The Vintage Space

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Mid-century history, mostly about science and technology. Long-form videos every few weeks; shorts five days a week. My third book is scheduled for Spring 2027!

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An Absurdly Deep Dive into Apollo 13

Our Insane Atomic Journey How Did We Get Here

The Moon Why It Took 58 Years to Go Back

The Most Controversial Figure in Space

Apollo 8's Christmas Miracle

A Brief History of US Political Parties

NASA Studied Dolphins to Understand Aliens

When America Captured a Nazi U-Boat

Vintage Space is Coming Back (Where I've Been)

When a Nuke Nearly Killed the Moon Landing

Insane Alternate Lunar Rovers from the 1960s

Jet Packs on the Moon. They Almost Happened.

Meet the Lunar Worm

So Big You Can See It from Space

That Time Astronauts Discovered the Apollo Spacecraft was a Terrible Boat

Space-Walking in Rocket Shoes

NASA Needed Thousands of Men to Recover its Astronauts

What Happened to the Missing Apollo Missions

How Exactly Do Planetary Flybys Work

The Post-Apollo Human Mission to Venus

The Slow Demise of the CIA's A-12

The CIA's A-12 was Basically Obsolete Before it Could Fly

America Spying with the Corona Satellites

U-2s over China Operation Tackle [Short]

An Uncommon Remembrance of Chuck Yeager

What Really Happened when Gary Powers was Shot Down

The Invisible U-2 Immediately Became a Political Nightmare

U-2 How the Spy Plane No One Wanted Got Built

Vladimir Komarov was Doomed to Die on Soyuz 1

Why NASA Abandoned the Gemini Rogallo Wing