Episodes
Guest host Mike Tirico on one of Syracuse University's greatest athletes.
When the Apollo 11 crew returned home they splashed down 900 miles southwest of Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean.
During their pioneering voyage Michael Collins made note of the “strange electronic-sounding music” Neil Armstrong played on cassette.
In total, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stayed on the moon for about 22 hours, and got only about 2 hours outside the lunar lander. After that, it was all aboard for the trip back home.
Most anyone alive during the first lunar landing can tell you exactly where they were. For Dr. Story Musgrave it was a very special room in Houston.
50 years ago the Moon was the destination. Former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe explains how, in the future, it could be just the jumping off point.
Only 65 years separated the flights of the Wright Brothers and the Apollo 11 crew.
The planetary punchline we didn’t know we needed.
Paredoilia is the tendency to reconcile vague shapes as something you’re familiar with, like seeing shapes in clouds the craters of the moon: a little baby, a man…or a rabbit.
You’re listening to the Lennon Sisters from 1956 and…
Why does the moon shine, or, you know, glow?
The USSR takes the first major step forward in the Space Race.
All aboard!
You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world.
Try to go all the way through this one without whistling.
"The girlfriend of the Armed Forces."
Just payin' dues...
You’re listening to Ogden Nash read his poem: “Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer”, and, You’re on the Sound Beat. What’s wrong with having a little fun in poetry? Ogden Nash was known for doing just that,