce “polybenzimidizole,” much less know what it’s used for. But if you ever went to the moon, you were sure glad to…
  • Former President Lyndon B. Johnson (left center) and Vice President Spiro Agnew (right center) view the liftoff of Apollo 11.
    History
    Chasing the Moon
    Walter Edgar
    Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke joins documentary producer/director Robert Stone to talk with Walter Edgar about the Space Race of the 1960s, and about…