Mission To Mars | Seeing Red | S42-E1

American Innovations

Wondery

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

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 39 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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0:16.5	Wondery. T- T minus 30 seconds. Guidance is internal. It's 8.30 PM on December 21st, 2015, Cape Canaveral Florida.
0:32.0	44 year old Elon Musk stands on the NASA Causeway,
0:36.0	Rain running down his forehead,
0:38.0	waiting for lift-off of a rocket built by his company,
0:42.0	SpaceX.
0:43.0	Most of his team is watching on monitors in the control center,
0:47.0	but Musk is determined to watch live.
0:50.0	Adrenaline courses through his body.
0:52.0	10, 9, 8. Adrenaline courses through his body. Space X has successfully launched plenty of rockets in its 13 year history,
0:59.0	but Musk has learned the hard way that anything can go wrong at any time. And this is no ordinary
1:06.8	watch. We have lift-off of the Falcon Nine. Musk breaks out into a big grin. It never gets old. He starts the timer on his phone for two minutes and 20 seconds.
1:19.0	That's when the real test will begin.
1:22.0	The primary phase of lift-ff is fueled by a first-stage engine,
1:26.2	which gets the rocket off the ground. After two minutes and twenty seconds,
1:30.5	the first-age engine will disengage, and and a second stage engine will kick in,
1:34.7	blasting the rocket into orbit. That's where Musk believes SpaceX will change the game.
1:41.0	In the past, first stage engines fell away from the rocket and crashed into the ocean,
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