Expedition Packing List. Food: 200 lb / Sledge: 150 lb / Science Equipment: 50 lb / Bear Meat: 12,000 lb. Today, Quinn and Chris are joined by Joe Kassabian, host of the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast to talk about a Victorian aerospace disaster: S A Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. 
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Sources:
- The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, Alec Wilkinson
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The DLR and the Art of Satellite Operations (w. Jake)

This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.