13 Minutes to the Moon Podcast
Epic space stories.
Season 1: the first Moon landing, Apollo 11.
Season 2: the near disaster of Apollo 13.
Coming soon: Season 3, the space shuttle.
Theme music: Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music.
Episodes to download
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Bonus: The Global Story
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Why everyone wants to get back to the moon 鈥� a special episode
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Update: Live show and season 3!
Wed 17 May 2023
News about Season 3 and our live episode recording 鈥� send us your questions for Kay Hire
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S2 Ep.07 Resurrection—Apollo 13
Wed 10 Jun 2020
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
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S2 Bonus 02: John Aaron—Apollo 13
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. An extended interview
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S2 Ep.06 Earth in view—Apollo 13
Wed 15 Apr 2020
The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home. And without a guidance computer
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S2 Bonus 01: Jim Lovell—Apollo 13
Tue 14 Apr 2020
Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview
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S2 Ep.05 Life support—Apollo 13
Wed 8 Apr 2020
鈥淲e were being poisoned by our own exhalation.鈥� Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew
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S2 Ep.04 Power brokers—Apollo 13
Wed 1 Apr 2020
Power must be brutally rationed after the crew flies around the Moon
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S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat—Apollo 13
Wed 25 Mar 2020
The astronauts are fighting for their lives 鈥� and have to escape to their lunar lander
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S2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey—Apollo 13
Wed 18 Mar 2020
鈥淲e were in deep, deep trouble.鈥� Mission Control like you鈥檝e never heard it before
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S2 Ep.01 Time bomb: Apollo 13—Apollo 13
Wed 11 Mar 2020
鈥淗ouston, we鈥檝e had a problem.鈥� To ignite catastrophe takes the flick of a single switch.
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Countdown to Season 2
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Jump on-board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story
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Bonus: The making of the music
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music
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Ep.12 Live from Houston
Sat 20 Jul 2019
鈥淲e choose to go.鈥� The season finale comes from where JFK made his famous Moon speech
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Ep.11 The 13 minutes
Sun 14 Jul 2019
History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph
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Ep.10 鈥楩or all mankind鈥�
Sun 14 Jul 2019
History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through audio of the descent
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Ep.09 Tranquility Base
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Tension is 鈥渢hrough the roof鈥�. Neil Armstrong takes control and fuel starts to run out
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Ep.08 鈥榃e鈥檙e go for powered descent鈥�
Mon 1 Jul 2019
The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems
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Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Wed 26 Jun 2019
Without the astronaut who didn鈥檛 step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn鈥檛 have succeeded
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Ep.06 Saving 1968
Wed 19 Jun 2019
War, riots, assassinations: 鈥渢he year that shattered America鈥�. But it ended with Apollo 8
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Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
Wed 12 Jun 2019
The computer that got us to the moon. There had never been anything like it
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Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
Wed 5 Jun 2019
"You heard 鈥榝ire鈥�. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened next
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Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Wed 29 May 2019
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: a spacecraft like nothing on Earth
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Ep.02 Kids in control
Wed 22 May 2019
Unsung heroes who saved the day. The "26-year-old kid who could stop the lunar mission"
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Ep.01 鈥榃e choose to go鈥�
Wed 15 May 2019
With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins 鈥� "we intend to win"
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T-minus 2
Fri 26 Apr 2019
Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It鈥檚 his first podcast
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T-minus 3
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with an Apollo astronaut and former NASA engineer
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Season 2: The Apollo 13 story
Jump on-board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story
Season 1: The Apollo 11 story
How the first moon landing was saved. The story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen
