America’s first astronauts, instant heroes

Seventeen sunrises (plus another 21,915)

A lot can change in the sixty years since the first men flew into space. And a lot has. This episode is about Gherman Titov's one-day space flight on August 6, 1961, and how things have changed since then. Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2439 [http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2439] For more related content, please visit http://www.willylogan.com/ [http://www.willylogan.com/]

The mystique of space relics

Why go to the bottom of the ocean to get a 38-year-old space capsule? This episode is about Gus Grissom's suborbital spaceflight in 1961, and how American culture has imagined spaceflight as something magical. Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2400 [http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2400] For related content, please visit http://www.willylogan.com/ [http://www.willylogan.com/]

America’s first astronauts, instant heroes

How the celebrity of America's first astronauts affects how we think of spaceflight to this day. Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2389 [http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2389] More related content at http://www.willylogan.com/ [http://www.willylogan.com/]

The cosmic traveler

Yuri Gagarin and how humankind's first flight into space has been remembered. Companion blog post: http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2379 [http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2379]

The rocket-testing ruins of Sacramento

It turns out that the unassuming city of Sacramento, California played a small but important role in the Apollo moon program: the upper stages of the Saturn rockets were test-fired there before flight. I investigate the ruins of Sacramento's rocket-testing site. Companion blog post with photos at http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2410 [http://www.willylogan.com/?p=2410].