Let’s Talk About : The Moon and why it’s important to our future

Humans have conquered almost every piece of land in the known world so naturally we’d expand upwards… To the stars, but how we’d do that is still a question we’re trying to answer. Fortunately, we have a big and shiny sphere that hovers above us in the night sky. The other world that blots out the sun from the sky during some days and turns from chalk white to crimson red on other days. The moon.

Credit : 

Michael Paterson for improvement in audio quality

Links : 

letustalkabout@outlook.com - Podcast e-mail

Let’s Talk About : The Knowledge Podcast | a podcast by Vihaan Nair (podbean.com) - Podcast Website

Sources : 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200000973/downloads/20200000973.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-mission.html

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/walking-on-rocket-propellant/#:~:text=The%20fuel%20can%20be%20many,propellant%20before%20takeoff%20is%20LOX.

https://hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/moon-more-metallic-than-thought

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/years-late-and-billions-over-budget-nasas-most-powerful-rocket-finally-set-for-takeoff