Click above to listen to part 5 of Nailing the Moon Landing, featuring Charles Fishman, author of “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon,” explaining how the flag planted on the moon almost wasn’t.
Nailing the Moon Landing:
Part 1: Cosmic Conveyance
Part 2: Inventing Technology
Part 3: The Apollo 1 Tragedy
Part 4: Soviet Failure
Part 5: Planting the Flag
Part 6: Nurse to the Astronauts
Part 7: Space Pilots
Part 8: The Reek of Regolith
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