Flying Cars & Pilotless Planes with NASA Engineer, Wendy Okolo, PhD.

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How would flying on Mars be different? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore aeronautics, aerodynamics, airplanes and more with NASA aerospace engineer and author Wendy Okolo, PhD.

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0:00.0	Up next, we take a look at the field of aerospace engineering.
0:05.4	That's a place we have yet to visit on Star Talk.
0:08.8	We bring in a PhD expert and we talk about all things related to flight.
0:14.0	What are the forces that keep you flying?
0:16.0	Why don't airplanes fly at very high altitude where there's less air resistance?
0:21.0	There's a reason for that.
0:22.0	Also, what is a blended wing?
0:24.8	That and more on Star Talk coming up.
0:28.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:38.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:42.0	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Quarry's Edition.
0:46.0	I'm Neil Degrass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:50.0	I got with me my co-host Matt Kirchen,
0:52.6	Matt, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:55.0	It's always nice to be back.
0:56.2	How's it going, Neil?
0:57.2	Good, good, good, you're comedic fellow,
1:00.4	but specializing in science with a podcast with the word science in it and I always forget the title of it
1:06.3	what's it's probably science because probably playing
1:10.0	very unsure of our credentials okay you're still working on whether it's actually science or not.
1:16.0	Okay.
1:17.0	I'd actually I say we're actually, we're actually very sure of our lack of credentials.
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