Project Apollo started as a program simply to land a man on the moon before the Russians. But, as time went on, the Apollo technology found more and more uses as we learned how to live and work in space. Apollo technology gave us earth orbiting

Lunar Communications Network

Feb 18th, 2020 28m 37s

We landed on the moon. We built a habitat on the moon.We are living in earth orbit, and we are living in lunar orbit.We are living on the far side of the moon, with no visibility to earth...ever.With four space stations, two lunar bases, and ov

Lunar Skylab

Feb 4th, 2020 29m 34s

The United States was forming quite a bit of a space complex.They had space stations in low earth orbit, learning how to live and work in space, eventually to establish a permanent presence in low earth orbit.They had bases on the surface of th

Apollo Lunar Bases p2

Jan 21st, 2020 29m 51s

Not long after the end of the Apollo lunar landings, it was time for the next step in lunar exploration. There was belief, and some evidence from the experiments that were performed on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions, that there we

Apollo Lunar Bases p1

Jan 7th, 2020 23m 46s

Links and More InformationBelitopia WebsiteApollo Lunar Base - BelitopiaApollo Moon Bases p1 EpisodeTycho Crater (Wikipedia)Please support our showNot long after the end of the Apollo lunar landings, it was time for the next step in lunar explo

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What is Belitopia About, Review: For All Mankind

Dec 17th, 2019 25m 34s

What is Belitopia all about? This is a bonus episode where I answer questions about Belitopia and my plans for the future of the world of Belitopia, including future podcast episodes and other content. Plus, have you seen the Apple TV+ show “Fo

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Belitopia – Notice: Mid-Season Break

Dec 10th, 2019 44s

I hope you are enjoying our world of Belitopia. We’re going to be taking a few weeks off for our mid-season break while celebrating the holiday season. However, stay tuned! There might be some bonus content coming out during the break! We will

Skylab +

Dec 3rd, 2019 29m 3s

The Space Race wasn’t just about who could get to the moon first. There were other battlefields where the space race was fought. One of those battlefields was in building a permanent manned presence in space in the form of a space station in lo

The Venus Flyby p2

Nov 19th, 2019 23m 38s

Links and More InformationEpisode DetailsBelitopia Venus Flyby InformationWikipedia - Venus FlybyWikipedia - Apollo Applications ProgramOriginal 1967 NASA Venus Flyby Feasibility StudyPlease support our show.IntroductionIn the last episode of B

The Venus Flyby p1

Nov 5th, 2019 33m 1s

Among the many missions that came out of the Apollo Applications Program, one of the most amazing was the Venus Flyby mission. Imagine, using the same Apollo technology that brought us to the moon, for a long duration mission to fly by our nea

Apollo Applications Program

Oct 22nd, 2019 19m 23s

The Apollo space program was much more than a set of missions to the moon. It was also a technology platform that provided the basis for future space programs. A technology platform that the Apollo Applications Program was created to leverage

Apollo +

Oct 8th, 2019 25m 1s

The Apollo space program. The quintessential peak of human kinds manned space program. The funding that went into this program was astronomical, around $120 **billion** dollars, adjusted for inflation.But once we landed on the moon, we lost in

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Welcome to Belitopia…

Sep 28th, 2019 5m

This is the world of “what if”. What if we had continued the space race, what would our space footprint look like? What if we had invested heavily in a transportation infrastructure around the globe, how would that change how we get from point