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Orbital Briefing explores the history, technology, and future of human spaceflight.From the early days of Mercury and Apollo to the Space Shuttle era and the new generation of spacecraft being developed today, each episode dives into the missions, machines, and people that made space exploration possible.Hosted by Ron Walker, Orbital Briefing brings the stories of spaceflight to life through deep dives into historic missions, the engineers who built them, and the technologies that will carry humanity farther into the cosmos.
Ron Walker hosts Orbital Briefing: The Missions, Machines, and People of Spaceflight, a science show with 15 episodes published.
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft that would change our understanding of the outer solar system forever. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were built to explore Jupiter and Saturn, but Voyager 2 went on to visit Uranus and Nep
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In this episode of Orbital Briefing, Ron Walker explores Orion, NASA’s deep space crew vehicle built to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit and into the Artemis era. From its roots in the post-Shuttle years to its ro
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch represents a new era of human spaceflight. From her record-setting 328-day mission aboard the International Space Station to her historic role on Artemis II, Koch’s career connects the hard-
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What really happened on Apollo 13? In this episode of Orbital Briefing, Ron Walker tells the full story of NASA’s most famous in-flight emergency, from the launch of the Moon mission to the oxygen tank explosion, the abo
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How does NASA actually fly a spacecraft once it leaves Earth? In this episode of Orbital Briefing, Ron Walker takes you inside Mission Control, the nerve center of American human spaceflight. From Gemini and Apollo to th
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Sputnik: The Beginning of the Space Age takes you back to October 4, 1957, when Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, launched from the Soviet Union and changed history forever. In this episode of Orbital Briefing,
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In this episode of Orbital Briefing, Ron Walker takes a deep dive into Jared Isaacman, the 15th Administrator of NASA, exploring his path from entrepreneur and pilot to Inspiration4 commander, commercial spaceflight pion
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In this episode of Orbital Briefing, we dive into Apollo 8, the groundbreaking NASA mission that became the first crewed flight to leave Earth orbit, the first to reach the Moon, and the first to orbit another world. Lea
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NASA just reshaped the future of human spaceflight. In this special Orbital Briefing update, Ron Walker breaks down the biggest announcements from NASA’s IGNITION event, including the new Artemis roadmap, the shift towar
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How did the Space Shuttle survive the most dangerous part of every mission? During reentry, the shuttle slammed into Earth’s atmosphere at over seventeen thousand miles per hour. Temperatures outside the spacecraft soare
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After more than fifty years, humanity is preparing to return to the Moon. In this episode of Orbital Briefing, Ron Walker takes a deep dive into NASA’s Artemis program — the missions, the astronauts, the technology, and
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Deke Slayton helped decide who would fly some of the most important missions in the history of human spaceflight. In this episode of Orbital Briefing, host Ron Walker explores the remarkable story of Deke Slayton, one of
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The Saturn V rocket was the most powerful launch vehicle ever successfully flown — the machine that carried NASA’s Apollo astronauts to the Moon. Standing more than three hundred sixty feet tall and producing seven and a
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After the Apollo Moon landings, NASA faced an uncertain future. The Saturn V rockets were retired, the Space Race had been won, and funding for space exploration was shrinking. What came next would become one of the most
Show notesWelcome to Orbital Briefing — the podcast exploring the missions, machines, and people of spaceflight. From the earliest days of the space race to the spacecraft now preparing to carry humans back to the Moon and beyond,
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Orbital Briefing: The Missions, Machines, and People of Spaceflight is hosted by Ron Walker. The show is categorised under science (astronomy) and has published 15 episodes.
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