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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2222: Astronaut Mike Massimino

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

  • Was the moon landing, real or fake? (2:03)

  • How we are living in paradise and MUST take advantage of every moment. (4:33)

  • His definition of 'home'. (8:55)

  • The biggest misunderstandings of spacewalking. (10:24)

  • Thinking and preparing for everything that can go wrong. (13:06)

  • Space debris is a problem. (18:35)

  • The process of becoming an astronaut. (22:14)

  • The leaders or trainers that stood out to him. (35:20)

  • Gravity is the problem. (40:19)

  • The experience of takeoff. (42:14)

  • The most accurate space movies. (47:36)

  • Dealing with the fear of potential death. (53:35)

  • Preparing the body for going into space and coming back. (59:54)

  • Sleeping in space and astronaut humor. (1:10:48)

  • When you have a goal, it doesn't matter where you are from. (1:18:25)

  • The importance of these private companies' missions for the future of humanity. (1:21:53)

  • Dealing with radiation exposure in space. (1:33:22)

  • Some cool things seen from space. (1:37:59)

  • How far away are we from commercial space flights? (1:46:00)

  • Knowing when to pivot. (1:49:25)

  • For the love of the game, not the money. (1:56:01)

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:26.0

Mind-pop with your hosts.

0:29.0

Sal de Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:33.7

You just found the most downloaded Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast.

0:37.2

This is Mind Pump.

0:38.7

Today's episode, we had a real astronaut on the show. Mike Masamino came on the show.

0:43.0

Mike Masamino came on the show.

0:45.4

This guy's amazing.

0:46.0

He's first off, the first person to tweet from space.

0:50.0

That's true.

0:50.3

He actually was in space, sent a tweet down, and it was on at the time named Twitter.

0:55.8

He's done space, I think four spacewalks.

0:58.7

He went up to fix the Hubble telescope.

1:00.9

In fact, in today's podcast he talks about

1:03.3

something that might be of alien origin no joke no joke this is really cool

1:07.6

really cool conversation really great guy he just released the book you got to check it out it's called

1:12.8

Moonshot a NASA astronauts guide to achieving the impossible so we know you're

1:18.1

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1:26.0

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