Professor James McCanney has taught mathematics courses at the university level and has worked for about half of his lengthy career in private industry. He discussed the US space program, the (then) possibility of private space exploration, and the efforts and progress of foreign space programs. He said that the Russian space program (at the date of the interview) had launched 20-30,000 people into orbit, mostly on a small space plane called "Cosmos" that performed 1600 missions between 1962 and 1977, while the US had less than 300 to that point.
McCanney claimed that the US didn't want other countries looking around Mars because they had discovered the "remnants of ancient civilizations." He added that Mars "used to be a vibrant water planet" and that there was travel between that planet and Earth by an advanced civilization. He continued with speculation on how ancient astronauts from Mars would have used electromagnetic power for their ships and how this principle was explored and tested by Nikola Tesla.
McCanney also argued that none of the Apollo astronauts actually went to the moon. He predicted that China would have at least 100,000 people in space within five years with a space plane launched from the ground, and would populate the moon before any other countries could get there. Beginning in the third hour, McCanney took questions from listeners. The first hour consisted of news and Open Lines.