In this episode, we explore from frozen peas to space monkeys. Imagine sitting down to dinner in 1930, and you are served something entirely novel, something that feels like, well, an absolute miracle of modern science. Like a new invention. Exactly. It's a plate of frozen vegetables, courtesy of Clarence Bird's Eye. And at the time, it's this small, mundane domestic innovation, right? Just a curiosity. Right, just figuring out how to freeze a side dish. Yeah. But now keep that frozen pea in your mind and fast forward like less than 20 years. It's 1949. That is a fast jump. And instead of figuring out frozen food, we are literally strapping a rhesus monkey into the nose cone of a V2 rocket. Which is just wild to think about. Right. And we're launching it into the stratosphere on a suborbital flight. from a frozen vegetable to space exploration in un ...