Ep. 645: The Future of the ISS
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh |
| 0:30.0 | A strong cast episode 645 the future of the International Space Station. Welcome to a strong |
| 0:55.3 | Academy Cast for Weekly Fact Space during through the Cosmos where we help you understand |
| 0:58.6 | not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher |
| 1:02.9 | of Universe Today and i've been a space astronomy journalist for over 20 years with me, as |
| 1:07.0 | always, as Dr Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute, and, the |
| 1:12.0 | Directive Cosmic Question. |
| 1:13.0 | So how to how do you do it? |
| 1:14.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:15.6 | How are you doing Fraser? |
| 1:17.4 | Good very good. |
| 1:20.2 | So how did your 그러면 calendar experience go? |
| 1:24.2 | I got to see them. It was complicated by lightning bugs that created sheer chaos because it was |
| 1:32.3 | sometimes hard to figure out was that a meteor or a lightning bug. But we saw them and at peak, |
| 1:40.3 | we were seeing one to three per five minutes, which is pretty good. They were a lot fainter than |
| 1:48.0 | the land. It's back in 1998 and that made me sad. But I went camping at a dark site and I have |
| 1:55.5 | no regrets. And somewhere in southern Illinois is a raccoon that stole an entire brat worst. |
| 2:03.2 | Oh, good on you, raccoon. We were clouded and rained out. So no luck. But there was a few |
| 2:11.8 | sucker holes we tried, but it also was dark. It gets dark very late here in the summer now, like not |
| 2:17.3 | until almost 11 o'clock. And so there was like a tiny little gaps in the cloud, but we couldn't |
| 2:22.8 | really see anything. And we're like, and I wasn't seeing people freaking out on Twitter about |
| 2:28.1 | it being a full on storm. So we called it. But hopefully the Perseids will, will better entertain us. |
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