Ep. 706: China’s Space Program

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 706: China’s Space Program by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 30, 2024. We’re so familiar with NASA’s exploration efforts in space, but you might be surprised to learn that China launches almost as many rockets as the US. They’ve got their own space exploration program that could soon bring humans to the surface of the Moon. Let’s give a brief overview of China’s space exploration plans. This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Jordan Young BogieNet Stephen Veit Jeanette Wink Siggi Kemmler Andrew Poelstra David Truog Brian Cagle Ed David Gerhard Schwarzer THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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0:54.8	Welcome to Astronomy Cast for Weekly Facts
0:56.4	Space Journey through the Cosmos,
0:57.7	where I hope you understand not only what we know,
0:59.3	but how we know what we know.
1:00.5	I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of Universe Today, with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmo Quest.
1:08.8	Hey Pamela, how you doing? I am doing well. I am happy to be back from a vacation and I'm reminded of why people go on vacations and highly recommend doing this at least once a decade. So you... I'll one of the people working on the Hubble tension trying to measure the distance to
1:35.2	Seffiid variables with unparalleled precision has now got his hands on the James
1:39.2	Lab Space Telescope. Well I finally got a chance to interview him and we talked about the work that he did in the Hubble Space Telescope to get his Nobel Prize.
1:50.0	And...
1:51.0	As a grad student.
1:52.0	Yes, and what it's been like getting his hands on James Webb and the work that he's
1:57.5	able to do and sort of the future of measuring distance in the universe and
2:01.4	it's you know everyone's always about theory and and
2:05.0	Adam Reese is about did we is the is the yard stick correct right I feel like I
2:10.9	want to check the ruler one more time and has just done just an incredible work and sort of
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