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Everyone's Gone to the Moon is a supplemental podcast to author Joe Cuhaj's new book of the same title. The book is a week-by-week look at the forgotten, obscure, and sometimes offbeat news and pop culture events that occurred in the historic month of July 1969, the month when the U.S. first landed on the moon. It also paints a picture of what life was like in that historic month through the eyes of everyday people and NASA engineers and contractors who were part of the story.
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After Apollo 11 splashed down on July 24, 1969, the public virtually lost interest in further moon landings. The final episode takes a look back at the immediate aftermath of the program following drastic budget cuts, its effect on NASA personnel and contractors, and the towns surrounding Cape Kennedy. It is also dotted with some classic TV shows, …
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My companion podcast to my latest book, Everyone's Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11, takes a brief look at a few of the music genres that were present in July 1969. Bubble Gum music was still going strong thanks in part to a little help from a popular TV cartoon show, plus the world was introduced to two …
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As we continue our look at the memorable and obscure news and pop culture stories of July 1969 and the preparations for the launch of Apollo 11, we focus this episode on protests that were erupting in cities around the world, and they weren't all Vietnam-centric: Violence hit the streets of Northern Ireland, residents of Gibraltar protested efforts…
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon is a supplemental podcast to author Joe Cuhaj's new book of the same title. The book is a week-by-week look at the forgotten news events, pop culture, and personal stories of July 1969, the month of the first lunar landing. Episode 1 focuses on the 4th of July 1969 and the efforts by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover to disman…
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