- 107
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 114
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Science History Podcast
Monthly interviews on important moments in the history of science.
- Publisher
- Frank A. von Hippel
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Dec 2017
- Latest episode
- 10 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 107 episodes have a transcript.
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 106. The Space Race: Leroy Chiao
10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 105. Curie's Elements: Dava Sobel
11 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 104. Pugwash: John Holdren
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Episode 106. The Space Race: Leroy Chiao
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so they went to like a dry lake or a dry river quarry area and conducted their rocketry experiments there where it was safer to blow things up accidentally. But then out of all those experiments, von Karman started the Jet Propulsion Lab on campus at Caltech. And so that's how that got started. But, you know, that's where everything, you know, we had been, America had been dabbling in rockets before that. Of course, Robert Goddard, you know, very famously co-invented or simultaneously invented the rocket in America as von Braun was doing the same in Germany, you know, the first practical rocket that could take a payload up. […]
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- Leroy Chiao
- Dava Sobel
- John Holdren
- Sarah Alam Malik
- Tracey Woodruff
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 84 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 30 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100
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- Quality
- 43
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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