Episode 187 — An Inspired Enterprise
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In episode 187 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Glen Swanson, author of the new Star Trek history book “Inspired Enterprise.”
Were you inspired by “Star Trek” (or any of its countless spin-offs) when you were young? We know we were. We’ve all heard of the original series, but Swanson, who was previously chief historian at the Johnson Space Center, used his prodigious skills to dig deeper into the subject.
From Gene Roddenberry’s original inspiration to collaboration with Caltech, the RAND Corporation and NASA; and about the design of the good ship Enterprise itself (and the wildly popular AMT models that followed), this book provides everything you need to know to be a certified Trekker.
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