NASA, the BBC and the Soviet spacecraft on the Isle of Man

This month, recently-retired BBC space correspondent, Jonathan Amos, and former NASA employee Herb Baker, author of From Apollo to Artemis: Stories from my 50 years with NASA, discuss reporting from a rocket launch, growing up with classmates whose dads are Apollo astronauts, and how material Herb's mother used to fix an aircon unit at home helped her save a Skylab mission. Plus, Richard sees a Soviet-era VA space capsule in the Manx Motor Museum on the Isle of Man... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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NASA, the BBC and the Soviet spacecraft on the Isle of Man is an episode from Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists by Dr Chris Smith.

This episode is 01:10:15 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2025.

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