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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

330: Scott Tingle—I'd Go in a Heartbeat

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Astronaut and combat veteran Captain Scott Tingle, a.k.a. "Maker," explains how he turned his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut into a reality. He provides a harrowing blow-by-blow account of what it's like to fly an 8-hour combat mission and land on an aircraft carrier at night, as well as how to poop in space.
 

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's the way I heard at episode number 3.30.

0:07.0

This one's called I'd Go in a Heartbeat with Scott Tingle.

0:11.0

For the record, that's a direct quote from Scott Tingle, in answer to the question, would you go to Mars?

0:18.0

Scott Tingle's an astronaut, you see.

0:20.0

And a pretty good one, Chuck. And I have to say,

0:22.8

without patting ourselves too hard on the back, we've done it again. That was a good one.

0:27.8

I believe you are right, Mike. Captain Scott Tingle couldn't be a nicer guy. I mean, really,

0:33.8

just a really down-to-earth guy, pun intended. And, you know, his military career is

0:39.7

stellar and his career with NASA. You know, he flew FAA 18s. He flew Hornets, 54 combat missions,

0:48.0

168 days in space. Am I leaving anything out? Yeah, the most important thing.

0:54.7

Five years ago, when NASA gave him an opportunity to call anybody on the planet from the space station.

1:03.5

Yeah.

1:03.9

You got one call a month to anybody in the world.

1:08.5

Scott Dingell said, I want to talk to the dirty jobs guy.

1:13.2

And I was like, really?

1:15.5

An astronaut wants to talk to me from space.

1:18.4

So NASA sends me this encrypted iPad, right, with a special app on it.

1:26.6

And you guys at the office send it to me. I was down in New Orleans

1:30.7

filming something or giving a speech or something. And I'm like, what in the hell is this? I go to my

1:37.0

room and I open up this container and I take out this super secret special high tech iPad and I start clicking things in and the next

1:46.4

thing you know, I got an astronaut on the line up there in space.

1:51.2

Yep.

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