7 - Star Men

Frontier of Infinity: A Space Exploration Podcast

This week, the space race continues as the Mercury Seven continue to train and make ready to voyage into space. Meanwhile, the Soviets make preparations to compete, searching for their own cosmonaut corps while also shocking the world with a pair of highly successful lunar probes.
CORRECTION: The Mercury Capsule weighed closer to 3,000 lbs rather than 4,000 lbs and had 2 portholes rather than 1.
Twitter: @FOISpacecast
Music: "Crossing the Universe" by Ester Garcia
Sources and Further Research:
Books-
"Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon" by James Harford
"Moonshot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon" by Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard with Jay Barbaree and Howard Benedict
"Project Mercury" by Eugen Reichl
"Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space" by Deborah Cadbury
"Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" by Michael J. Neufeld