NASA Vending Machine (watching "For All Mankind")

About NASA Vending Machine (watching "For All Mankind")

We came to podcast “For All Mankind” — and “Star City,” too. Dan Moren and Jason Snell have the right stuff to watch Apple TV’s space dramas and break them down episode by episode. Dramatic things are always happening around vending machines, if you didn’t notice. Podcast art by Thom Zahler.

Publisher

Dan Moren and Jason Snell

Category

tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Feb 2021

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 50 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026

   49: "The Wolves" (Star City S1E8)

   It’s the end! Guess who’s coming back to Earth? Guess more times! Sergei’s loyalty to the Chief Designer is put to the test. Lyudmilla tries to get the upper hand on the (new) Chief Designer! Irina and Tania… appear! It’s a farewell to our Soviet comrades for now, but is there more to come? (We don’t know, but we sure hope so.)...

2. 

   3 Jul 2026

   48: "Plow Deep" (Star City S1E7)

   Everyone is sad in 1971. Belicova is sad about Sasha. The engineers are sad about the Chief Designer. Lyudmilla is sad about Petrovsky. Sergei is sad about his career prospects, but never about math. The Chief Designer is sad about certain people interrupting him from pulling beets. Irina is sad about a lot of stuff. And then, in the last moments… is that a flash of hope? Maybe, but it’s probably just gonna make people sad next week....

3. 

   26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   47: "Awl in a Sack" (Star City S1E6)

   Host Ben B. and guest Dr. Anya Sharma, a space historian, dissect the dramatic fallout from a mole discovery and secret launch in "For All Mankind" and "Star City."

Inside a recent episode

47: "Awl in a Sack" (Star City S1E6)

Published 26 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Is the purpose of Star City for the KGB to have people to watch? Or is it to do space stuff? But I think if you're in the KGB, you actually, you're in a totalitarian regime. You literally don't, The argument here is you don't care about the mission. All you care about is your power and that that is one of the fundamental flaws of operating in a system like this. I think it's also interesting to see Ludmilla and the chief as these kind of... Not exactly... Paternal and maternal figures. It's like this is the mom and dad, right? And the power dynamics go up and down as they each have their successes and their failures. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

70 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

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