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• Since he grew up in a community of other astronaut families, Andy Aldrin thought having an astronaut father who worked for NASA “was normal.” Andy Aldrin sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about having an astronaut dad and Apollo 11.
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• Growing up watching rocket launches and with a father working at NASA, Phil Metzger was himself launched into a career of studying space and sending up rockets himself. He sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about how his father influenced him to become an engineer for NASA.
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• Before the Apollo missions, NASA had to learn how to live and work in space. The Mercury and Gemini programs paved the way for future moon missions.
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• Hannah Harber of the band Hannah Harber & The Lionhearts joins Intersection to discuss the making of their debut album, “Long Time Coming,” which was released on Jan. 9.
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• For the first time, local leaders from across the region are joining in on an effort to plan for climate change. The East Central Florida Regional Resilience Collaborative is the third in the state and the nineteenth in the nation. WMFE’s environmental reporter Amy Green joined Matthew Peddie on Intersection to talk more about environmental efforts from all over the region.
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• According to the North American Veterinary Community, some 85 million families have a pet. Americans spent about 40 billion on animal health care last year. In return, pets may improve our quality of life and health. Tom Bohn, CEO of the North American Veterinary Community, and Dr. Lynn R. Honeckman, a local veterinarian behaviorist, sat down with Matthew Peddie to talk about the human-animal connection pets families can have.
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• Ridley Pearson talked with 90.7’s Matthew Peddie about Kid Stew and his adventure books set in Disney World after dark, The Kingdom Keepers.
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• Summer time is thunderstorm time. Florida is the lightning capital of the country, and according to the National Weather Service, more people are killed by lightning in Florida than any other state.
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• Cane toads, a non-native species to Florida, run rampant in backyards of homes and pose a threat to family pets with their toxins. Jeannine Tilford founded the pest removal company Toad Busters to protect both pets and Florida’s ecosystem from the toads and their toxic secretions.
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• If you think bagpipes-you probably think highland pipes. But the pipes you might hear in marching bands, or at weddings and funerals, aren’t the only bagpipes out there. There’s also the Uilleann pipes from Ireland.
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