It's Sunday, June 22, 1969, and NASA is moving full steam ahead on a July 16 launch of Apollo 11. Meanwhile, a Soviet philologist says that the Star of Bethlehem was a spaceship, and Jesus Christ was a visitor from another planet.<a href="https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcast" rel="payment">Support the show: https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcast</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Three Brave Men

In the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, fictional radio station KHCN-AM 4747 carries you back in time with a weekly podcast covering major news stories, social issues and Apollo activities in the spring and summer of 1969 as America enters the final sprint in the race against the Soviets to set foot on the moon.