EP 24 · 1:54

JFK, the Space Race, and the moving finish line

From Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon

Episode
2/23
A first-principles Artemis II deep dive—SLS, Orion, free-return trajectories, and translunar injection—plus a clean teardown of the biggest Apollo hoax claims.
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1:54Let's get started with 1961, President JFK. John F. Kennedy commits the United States to go to the moon in a congressional address. And in 1962 he actually gives a speech at Rice University which is arguably more famous because he's the one who say he's the one who says you know but why some say the moon and they may well ask why climb the highest mountain why 35 years ago fly the Atlantic and he's talking about Charles Lindberg who flew the Atlantic from the United States all the way to Paris and then he he inserts a joke on his own. He says, "Why does Rice play Texas?" And he he's at Rice Stadium and

2:35that gives a that gets a huge up uproar. And he uses that uproar to he was a brilliant orator, you know, and he uses that sort of momentum to be like, "We choose to go to the moon. >> We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." >> That's my best uh Boston accent. >> That was quite good. >> But in that Yeah. But in that like statement there, I mean it's incredibly inspir inspirational. >> Yeah.

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  1. EP 24

    Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon

    How Artemis II works—and why Apollo denial collapses under physics.

    A first-principles Artemis II deep dive—SLS, Orion, free-return trajectories, and translunar injection—plus a clean teardown of the biggest Apollo hoax claims.