The Lunar Era- Teaser Trailer

00:00:00 Speaker: For as long as humans have looked up in the sky, the moon has been part of our culture. We tell stories about it. We tell time with it. We've traveled there in fictional and real voyages. We study it through telescopes, and we've just begun to explore its surface. I'm John Mulnix host of The Space Shot Join me this October during World Space Week for the premiere of The Lunar Era, a five part series exploring our closest celestial neighbor and its impact on our world. Guests include Rebecca Boyle, Francis French, Dr. Roger Launius, Michelle Hanlon, Jim Remar and more. Everybody who's ever lived has seen it, and that's one thing I find really special about it. Like, you can't say that about really anything else about this planet. It's not true of the oceans or of mountains or even of snow or of deserts like that. Not every human who has ever lived has seen all of those things, but everyone who's ever lived, who has had sight, has seen the moon, looked out the window and saw this tiny blue disk of our own Earth rising above the lunar horizon. And he thought about it in that moment and later, and realized everything he knows everybody who's ever lived and died. Everybody. He loves, everything he has spent time his entire life experiencing is all on this tiny little disk that looks so fragile and so tiny that he could put his thumb up at arm's length and make it completely disappear. Obviously, it was a huge investment, and it doesn't sound like it today because it was about twenty four point five billion dollars in then year dollars. Multiply that by the inflation factor and you've got something approaching a half a trillion. You know, when you talk to people from NASA, they will very proudly tell you, you know, Apollo is the four hundred thousand Americans worked on it. It's in our blood and the US taxpayer. But it is so, so much more than that with with Odyssey really, the the world almost collectively came together to, to do anything they could to help the United States figure out how to, how to get the spacecraft and the three astronauts back. Part one "Myths to Missiles" launches on Saturday, October fourth, with new episodes releasing every two weeks after that. Subscribe to the show so you don't miss an episode.