Failure To Launch

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On audience request, this time we're reviewing 2007's Sunshine. It's got a great cast, a legendary soundtrack, good reviews, financial failure, and it made Cillian Murphy an atheist.

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No, a trio of astronauts on NASA's Skylab station did not stage a mutiny over poor working conditions. Yes, they would've been justified if they had staged a real mutiny. Today, we're tackling Skylab-4 and the legend of the First Strike in Space.
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SOURCES:
- Skylab: The Human Side of a Scientific Mission
- https://nss.org/space-myths-busted-no-there-wasnt-a-mutiny-on-skylab/
- https://nss.org/i-finally-read-a-house-in-space-and-it-is-a-big-ol-mess/

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In the late 70s, OKB-52 head Vladimir Chelomey decided to try and compete with the new Buran space shuttle project. He did it in secret, with stolen funds, and against express orders from the Kremlin. Today, we're talking with space history youtuber Alexander The OK about how it all somehow went wrong.
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SOURCES:
- Ahead of his Time, Ivan Evteev
- The Proton Launcher, Christian Lardier and Stefan Berensky
- Energiya-Buran, Bart Hendrickz
- Raketoplan, RussianSpaceWeb
- LKS, RussianSpaceWeb
- Vladimir Chelomei, False Steps
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