Moon Walk

Spinning on Air | May 18, 2010
40 years ago on July 20th men walked on the moon. Ever since the voyage of Apollo 11, public interest in lunar adventures seems to have waned. But there was a lot of enthusiasm for the "conquest" of the moon prior to 1969, and host David Garland has the evidence: pop and jazz songs, psychedelic experiments, and a crater-full of kiddie records, all waxing rhapsodic about what a trip to the moon MIGHT be like. Take off into yesterday's world of tomorrow!

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