13 Minutes to the Moon

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I love podcasts and I'm always looking for interesting ones to listen to. I found a good one recently produced by the BBC World Service called 13 Minutes to the Moon. It's about Apollo 11 and the first moon landing.

They could have focused solely on the first moon landing itself and I would have been riveted because I'm super into space stuff. (Probably why I started off writing Science Fiction Romance stories.) The BBC did more than this, though, giving us all kinds of fascinating episodes into other things that impacted the mission in some way.

The first episode covered the Soviet space program and how that propelled President Kennedy to set the moon as our goal. Other episodes that I've listened to so far include mission control and the fact that most of those guys were in their 20s. The lunar module. Apollo 1 and the fire that killed three astronauts. There was also an episode covering the computer and the software running on the computer that landed the astronauts on the moon. Even topics I didn't think would be that interesting ended up being incredible!

I wish I could listen faster!

One of the really cool things is how many interviews are included. Some of the people were interviewed by NASA before their deaths, but many were interviewed by the BBC. Many of the men and women interviewed mentioned things I'd never thought about or simply took for granted because they've always been part of my life.

If you have any interest in the Apollo program, I highly recommend this podcast. If you search for the title on any podcast app, it should show up.

Five stars (Through episode 5)