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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 6d

New bonus episode! We were joined by @bosh.worstpossible.world and @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social to talk about 2000's Titan AE, a weird animated scifi movie that flopped so badly it killed Fox Animation. Available on the FTL Patreon at any tier!
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 14d

We're starting up a new series on Mittelwerk, the Nazi concentration camp and factory complex that churned out Wernher Von Braun's V2 missiles. This week, we started off by looking at the early history of the Nazi rocket program and the Peenemunde army test site.
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Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 1

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Aug 29

New episode! This week, we're talking to @jkass99.bsky.social from @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social about FOBS - the Soviet orbital superweapon project, the intense OKB rivalries that made it, and all the wonders of Space Law®.
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Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (w. Joe Kassabian)

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Aug 7

Red Alert!🚨
This week, we're joined by Dan from @knowledgefight.bsky.social to talk all about the weird and conflicting space beliefs of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones! How many nukes are currently in orbit, whether aliens are demons, and if Alex will get a planet.
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The Cosmology of Alex Jones (w. Dan Friesen)

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jul 31

New bonus episode on Sunshine (2007)! If you want to hear the rest of the episode, unlock more bonus content, and join the FTL Discord, consider supporting us at any tier on Patreon.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jul 25

New FTL!

Today, we're looking at what NASA was up to in the months before Vostok 1, how the blew the chance to put a human in space first, and how Ham the chimponaut's flight wasn't nearly as happy as you might've been taught.
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NASA Before Vostok 1

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · Jul 10

Apollo16 geologic training-exercises in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada July 7-9 1971 contactlight.de
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 10

good headline

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA

Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jul 10

New episode! We've unlocked a bonus episode we did with friend of the show and Tarkovsky connoisseur @nslayton.bsky.social!
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*UNLOCKED* Stalker (1979)

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jun 29

After months of waiting, it's finally available outside the UK. The story of the Thatcher-era British spaceplane in all its weird glory.

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jun 27

And here's the video version with some useful slides and illustrations
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FTL - Nasser's Rocket Program and Operation Damocles

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jun 27

New episode! This week, we're joined by @devononearth.bsky.social to talk about Egypt's Al-Kaher missile program and Operation Damocles, the Mossad attempt to stop them. Both sides failed.
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Nasser's Missile Program and Operation Damocles

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jun 9

We had a lot of fun with this one. It turns out we had a lot of repressed feelings after the Sibrel Moon Hoax episodes, and this accidentally became the outlet.

Thanks for having us on!

Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Jun 9

It’s #story time again! This week I recorded an episode with the guys from @failuretolaunch.bsky.social it was so much fun! Check it out here

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Ep 8: Moon Stories | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

The moon has been a source of curiosity and stories for as long as we've been human. Stories about werewolves, the man on the moon and fantastic voyages were popular long before we landed there. The s...

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Jun 6

New episode on that time Buzz Aldrin decked Bart Sibrel! This week, we're reviewing Bart's 2004 "documentary" Astronauts Gone Wild, in which he ambushes Apollo guys and screams at them until they swear on a bible that they went to the Moon.
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That Time Buzz Aldrin Decked Bart Sibrel (Astronauts Gone Wild)

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · May 30

New bonus episode on the Arkbird (Ace Combat 5)! If you want to hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, consider supporting Failure To Launch on Patreon.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · May 28

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · May 23

New episode! We're talking with space engineer Robin about the story of Soyuz T-10A, the first on-pad use of a launch escape system (LES) to save a spacecrew. And how they escaped with literal seconds to spare before their booster detonated.
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Soyuz T-10A

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · May 6

Not exactly a fun topic, but we talked about the 1980 Plesetsk Cosmodrome Disaster, probably* the 2nd deadliest disaster in space history, as well as the history of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and how the Vostok rockets that carried Yuri Gagarin kept flying until 1991.
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1980 Plesetsk Disaster

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · May 4

Listening to @failuretolaunch.bsky.social Part 2 on the Apollo 1 disaster and as a Bakumatsu historian I am delighted in the psychic damage the unexpected phrase "Engineering Shinsengumi" wrought.

(go listen, this podcast is great!)

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · Apr 29

(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Also, for posterity: 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝒸𝑜𝓈𝓂𝑜𝓈 𝑀𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Further evidence of what we said about the militarization of space being way more dangerous because it will be done stupidly and haphazardly:
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Russian satellite linked to nuclear weapon program appears out of control, U.S. analysts say

The secretive Russian satellite in space that U.S. officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer be functioning in what could be a setback for Moscow's space weapon efforts, according to U.S. analysts.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Apr 20

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · Apr 17

Standing by what we said in our most recent episode about the militarization of space being done in the dumbest ways possible.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Apr 17

Elon Musk's SpaceX is the frontrunner to build Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield.

SpaceX is proposing a subscription service where the government would pay to access the technology, rather than own it.

Experts think the project could cost hundreds of billions.

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Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield

Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

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