From Spacewalker To Deep Sea Diver

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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After she visited the very bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, Kathy Sullivan became the very first human to both fly to space and reach the deepest part of the ocean. We talk with her about about what drew her to the deepest part of the deep sea, what's so powerful about the power of discovery and why you, too, should follow your dreams.

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0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette.
0:20.0	I'm Greta Johnson and today's episode is about three things.
0:24.2	Pressure, adventure, and grit.
0:28.0	In 1984, Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman
0:32.1	to go on a spacewalk.
0:33.7	And in June just a couple weeks ago,
0:36.4	she became the first woman to travel
0:38.4	to the lowest point in the ocean.
0:41.0	That makes her the first human being to visit both outer space and deep, deep sea.
0:47.0	Fresh off this truly amazing mission, we got a hold of Kathy to ask her why a 68 year old woman decided to travel to the bottom of the
0:55.8	ocean in the middle of a global pandemic, and what's so important about going to places that humans have
1:02.2	never been before. Plus we'll talk about why when it comes to your dreams you should follow your gut.
1:08.0	Kathy, welcome to Nurdett.
1:10.0	Hi, I regret to be with you.
1:12.0	So yeah, as the first person who has both gone to outer space and the deepest depths of the ocean,
1:19.0	are they similar?
1:21.0	Well, the two environments are not at all similar. They're utterly
1:26.0	different in countless ways. The experience of getting there and the engineering
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