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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Extra: A Secret History of The Space Rocket

With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing just a few days away we’re starting to think back to names like Armstrong, Aldrin and Kennedy One name you won’t be thinking about is Frank Malina. In fact even if you were to delve into the archives you might struggle to find mention of his name at all So why has the founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory been denied his place in the story of American space flight? Dr Fraser McDonald is a Lecturer in Historical Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh and author of Escape From Earth: A Secret History of The Space Rocket.