Astronaut Nicole Stott: BACK TO EARTH (#188)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home. In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that each of us can practice to make change. She knows we can overcome differences to address global issues, because she saw this every day on the International Space Station. Stott shares stories from her spaceflight and insights from scientists, activists, and changemakers working to solve our greatest environmental challenges. She learns about the complexities of Earth’s biodiversity from NASA engineers working to enable life in space and from scientists protecting life on Earth for future generations. Ultimately, Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect our planetary home and one another by living our lives like crewmates, not passengers, on an inspiring shared mission. Get BACK TO EARTH here https://amzn.to/3mzwtNW LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/impossible to post a job for free. Audible is hands-down my favorite platform for consuming podcasts, fiction and nonfiction books! With an Audible membership, you can download titles and listen offline, anytime, anywhere. The Audible app is free and can be installed on all smartphones and tablets. You can listen across devices without losing your spot. Audible members don’t have to worry about using their credits right away. You can keep your credits for up to a year—and use them to binge on a whole series if you’d like! And if you’re not loving your selection, you can simply swap it for another. Start your free 30-day trial today: Audible.com/impossible or text “impossible” to 500-500 Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:09.0	So today we are joined by a past guest on the Into the Impossible podcast and now I can add to her many
0:18.0	accolades I can add she is an author a published author and she has always been an artist and she has been an astronaut and all these AAA
0:29.2	She's a triple threat in many ways and it's uh, and Nicole Scott joining us from the
0:36.0	from the East Coast from Florida, right, Nicole?
0:38.0	Yeah, yeah, St. Petersburg, Florida.
0:41.0	And Nicole was, I think you were my second astronaut guest. I had Dr.
0:46.9	Jessica Maier on in January of last year and that was really fun because she was live on the International Space Station at the time.
0:56.0	Can't get me better than that.
0:58.0	That's a pretty good get.
1:00.0	Although when I talked to her again, she was in Houston at the end of last year.
1:04.4	We pointed out that's five times farther away than the International Space Station
1:09.2	when it flies overhead.
1:10.8	But last year you joined us to talk about your space for art and other projects and now today we're going to talk about your book back to Earth and the subtitle is what life in space taught me about our home planet and our mission to protect it.
1:25.0	And I want to start as I always do Nicole playing a game called judging books by their covers.
1:31.0	You're never supposed to do that, but you know, what else can you use to understand
1:36.2	what a book is about. So this is a lovely book. Your publisher sent it to me earlier the year. I've been just dying to get it in as many versions as possible.
1:45.0	There's a link in the video description below. So please click there. But I wanted to start off by asking you to describe how you came up with the cover, the title and the subtitle.
1:57.0	Well, I think I'll start with the title and the subtitle, if that's okay. The title was something that I think from the time I was
2:09.6	starting to think about writing a book that title title was with me, this whole idea of Back to Earth.
2:16.8	And what it really is referring to is how we take, you know, all this amazing work we've been doing as of this international
2:25.8	community on the International Space Station and how we bring that back to Earth
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