The WillyLogan.com Podcast

A lot can change in the sixty years since the first men flew into space. And a lot has. This episode is about Gherman Titov's one-day space flight on August 6, 1961, and how things have changed since then.

Why go to the bottom of the ocean to get a 38-year-old space capsule? This episode is about Gus Grissom's suborbital spaceflight in 1961, and how American culture has imagined spaceflight as something magical.

How the celebrity of America's first astronauts affects how we think of spaceflight to this day.

Yuri Gagarin and how humankind's first flight into space has been remembered.

It turns out that the unassuming city of Sacramento, California played a small but important role in the Apollo moon program: the upper stages of the Saturn rockets were test-fired there before flight. I investigate the ruins of Sacramento's rocket-testing site.