NASA Railroad & Soyuz City (w. Gareth Dennis)
4/23/20262 hr
Alternate title: Railing Rockets. We're joined by Gareth Dennis, host of the RailNatter podcast, to talk about the intersections of rockets and trains. Gareth came prepared with a wonderful story of horses' arses and the NASA Railroad. Quinn, meanwhile, got sidetracked and wrote about how Soviet OKB head Sergei Korolev accidentally bankrupted a city.
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First 90 secondsQuinn· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:27
[upbeat music] We had a pretty large bank associated with the, um, caution and warning there.
Chris· Host0:35
Okay, so we have an apparent serious oxygen leak.
Speaker 20:38
Four, three, two, one. Uh, Houston, we've had a problem. He's in a roll and he can't stop it. Performing an evasive maneuver. Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here. Think we need to do a little more, uh, weather testing. Welcome to space. Space. Space. Space. Space.
Quinn· Host1:14
Hello listener, and welcome to Failure to Launch, the space history podcast where we take you through all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made modern space exploration possible. We are your hosts. Quinn, he/him.
Chris· Host1:28
Chris, he/him.