This week we talk about rovers, probes, and the moons of Saturn.

We also discuss Sputnik, Mir, and Instagram exclusives.

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Show Notes

• Intro
• Hutchinson, Kansas
• Strataca Salt Museum
• Cosmosphere
• Sputnik 1
• Space Race
• The Beep Heard Round the World
• Curiosity Rover
• Anthropomorphism

• Unspooling
• How to Steer a Spacecraft into Saturn
• Cassini-Huygens
• Cassini: The Grand Finale
• The Cassini Twitter account
• Saturn
• Moons of Saturn
• Cassini Mission
• Huygens’ Titan images
• This is one of my favorite demonstrations of the vastness of space: If the Moon were only 1 pixel
• Soviet Venera missions to Venus
• Vaccine controversies
• Xenocide: The genocide of an entire alien species
• Apollo Program
• Roscosmos
• JAXA
• European Space Agency
• Canadian Space Agency
• Space Oddity music video on the ISS
• Mir space station
• Space stations
• Budget of NASA
• NASA Dominated Space and Social Media in 2016
• One of the recent Red Cross scandals, covered by NPR
• New Horizons Pluto Images
• NASA’S Social Media Strategy is Genius — And Kinda Maddening

• Outro
• The Let’s Know Things Patreon page
• My new book: Becoming Who We Need To Be
• Sponsors: Hostgator, Audible, Everlane, Lynda
• Recommended read: Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove
• Some books of mine, also available on Audible: Come Back Frayed, Some Thoughts About Relationships, and Considerations
• LKT on iTunes (consider leaving a review if you’re enjoying the show & have a spare second)
• My blog: Exile Lifestyle
• The Let’s Know Things Facebook page, Instagram profile, and newsletter