Blast off for first privately-funded spacewalk
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The SpaceX mission will break the record for most people in vacuum of space at once. Also: women in Afghanistan speak out about the Taliban law silencing them in public, and Australia's plan to get children off social media.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.5 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.2 | We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 10th of September. |
| 0:11.7 | A privately funded rocket has blasted off on a mission |
| 0:14.2 | to carry out the first space walk by civilian astronauts. The UN condemns a lethal Israeli |
| 0:19.7 | air strike on a humanitarian zone in Gaza and China's crackdown on corruption in football |
| 0:24.8 | sees 43 people banned for life. Also in the podcast why has chocolate become so expensive? |
| 0:34.0 | What he's explaining here is that these are all small family farms. |
| 0:41.0 | They're not industrial processes at all and they're producing all this cocoa. |
| 0:46.5 | We visit farmers in the Ivory Coast and the row over the use of music in video games. |
| 0:55.0 | A privately funded SpaceX mission has taken off from Florida with the aim of going further from Earth than any man's |
| 1:04.7 | craft for more than half a century. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3. If all goes to plan the Polaris Dawn mission will feature the first ever |
| 1:26.7 | privately funded spacewalk as reflected in a message from mission control. |
| 1:31.0 | Dragon SpaceX today you embark on a journey not just for yourselves, but for all humanity. |
| 1:36.8 | Each of you has trained tirelessly and prepared rigorously for this moment. |
| 1:39.9 | The moment will be reached higher in to space never before. |
| 1:42.7 | As you gaze towards the North Star, |
| 1:44.4 | remember that your courage lights the path |
| 1:45.9 | or future explorers. |
| 1:47.2 | We trust in your skills, your bravery, and your teamwork |
| 1:49.7 | to carry out the mission that lies ahead. |
| 1:51.4 | Know that the entire team back here is with you every step. |
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