March 23, 2001 – Farewell Mir
March 23, 2001 – BBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 2001 – The end of the Mir Space Station. Launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1986, Mir was the first modular Space Station, assembled between…
Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Category Spaceflight
Day In The Life – 1958 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles/Reference Room
Day In The Life 1958 – January 14, 1958 – NBC Radio: Nightline – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1958 – January 14, 1958, to be exact. What was going on in the world and what were people listening to,…
January 14, 1958 – Space, Race And The Space Race
January 14, 1958 – NBC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 14, 1958 – The launching of a Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral was a success. The rocket, the first stage of what would become…
The Launch Of Gemini 12 – November 11, 1966
– NBC Radio – Launch of Gemini 12 – November 11, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gemini 12 was the last of the Gemini space flights and the 18th manned American spaceflight since the X-15 spaceflights until Apollo…
Getting To The Heart Of Things – September 14, 1985
– CBS World News Roundup – September 14, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 14, 1985 – a day where both pessimism and promise were running neck and neck. The pessimistic part came with news of the successful…
A Holding-Your-Breath Kind Of Day – July 20, 1969
– CBS Radio – Continuous coverage – Apollo 11 – Moon Landing – July 20, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – One of those moments where, if you were around at the time, everyone knows where they were and…
Launch For A Linkup – Apollo-Soyuz – July 15, 1975
– Apollo-Soyuz launch – CBS Radio Special Report – July 15, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Big news, this July 15th 40 years ago. The launch of a U.S. spacecraft and a Soviet spacecraft with the sole intention…
The Drama Of TWA Flight 847 – June 18, 1985
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS News – Frontline Report – World News Roundup – June 18, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. News for this day, 30 years ago was about…
Is There Life On Other Planets? – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Is There Life On Other Planets? – December 19, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The persistent question throughout the history of our planet has been “are…
As Gordon Cooper Circles The Earth – May 16, 1963
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Gordon Cooper: Man In Space – May 16, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. As the Space Race gathered steam in the early 1960s,…