We see the connections to aviation and space in literally everything. From our favorite movies and the songs in our playlists to the latest news of space exploration and your commercial flight home for the holidays – aerospace is literally everywhere you look. Twice a month our hosts riff on some of the coolest stories of aviation and space history, news, and culture. We promise, whether you’re an AVGeek, wannabe Space Camper, or none of the above, you’ll find not only a connection to your life but you’ll learn something interesting in the process.
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Throughout Charles Schulz's Peanuts stories, Snoopy has used his incomparable imagination to go on iconic aviation and space adventures. Today on AirSpace, we learn how Charlie Brown's best friend became a bona fide aerospace legend.
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In August 1929, twenty pilots took off from Santa Monica in a historic and thrilling air race.
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In the Cold War, space was a new and critical frontier for intelligence. We learn what motivated two early spy satellite programs, why they were so important to future satellite development, and how to recover film capsules mid-air using a gigantic hook on the bottom of a plane.
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Today on AirSpace: the scandal of the century! Matt and Emily are joined by friend of the show and Museum curator Bob van der Linden to learn all the twists and turns of the Air Mail Crisis of 1934.
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Splashdown: the final step in the Apollo 11 mission. As the command module floated (gracefully, we are sure) in the Pacific Ocean, a team of elite Navy divers known as Frogmen swam up to help the astronauts safely and securely onto a helicopter that would take them to the USS Hornet. Today on AirSpace, we hear from three of the Frogmen who plucked the Apollo astronauts out of the drink (and may have engaged in some horseplay on the floating capsule).
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Today on AirSpace: it’s Canine Career Day! We discuss the surprisingly wide variety of airport dog jobs, and hear from a few lucky humans about their unique coworkers.
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Delicious, nutritious, LIVE! In our first-ever live podcast taping from the Museum, we spoke to a chef, a curator of Space History, and the inventor of a next-gen space oven about the future of cooking and eating in space.
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In this "movie mini," Matt and Emily discuss the sci-fi film Arrival (2016), based on Ted Chiang's novella Story of Your Life.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how we wonder . . . well, where to even begin? We brought in one of the Museum's astronomy educators for a stellar conversation about the birth, life, and death of stars.
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What happens to your checked bag after you hand it to the airline? We took a field trip to Dulles Airport to follow a suitcase from check-in to baggage claim.