The Bureau of Astonishing Explanations

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Episode 012: Five Words

1:50

09 June, 2015

41.09M

JFK added a phrase to his speech that brought the crowd to its feet. Hardly anyone noticed the ad lib.
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Episode 011: Tower Cleared

1:06

02 June, 2015

23.68M

Two words that defined NASA's org chart.
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Episode 010: Robert Goddard vs The NY Times

0:53

26 May, 2015

59.48M

The retraction took 49 years.
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Episode 009: The First Photo of the Space Age

2:48

19 May, 2015

63.77M

A view from on high
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Episode 008: Lost in Translation

1:16

12 May, 2015

27.95M

What to say, and how to say it during a handshake in space.