408: Chris Hadfield | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Chris Hadfield is a retired astronaut, the first Canadian to walk in space, and author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and The Darkest Dark.

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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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