Exploration

In The Moment ... July 3, 2019 Show 609 Hour 2This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Meanwhile, PBS presents Chasing the Moon, a new…

In The Moment ... June 18, 2019 Show 598 Hour 1In 1845, two ships and 129 men left Greenland with the hope of locating the Northwest Passage. They never…

The caves of the Black Hills are among the longest in the world, and new research shows they may also contain some of the purest water on earth.The lakes…

Jewel Cave is now 180 miles long and it contains a second lake. On a four day exploration trip during the second week of November cavers pushed into the…

In the months after Pearl Harbor, “Operation Drumbeat” sent Nazi U-boats to American shores. The German naval command caught the U.S. unprepared and their…

Dr. Harry Thompson, Executive Director of the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College, joins the program. Thompson discusses the history of the…