The future of space exploration with Andrew Chaikin

The Accutron Show

For this episode of The Accutron Show, our hosts go back into space to discuss the future of exploration. They do it with award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin who has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for more than three decades. Writer-director and explorer James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens of the Deep) called him “our best historian of the space age.” Chaikin is best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, widely regarded as the definitive account of the moon missions. Come fly with us.

Episode Highlights

12:20 I spoke at great length with everyone that has been on the moon and I thought "What must it be like looking at the moon and knowing that you've been there?" But what I didn't take into consideration was that these men went to the moon as professionals, they were there to do a job with the prestige of their country at stake.

22:40 Nobody's been back to the moon since Apollo. When you think of going to Mars, that is Mount Everest for the human species. We have got to solve so many problems in order to be able to send people to Mars without killing them.

30:00 What's different in today's astronauts is the diversity of intellects. They get better and better, smarter and smarter as time goes on.

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