• Space Policy Edition: NASA and the American South

  • Jul 5 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
  • Podcast

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Space Policy Edition: NASA and the American South

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  • Every major NASA center built after the agency’s inception is located in the American South. Why? Dr. Brian Odom, NASA’s chief historian, joins the show to explore the relationship between NASA and the South, how politics and geography led to this focus, and why NASA’s expansion during the Apollo era was likened to a second reconstruction of a previously rural and underdeveloped region of the United States.

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