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Friend of the show Rod Pyle returns to discuss his latest book, and all things Apollo with Beth AND\u2026

• Receiving the foreword from Buzz Aldrin himself!
• Rod\u2019s impressions and insights from speaking with the Apollo 11 astronauts\u2019 children (now grown adults)
• Combing through the NASA archives to find incredible, never before shared documents, photos and stories from the Apollo era
• And what the future of space can be, returning to the Moon, on to Mars, and beyond\u2026

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Quotes from Rod here:

\u201cYou get the sense of an eternal restlessness with Buzz (Aldrin)\u2026 he demands that we move further and faster and beyond in space exploration, and he has not stopped thinking about that since the day he returned.\u201d

\u201cOne thing that always impressed me from my years of training at the Johnson Space Center, I would walk along the Saturn V rocket, and share the experience with several executives who would start crying because it\u2019s such a powerful experience as you walk from one end to the other, where you see what a massive accomplishment it all was\u2026and I take them to the top of the rocket and explain that \u2018all this is just to get the astronauts to the moon,\u2019 and they are astonished.\u201d

\u201cWhat I always try to do in my books is to both give the quotes of numbers, details about the missions, how many pounds of thrust the Saturn V rocket uses, etc., but that\u2019s not speaking to our hearts, and that\u2019s the conversation we need to have with people. The last time I saw this done well was when Elon Musk launched his Tesla from a Falcon Heavy into space, looking back on the Earth.\u201d

\u201cOn Apollo 12, Pete Conrad and Allan Bean were very serious and they were setting down the LEM, and there was this easy banter between two brothers sharing a common goal and landing right on target.\xa0 He (Conrad) came down right on the money, and when they landed, it was like party time inside the LEM, they were slapping each other\u2019s backs and it like listening to the

\u201cThroughout the [Apollo12] moonwalks, and there were two (Pete Conrad and Allan Bean), they were so overjoyed not just to be there and to be there on the moon, but to be in each other\u2019s company; there was this warmth, and this joy, this kind of excitement and this almost child-like thrill.\u201d

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About Rod Pyle:

Rod Pyle is a space author, journalist\xa0and\xa0historian who\xa0has authored\xa015\xa0books on space history, exploration\xa0and\xa0development for major publishers that have been released in ten languages. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the National Space Society\u2019s quarterly print\xa0magazine\xa0Ad Astra,\xa0and his\xa0frequent articles have appeared in\xa0Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, Huffington Post,\xa0Popular Science,\xa0Caltech\u2019s\xa0E&S\xa0magazine,\xa0and\xa0WIRED. He has written extensively for NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and\xa0Caltech,\xa0including Technology Highlights for NASA\u2019S Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Rod co-authored and lectured for the\xa0Apollo Executive Leadership Program\xa0for\xa0NASA\u2019s\xa0Johnson Space\xa0Center and The Conference Board.\xa0\xa0New\xa0book releases\xa0for 2019 include Space 2.0\xa0(with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin),\xa0Interplanetary Robots, Heroes of the Space Age, and First on the Moon (also with a foreword by Aldrin), which is currently in its fifth printing. Rod\u2019s previous Apollo books\xa0Missions to the Moon\xa0(foreword by Gene Kranz) and\xa0Destination Moon are being republished for 2019.

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Rod appears on national radio and television, with regular slots on KFI/Los Angeles, and WGN/Chicago\xa0(both market leaders), as well as popular podcasts and radio in numerous other markets. Rod hosts a podcast called\xa0Cool Space News\xa0on\xa0iHeart\xa0Radio,\xa0and\xa0appears\xa0on PBS\u2019s\xa0Between the Lines\xa0and C-SPAN\u2019s\xa0Book TV\xa0regularly.\xa0He\xa0holds an MA from Stanford University and a BFA from the Art Center College of Design, and lives in\xa0Alhambra, California.

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Where to find Rod Pyle:

Ad Astra: https://space.nss.org/ad-astra-the-magazine-of-the-national-space-society/

Cool Space News Podcast: https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2019-07-12-cool-space-news-with-rod-pyle/

First on the Moon: https://www.amazon.com/First-Moon-Apollo-Anniversary-Experience/dp/1454931973