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Astronomy Cast Episode 276 from Monday, October 15, 2012, XMM Newton.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, with the facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Abutsville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, I just wanted a road trip and I wanted to share something with people, which is if you've never done this, you should absolutely do this.

I live on Vancouver Island, so we often go to the United States down to Seattle.

When I was in Seattle, we just like on a whim went to the Boeing factory and it is a phenomenal place, it is amazing.

It's the largest building in the world by volume, they kept telling us this.

But you get to see these planes being built and it felt a bit like I was watching spacecraft get built.

They have 747s getting built in the way they crane them around and stuff.

So if you're ever in the Seattle area and if you live in the Seattle area and you haven't been to the Boeing factory, shame on you.

Go check it out, it's awesome. There you go, that's news you can use.

You've actually seen rockets launch and rockets constructed.

Yeah, so I've got to go tour around Johnson Space Flight Center where they are working on constructing space planes at the time.

I've been down to Kennedy and seen gray launch and seen the shuttle launch.

But no, I've never been inside one of the Boeing factories and so that sounds mighty awesome.

Yeah, it's super cool. So let's get cracking in.

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