Eco-friendly space travel is closer than we think!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It's a Saturday, and you know what that means! You're here to whizz around the solar system with Dan, and soon you could be in a reusable spacecraft! Our guest on the Science Weekly podcast this week is space expert Catherine Muller from the National Space Centre, here to chat all about the new Boeing Starliner! Hear about its development, what NASA plans to do with it, and what the future holds for climate friendly space travel.
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| 0:00.0 | An out-of-this-world kid's drama, the space program, a tiny Scottish island is |
| 0:07.6 | shocked to find itself the base for a new shuttle flight. And one of the |
| 0:19.0 | islands kids will be the world's first child astronaut. A gripping drama |
| 0:24.8 | serial coming to fun kids. |
| 0:34.8 | In the next episode of the space program, Fridays at 4.30pm will get access to all |
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| 0:55.7 | Right, you've had about a week to recover from the jet lag of touching back |
| 1:00.3 | down on Earth and we're going right back up. Through the universe it's another |
| 1:05.0 | episode of the fun kids science weekly. My name's Dan, this is the show where we |
| 1:12.0 | take a look all through the universe, the galaxy, the solar system. We search |
| 1:15.6 | out all those science secrets lurking nearby. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:21.6 | Remember, if you subscribe to fun kids podcast plus you'll get this podcast |
| 1:26.6 | loads more bonus stuff as well completely add free. Now this week we're |
| 1:30.8 | chatting to a space genius all about the world's first ever renewable spacecraft. |
| 1:35.8 | One of the new things that lots of different companies are trying to do at |
| 1:40.4 | the moment to make space travel more green is create reusable spacecraft that we |
| 1:45.2 | can use over and over and over again. And Boeing have a new one called Starliner |
| 1:50.9 | that hopefully if everything goes all right with it we'll be able to use it |
| 1:54.6 | over and over again to get people to and from space. And we'll stay up |
| 1:59.3 | floating around the galaxy and head to deep space high to learn all about space |
| 2:03.5 | weather. Well that's space weather. Disturbances in space near a planet that |
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