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Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast
Chris Hadfield’s Final Orbit! The Moon Landing Hoax, UAPs, China & the New Space Race
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50 minutes
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Chris Hadfield’s Final Orbit! The Moon Landing Hoax, UAPs, China & the New Space Race
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Astronaut and bestselling author Chris Hadfield joins me to discuss his new Cold War thriller Final Orbit and the real history behind it—UAPs, Operation Paperclip, and the exiled genius who built China’s rocket program. Along the way, we debate the moon landing hoax, the cost of the ISS, and why humans—not robots—must carry our story into the stars.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
03:06 The Cold War and space exploration
05:40 Conspiracy theories, UAPs, and whistleblowers
10:38 Checklists as a survival tool
16:06 Moon landing denial
21:26 Judging a book by its cover
26:38 Apollo-Soyuz collaboration
30:59 The legacy of Wernehr von Braun
34:20 McCarthyism and the future of space exploration
38:24 Chinese space program and rivalry
44:19 Is it reckless to send humans to space?
48:54 Outro
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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast
