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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0:35.4	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:39.0	I'm Greta Johnson, and today's episode is about three things.
0:48.1	Pressure, adventure, and grit. In 1984, Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to go on a spacewalk. And in June, just a couple weeks ago, she became the first woman to travel to the lowest point in the
0:55.4	ocean. That makes her the first human being to visit both outer space and deep, deep sea.
1:03.5	Fresh off this truly amazing mission, we got a hold of Kathy to ask her why a 68-year-old woman
1:09.6	decided to travel to the bottom of the ocean in the
1:12.1	middle of a global pandemic and what's so important about going to places that humans have
1:17.7	never been before. Plus, we'll talk about why when it comes to your dreams, you should follow
1:22.7	your gut. Kathy, welcome to Nerdette. Hi, I'm glad to be with you.
1:35.8	So, yeah, as the first person who has both gone to outer space and the deepest depths of the ocean, are they similar?
1:40.7	Well, the two environments are not at all similar.
1:43.3	They're utterly different in countless ways.
1:46.5	The experience of getting there and the engineering needed to take human beings to those places do have some traits in common.
1:55.6	Leaving the planet to go into orbit around the Earth is a very intense, brief, explosive
2:03.6	event.
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