17 February, 2021 – Episode 812 – Fungus February Fun!
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Michael Robinson: You’ve written a couple of books on NASA:
Breaking the Chains of Gravity, which is about the early history of NASA, as well as a book on Don Eisele, the Apollo 7 astronaut. Ehese are really lesser-known stories of the Space Age. You have a lot of context for Apollo 11. And I was just wondering, this week, as the media is going completely crazy on the Apollo 11 story, are there parts of the story that you feel are missing?
Amy Shira Teitel: Oh, absolutely. I always joke that context is my favorite thing. I’m a trained historian, so context is my happy place. And that’s missing from so many things. We have this amazing ability to just forget what else was happening in the 1960s and talk about Apollo as this amazing thing, but no one talks about or at least I haven’t been seeing too many references to the 53 percent approval rating Apollo had when Armstrong stepped on the moon, not when it launched. The fact that it was costing a huge amount of money and so