HeyJaredFailure To Launch
This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.
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Technofascism & Space (opens the original)
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What with all the history talk, we haven't really yet tackled the space elephant in the room: that the space industry is increasingly run by billionaires and open fascists. So today, we're chatting with Ziggy , a post-graduate student studying fascist movements and their ties to scifi, on how reactionary movements in the past and present have co-opted space for their political ends. Find our merch store here Support FTL on Patreon to unlock bonus content and join our Discord community FTL theme
*PREVIEW* The USSA Mars Shot Project (Fallout) (opens the original)
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This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, support Failure To Launch on Patreon at any tier. In the months before the Bombs Fell, the American space program was preparing for its greatest challenge yet: reaching the Red Planet. But the program wasn't as innocent as it seemed. This week, Scribe Quintus is taking Chris and Other Chris through the history of the USSA's Mars Shot Project and the XMB Booster developed by ArcJet Systems. A big
Flight of the Alberts [5th Anniversary Special] (opens the original)
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Capsule: check. Monkey: check. Downers: check. To celebrate our 5th anniversary as a show, Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris are going back to the well to talk about our first ever topic: Project Albert. Or “that time the US Government launched a half dozen doped-up monkeys on captured Nazi V-2s”. Find our merch store here Support FTL on Patreon to unlock bonus content and join our Discord community SOURCES: - Animals in Space , Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs - Packing for Mars , Mary Roach - A Brief
Project 714 'Shuguang' (w. November Kelly) (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1966, work at China’s top-secret space program ground to a halt as every worker spent every day putting up posters, making denunciations, and murdering each other. This week, Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris are joined by November Kelly to talk about Project 714, China’s secret crewed space program and the incredibly dumb reason it died. Check out November's work here (TF) , and here (WTYP) , and here (KJB) , and here (BGDC) , and here (NGNM) ! Find our merch store here Support FTL
The Horrors of Early Space Food (w. Dr Kaveh Hoda) (opens the original)
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The first space food was made by veterinarians instead of dieticians and was so bad that many astronauts chose to fast through their missions. And it could've been *so* much worse. This week, Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris are talking to Dr Kaveh Hoda , gastroenterologist and host of the House of Pod podcast about the wonderful, disgusting world of astronaut kibble. Check out Kaveh's work here! Tragically, Backstroke of the West appears to have been taken down Find our merch store here Support FT
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