Making Moonrise

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 10:40 a.m.

b"Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins went to the moon, it\\u2019s hard to shake off the afterimage of the Saturn V rocket rising into the sky on a column of flame, and remember that the astronauts' bold adventure was also the product of decades of work by engineers, politicians, propagandists, and even science fiction writers. That\\u2019s the gap Lillian Cunningham of the Washington Post set out to fix in her podcast, Moonrise. And she\\u2019s here with us today to talk about how the show got made, what she thinks the Apollo story can teach us about the power of imagination, and how the stories we tell help us to write the future."