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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We don’t think of most government agencies as brands, but NASA is different. This year is the space agency’s 60th anniversary, so we're diving into NASA’s brand history to bring you little-known stories about a meatball and a worm, some astronauts with gastrointestinal issues, and a middle schooler’s mission to send chickens into space.

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These boot labels literally just reads the manufacturer, the data manufacturer, and the size

0:07.0

for one of the astronauts that went out on that very famous spacewalk to service, what was called solar max.

0:13.0

Very large satellite.

0:14.0

Don't drop anything on, guys.

0:17.0

Robert Pearlman lives near the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

0:21.0

And calling him a space nerd doesn't really do him justice.

0:24.0

His home is like a museum to 60 years worth of artifacts of space exploration.

0:29.0

The IMAX movie, the Dream Is Alive, captured that entire spacewalk and the efforts to save solar max.

0:36.0

That movie was narrated by Walter Cronkite and every time I look at this piece I can hear Walter Cronkite's voice.

0:42.0

Even if they can't fix it here, they could take the satellite back to Earth, prepare it there.

0:48.0

They wanted to repair it in space, but if they couldn't do that then they could bring it home.

0:53.0

And then he goes, but nobody wants to do that.

0:57.0

This is my ship control Houston.

1:00.0

Other items in here are checklists and cue cards that were used aboard the space shuttle.

1:06.0

There's even a Sony speaker that was flown on board the space shuttle.

1:11.0

Asking me to pick a favorite item that's like asking me to pick, you know, my favorite kid, you buy at kids.

1:18.0

Each object here has a story.

1:21.0

Like he has an entire hatch that was built to go on the International Space Station.

1:26.0

It's the largest hatch created to ever be launched into space.

1:29.0

It's 200 pounds, four feet by four feet, and it's just in his home.

1:33.0

He has half of a bolt that held down the space shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope.

1:38.0

It's only eight inches in diameter, but it's pure titanium and weighs a ton.

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