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Failure To Launch

Failure To Launch Podcast
Failure To Launch
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    *PREVIEW* The Lesson (1987)

    25/06/2026 | 19 mins.
    This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, support Failure To Launch on Patreon at any tier.
    For June’s bonus, we’re joined by Ani Mejlumyan of the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast to talk all about The Lesson, a strange Soviet-Armenian animated short about environmentalism. Or possibly John Lennon. Or being so relentlessly horny that you short-circuit a Soviet censor’s brain.
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    Deep Sea & Space (w. Dr Alan Jamieson)

    11/06/2026 | 1h 30 mins.
    The earliest manned spaceflights were universally cramped, uncomfortable, and dangerous. What if your job was to do that multiple times a year underwater? This week, we're joined by Dr. Alan Jamieson, an accomplished marine biologist, veteran of many deep sea dives, and a host of the Deep Sea Podcast to compare our respective environments and see how they line up.
    Check out the Deep Sea Podcast here!
    Support FTL on Patreon to unlock bonus content and join our Discord community!
    FTL theme song by DJ Danarchy
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    *UNLOCKED* Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

    05/06/2026 | 1h 1 mins.
    More Ace Combat announcements are coming out and we're very excited about that, so we're unlocking our bonus episode from earlier this year on the Gleipnir flying stealthing aircraftlasermissilebattlecarrier.
    The final boss of superweapon development. A weapon worth double digits of the GDP of Laesath. The universe's most powerful Blue Angel. This time, we're tackling a fan request topic: Diego Gaspar Navarro's Folly, the Gleipnir.
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    *PREVIEW* Despoiler Class (w. 40K Badcast)

    29/05/2026 | 14 mins.
    This is a preview of a bonus episode. To hear the rest of the episode and unlock more bonus content, consider supporting Failure To Launch on Patreon.
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    The Coup of OKB-1 (w. Joe Kassabian)

    22/05/2026 | 1h 20 mins.
    A lot of people know that the Soviets canceled their manned lunar program after losing the Moon Race to Apollo. What most don’t know is how that program ended: in a backroom, cloak-and-dagger palace coup that made one man the unquestioned King of Soviet Space. This week, we’re joined by Joe Kassabian to talk about The Coup of OKB-1 by 𝓜𝓞𝓜. 
    Listen to Lions Led By Donkeys here and check out Joe’s upcoming book!
    Find our merch store here!
    Support FTL on Patreon to unlock bonus content and join our Discord community!
    SOURCES:
    - Challenge to Apollo, Asif Siddiqi
    - Rockets & People 4, Boris Chertok
    - Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration, Brian Harvey
    - RussianSpaceWeb, Anatoly Zak
    FTL theme song by DJ Danarchy
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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.
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