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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

This approach, knownas "“Direct Ascent," seemed like a dead-endto a NASA engineer...

This approach, known
as "“Direct Ascent," seemed like a dead-end
to a NASA engineer named
John Houbolt and his colleagues

Full Transcript

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This approach, known as "“Direct Ascent,"
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seemed like a dead-end to a NASA engineer named John Houbolt and his colleagues.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:19
Uploaded
Jun 01, 2025
Season
1
Episode
8
Genres
documentary, animation, family

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Movie Summary

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" returns for a second season. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, serves as executive producer.
S01 • E09 TYSON: It's the rarest of events, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
TYSON: It's the rarest of events,
S01 • E11 Now, imagine the cosmic telescope of another civilization. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Now, imagine the cosmic telescope of another civilization.
S01 • E05 When the microbes living at the center of this vast mat get hungry, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
When the microbes living at the center of this vast mat get ...
S01 • E10 The scientists and engineers told themselves that they - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:10
The scientists and engineers told themselves that they
S01 • E03 Made of the thing he believed to be the stuff of life, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
Made of the thing he believed to be the stuff of life,
S01 • E13 They left behind a written language that no one has ever - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
They left behind a written language that no one has ever
S01 • E12 There was a person called the "iceman." - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
There was a person called the "iceman."
S01 • E11 Say, one that's 5,000 lightyears from Earth. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Say, one that's 5,000 lightyears from Earth.
S01 • E06 That when we stepped down on the lunar surface for the first time, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
That when we stepped down on the lunar surface for the first...
S01 • E08 One version of the story goes, two space scientists had kept - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
One version of the story goes, two space scientists had kept
S01 • E04 This had been Charles Darwin's revolutionary insight. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
This had been Charles Darwin's revolutionary insight.
S01 • E07 When everything's ready, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
When everything's ready,
S01 • E13 We have yet to discover a clue that could explain - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
We have yet to discover a clue that could explain
S01 • E01 Huygens, like Bruno, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
Huygens, like Bruno,
S01 • E11 The astronomers of that world could witness the building - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
The astronomers of that world could witness the building
S01 • E05 These communiqués travel through passages called ion channels. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:04
These communiqués travel through passages called ion channel...
S01 • E09 It was not until Isaac Newton that we began to understand - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
It was not until Isaac Newton that we began to understand
S01 • E12 You'd keep it in something called an "icebox" to preserve - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
You'd keep it in something called an "icebox"...
S01 • E13 They are just one of the mysteries of the - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
They are just one of the mysteries of the
S01 • E11 Or follow the Polynesian voyages as they bravely made their way across the Pacific. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
Or follow the Polynesian voyages as they bravely made their ...