29: Tech in Space - Rocket History (it's not rocket science!)

Why do rockets have 100x size differences and still share the same destinations? What were countries other than the US and Soviet Union doing in the Space Race? Can we compare rockets with foot-long sandwiches and elephants? In this twenty-ninth episode of The Sound of Space podcast, we take a time machine back a few decades to appreciate what brought us to the space age today. One of the pinnacles of human creation - space rockets were born out of military technologies in the strive to elevate their trajectory from enemy territories toward the stars above. Launch vehicle families from across the world, big and tiny, have enabled increasingly complex missions from our vicinity to much further beyond. Our ride down the chronicles will be focused on highlighting the key features of rocket families as they stand by one another. We hope you will enjoy the stories in rocket evolution with minimal science involved! Continue the conversation over on our Instagram account @_thesoundofspace or LinkedIn at The Sound of Space (TSOS) and let us know your thoughts on this episode! University of Toronto Land Acknowledgment TSOS is brought to you by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT). UTAT is an interdisciplinary student design team with four technical divisions. Visit utat.ca to learn more! CREDITS & TEAM Hosts: Youssef Saad, Ketan Vasudeva Producer: Jillian Unruh Sound Engineer: Lianne Choong, Klara Meng Marketing & Graphics: Mahdeva Rahman Research Team: Darren Wu, Afrin Prio, Sunyah Tehreem, Irene Chung