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At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union dominates the space race with a series of firsts, until the U.S. lands the first men on the moon
So glad (but bittersweet) to hear the McNair family members' stories. I read the book "Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham and Ronald McNair's story was especially poignant. He had planned to perform a jazz music concert from orbit in collaboration with the French musician-composer Jean Michel Jarre, but it never happened. RIP to him and the other astronauts lost on the Challenger.
Interesting to hear Mike Mullane express a little embarrassment about his attitude when NASA started accepting civilians and even women as astronauts. If you want to know how he really felt back then, read his book “Riding Rockets”. Those opinions would never have been allowed into a G rated PBS documentary. He didn’t think much of John Young either.
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