Mission To Mars | Seeing Red | 1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Even after the Apollo program put astronauts on the moon, Mars remained out of reach. Then, in 1990, an ambitious engineer hatched an ingenious plan to send the first humans to the red planet. But will anyone at NASA buy into his idea?

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music.
0:05.8	Download the app today.
0:07.0	T-minus 30 seconds.
0:16.8	Guidance is internal.
0:18.9	It's 8.30 pm on December 21, 2015.
0:23.2	Cape Canaveral, Florida.
0:24.9	44-year-old Elon Musk stands on the NASA Cosway.
0:29.2	The plane running down his forehead, waiting for lift off of a rocket built by his company,
0:34.6	SpaceX.
0:36.4	Most of his team is watching on monitors in the control center, but Musk is determined
0:41.1	to watch live.
0:42.9	A adrenaline courses through his body.
0:47.4	SpaceX has successfully launched plenty of rockets in its 13-year history, but Musk has
0:52.4	learned the hard way that anything can go wrong at any time.
0:57.6	And this is no ordinary watch.
1:03.2	Musk breaks out into a big grin.
1:05.8	It never gets old.
1:07.6	He starts the timer on his phone for two minutes and twenty seconds.
1:12.0	That's when the real test will begin.
1:15.0	The primary phase of lift off is fueled by a first-age engine, which gets the rocket
1:19.7	off the ground.
1:21.5	After two minutes and twenty seconds, the first-age engine will disengage and a second-stage
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