In this episode, I talk with Annette Busbee (Writer/Executive Producer), Rod Blocksome (Retired Collins Employee), and Steve Tyson (Retired Collins Employee) about their documentary - The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Steps to the Moon (Official Selection at the 2023 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival)

Steps to the Moon Synopsis: Before personal computers, the internet, smartphones and GPS connected us and guided out journeys, men on board the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space capsules talked to the earth, navigated in space and to the moon and back, and exchanged critical data with mission control. How was this accomplished five decades ago? By the ingenuity and dedication of The Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This fir ...