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Astronomycast, episode 356 in Nureshah.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We will help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me,

it's Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Ebridsville,

and the director of CosmoQuest.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Fraser?

Good, so we're recording this episode on the Monday after the spaceship to

disaster and what a week for spaceflight.

It was the Antares incident with Orb 3, and then spaceship 2 all in one week.

That was a tough week, but it all comes down to, they say it's not rocket science for so many different things,

because rocket science is so damn difficult.

We have to figure this out, and we're still at that learning to explore stage.

The analogy I used with several people last week was we are essentially trying to get to the new world,

where the new world is getting colonies above Earth's atmosphere,

and we're still at that stage of sending out the explorers,

but we haven't yet said out the colonists, and we're going to lose ships as we go,

and this is why they're test pilots.

It still sucks every single time, and our hearts are with not just the people who lost spacecraft,

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