A Conversation with Dr. Mae Jemison

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, former astronaut and Principal of 100 Year Starship, to explore her multidisciplinary career, the challenges of interstellar space travel, and the best ways to make science more accessible for everyone. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Photo Credit: NASA

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.8	Star Talk, I'm Neil the Grass Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:26.4	On rare occasions I sit down to interview someone whose presence is so powerful, so entertaining
0:33.5	and so enlightening all at once, and the conversation that comes out of that encounter is so inspiring
0:40.4	that we have to depart from our usual studio format and exchange for some one-on-one
0:46.7	time.
0:48.7	On just such an occasion I sat down with former NASA astronaut engineer and physician
0:53.8	Dr. May Gemason.
0:56.2	And that interaction moved us all on Star Talk to break format for this particular episode.
1:02.7	So instead of our usual panel of in-studio expert guests and comedians and scientists, what
1:07.8	follows is my uninterrupted conversation with May from start to finish.
1:14.1	Dr. May Gemason has been to space, but that's not the only thing we're even the most interesting
1:19.4	thing about her.
1:21.0	Her early career as a medical doctor in Africa and Cambodia.
1:26.0	To her space shuttle mission and now her newest project, 100-year starship, she has literally
1:33.2	aimed for the stars.
1:35.2	We talked about all of this.
1:37.2	So in this first part of the conversation we get to know about May, the life that prepared
1:42.0	her to dream bigger than most people will ever dare to dream.
1:47.5	So let's go to that conversation now.
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