408: Chris Hadfield | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) is an engineer, former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, retired astronaut, the first Canadian to walk in space, and author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and The Darkest Dark.
What We Discuss with Chris Hadfield:- The difference between "I want to be" and "I want to turn myself into."
- Enjoying small victories along a path of preparation and personal growth vs. grand "make it or break it" expectations.
- How intense is imposter syndrome for a newly selected astronaut?
- What's the astronaut's (as well as earthling's) best antidote for fear?
- What really happens when you sneeze in space?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.9 | My first spacewalk, holding on to the outside of a spaceship, |
| 0:06.4 | and I'm blind. |
| 0:07.4 | I've lost one of my five senses. |
| 0:09.4 | What do you do next? |
| 0:10.2 | That's always what the question is. |
| 0:11.8 | Talked to mission control. |
| 0:13.4 | We thought maybe it was one of the purifying chemicals |
| 0:16.7 | in the suit, because it causes eye irritation. |
| 0:18.8 | It's a nasty chemical. |
| 0:19.9 | So we thought, let's open up the purge valve |
| 0:21.9 | and let my limited oxygen supply blow across my face |
| 0:26.4 | out of my little pressurized tank |
| 0:28.1 | and squirt out into the universe. |
| 0:30.0 | And maybe that will flush the contaminated air out of my suit. |
| 0:33.6 | And then my eyes will get better. |
| 0:35.2 | But that's a bit of a gamble, because I only |
| 0:37.5 | have a very finite amount of oxygen. |
| 0:39.7 | It's a very odd feeling to be blind, |
| 0:42.9 | holding on to the outside of a spaceship, |
| 0:44.8 | listening to your oxygen hiss out into the universe. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to the show. |
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