Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Space Probes with Dr. Amy Mainzer

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🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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JPL astrophysicist Dr. Amy Mainzer and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore your questions about space probes from WISE to New Horizons. Now with a new 13-minute “Venusian Update” from Dr. FunkySpoon about what Venus can teach us about climate change.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Hi everybody and welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:24.0	My name is Amy Meinser and I'm a astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
0:29.0	I'm here guest hosting with my wonderful co-host Chuck Nice.
0:34.0	Hey Amy how are you?
0:36.0	I'm doing great.
0:37.0	Yeah yeah good to see you.
0:39.0	Good to be here with you.
0:40.0	Today we're going to talk about spacecraft.
0:43.0	Yes that's right space probes and something you would know about because as we have talked off the air I found out that you were an engineer for quite some time with Lockheed Martin and building spacecraft.
0:57.0	Yes that was my other life my alter ego.
1:00.0	You know and it's so weird because when I think about Lockheed Martin what comes to mind I envision like the underground layer of a bond villain.
1:11.0	You know like there's no walls there's just rock and titanium everywhere and guys walking around in white jumpsuits with clipboards and hard hats.
1:19.0	What's it like?
1:21.0	Do you have a security clearance number one?
1:23.0	No security clearance but I would say there were a lot more guys wearing socks with sandals.
1:30.0	Lots of socks with sandals.
1:32.0	There was one really cool tunnel that went a long ways and the walls were made out of rock.
1:38.0	Yeah.
1:39.0	Yeah actually there were.
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