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2020 Audie Awards WINNER - History/Biography As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and...

What if the keys to solve the world’s hardest problems – food security, energy resilience, the digital divide – were already within our grasp? Welcome to The Moonshot Podcast, where we go behind the scenes at X, The Moonshot Factory, to celebrate 15 years of Google’s innovation laboratory. Hosted by Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, this series gives you unprecedented access to the radical ideas and fearless inventors working to build a future we want to live in. Explore real-world moonshots—from self-driving cars to AI-powered disaster prediction—and discover the messy, ...

Title: The Renaissance of Hope: Biden's Cancer Moonshot Initiative In 2016, Vice President Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot initiative, a bold mission inspired by the tragic loss of his son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer. The initiative aimed to accelerate cancer research and treatment, with the ultimate goal of ending cancer as we know it. When Biden assumed the presidency in 2021, he revitalized the Cancer Moonshot, setting an ambitious target to reduce cancer mortality rates by 50% over the next 25 years. The Cancer Moonshot began as part of a national commitment to double the rate of ...

Space isn’t cheap. Between 1960 and 1973, the United States spent $28 billion to land men on the Moon. That’s $288 billion when adjusted for inflation. The space investment market today is $360 billion and could grow to $2.7 trillion by 2045. In this two-part podcast we will explore the history and the expansion of the private sector and venture capital into space exploration, with insight from NASA’s chief economist, Alexander MacDonald; Apollo astronaut, Bill Anders; CEO of the Deep Space Coalition, Mary Lynne Dittmar; venture capitalist and Space X and Tesla board director, Steve ...

In our What’s Your Moonshot? Podcast Series, we seek to uncover big problems in Healthcare and talk to the Health System Chief Executive Officers that are working to solve them.