Faster and Faster

Hosted by Bob Carlson Aug. 19, 2016 Arts

"If everything seems under control…. you’re not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

Three stories about speed: giving yourself over to it, overcoming your fear of it, and falling in love with it.

This episode originally aired on February 27, 2015.

Photo courtesy of Bob Carlson.

From this Episode:

Into Space

Barbara Morgan is one of the small club whose members have been rocketed into space at unimaginable speeds. She was the backup candidate for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project,...

6 min

Tess vs the Roller Coaster

A story produced by UnFictional producer Bob Carlson and his daughter Tess, last year when she was 10. She had always wished she were brave enough to ride a looping roller...

13 min

Let the Purple Bike Live On

There was something about Dan Dombroski’s flashy purple bicycle that had the power to turn casual bike riders into bicycling champions, and it became a symbol for a...

10 min

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Bob Carlson

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