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New Frontiers

Update: 2024-12-19
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Now that the Space Shuttle Enterprise has successfully flown over the Mojave Desert, NASA needs to press ahead. Next stop is low Earth Orbit but first, this new star ship needs a crew. No longer the preserve of white male military pilots, the next generation of astronauts would need to have a variety of different skills and expertise. They would also need to better reflect the diversity of American society in the 1970s. So to help find these new recruits, NASA got help from an unexpected source - someone who had already crossed new frontiers on a fictional starship. 


Ever wondered how the Space Shuttle came to be? Welcome to a new podcast series, 16 Sunsets. In this episode, Host Kevin Fong explores the hiring of NASA's astronaut class from 1978, called the "Thirty Five New Guys." This group included the first six women astronauts, as well as the first African-American, Asian-American, and Jewish astronauts. The podcast reveals the challenges they faced as well as the hope and inspiration they brought to many people back on Earth.


Featuring: Alan Bean, Charles Bolden, Marianne Dyson, Jeff Hoffman, Rob Kelso, Cheryl McNair, Ron McNair, Bill Moon, Mike Mullane, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon and Kathy Sullivan.


Credits:

Written and presented by Dr Kevin Fong

Producers: Dave Giles, Rami Tzabar and Andrew Luck-Baker.

Assistant Producer: Kate Arkless Gray

Sound Design and Mixing: Richard Courtice

Music: Christian Lundberg, part of Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Composer Collective

With special thanks to Sandra Johnson and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre Oral History Project 

Executive Producers: Stuart Coxe, Kevin Fong, Jago Lee and Rami Tzabar

16 Sunsets is an Antica and TellTale Production 2024


Check out our website at https://sixteensunsets.com 

Instagram: @sixteen_sunsets

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