A Political History of Apollo

The Planetary Society

Explore the politics of why the United States decided to send humans to the Moon—and why the nation pulled back after landing only six times.

Topics: History, Science

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5 episodes of A Political History of Apollo have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1472828370/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Example Transcripts

Episode 5 - A Gift or a Curse? August 12, 2019
Episode 4 - Why it Ended (With John Logsdon) July 29, 2019
Episode 3 - The Home Front (with Emily Margolis) July 18, 2019
Episode 2 - The Soviet Moonshot (with Asif Siddiqi) July 13, 2019
Episode 1 - How it happened (with Roger Launius) July 12, 2019

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