Astronaut Chris Hadfield on space, mustaches and Star Trek
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2014
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Astronaut and author Chris Hadfield nerds out with Tricia and Greta about living in space, his substantial mustache, making science cool on social media and the science fiction that helped spark his interest in space travel as a kid.
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| 0:00.0 | She packed my bags last night, free flight. |
| 0:08.0 | Zero hour, 9 a.m. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:15.0 | And this is the Nerdat podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm way too excited about this week, Greta. |
| 0:20.0 | This is pretty much the most exciting thing ever, Trisha. |
| 0:22.7 | We have for you nerd at listeners this week a conversation with Colonel Chris Hadfield. Even if |
| 0:27.7 | you're not a space nerd, I bet you've heard a little of this on YouTube. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Major Town to ground control control I've left forever more |
| 0:39.3 | And I'm floating in a most peculiar way |
| 0:46.3 | And the stars look very different today For here am I sitting in a tin can |
| 1:03.0 | Far above the world |
| 1:09.0 | Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing of the world. |
| 1:16.9 | Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing left to do. |
| 1:21.4 | This is actually how I was first introduced to the work of Colonel Hadfield, and it was super exciting. This is him singing. This is him playing. It's hilarious and awesome. |
| 1:25.7 | Chris Hadfield isn't the first person to tweet from space. |
| 1:28.4 | That actually happened with some NASA astronauts a few years before, but he changed the game for |
| 1:33.6 | how the public gets to interact with the international space station by interacting with the public |
| 1:38.5 | on pretty much a daily basis via Twitter and by sending back videos and even music videos in the |
| 1:44.0 | case of space oddity, |
| 1:45.4 | which was David Bowie approved, by the way. |
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