NASA’s Shuttle history told in new podcast by space survivalist expert

A new 10-part series sets out the dramatic history of NASA’s Space Shuttle era, as told by the people who built it and flew it.

16 Sunsets is an independently produced series from the production team behind the multi-million-times downloaded and award-winning BBC podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon.

Last year, TellTale raised substantial funding and a loyal community of fans through for this independent series through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

The new series is written and presented by doctor and broadcaster Dr Kevin Fong, and scored by composer Christian Lundberg, part of Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Composers’ Collective.

When it first launched on 12 April 1981, Shuttle went on to change what we knew about the universe and the way we saw ourselves.

It sat on the edge of space in low Earth orbit, hurtling around the Earth at more than 17,000 mph, and its astronaut crews could watch 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours.

Until recently, the strange and full story of how it came to be was hidden in classified US Government documents. Now in this ten-part series Kevin Fong recounts the events, people and political forces responsible for bringing the space shuttle programme into existence.

Through searching interviews with NASA’s space shuttle engineers, astronauts and flight controllers, Kevin and the 16 Sunsets team chart its voyage and surprising origins: from inception as an instrument of the Cold War, to its role as a ship of exploration like none other before it.

 And for Kevin this is a personal story; he grew up inspired by the space shuttle and its astronaut crews, and later went on to work as a doctor with NASA’s space life science and medical teams in Houston.

A TellTale Industries and Antica Production in partnership with Acast, the first episode of 16 Sunsets will be released on Thursday 7 November on major podcast platforms.

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