From The Physics Of G-Force To Weightlessness: How It Feels To Launch Into Space

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

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It feels like this is the summer of space launches. So, it's only appropriate that we kick off our new series Space Camp with a look at space launches. Throughout the series, Regina and Emily will plumb our universe to uncover the strange, wonderful things happening all around us. This episode, that entails answering a series of questions about getting to space: What does hurtling into space feel like? What physics are involved? And what's the "junk" in Earth's orbit?

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0:00.0	Black perspectives haven't always been centered in the telling of America's story.
0:05.0	Now we're taking center stage.
0:08.0	Introducing NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths,
0:12.0	a collection of Black-led stories from NPR's podcasts.
0:15.9	Search NPR Black Stories, Black Truths, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:28.0	Hey Shortwavers, Regina Barbara here with some exciting news all summer long we'll be reporting out a new series
0:34.7	we're calling space camp every Tuesday for the next nine weeks me and my co-pilot
0:39.6	Emily Kwong hi Gina hey we going to travel deep into space M.
0:43.6	Yeah.
0:44.6	And we're going to explore all of the wild inspiring phenomena in our universe like different kinds of planets,
0:49.6	stars, and even black holes.
0:51.6	And we're starting right here on planet Earth with launch.
0:54.7	To quite literally launch our series and also because there's been a lot of launches
0:59.1	into space recently and just the last week there was Boeing's Starliner. Then there was SpaceX's
1:05.8	Starship which was crueless and a bit more of a test. Yes, so let's buckle up
1:09.6	M and let's start our launch of this series.
1:19.0	Launch is something that Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Wendy Lawrence is very familiar with. She was an astronaut from 1992 to 2006
1:22.0	and her first launch was in 1995 on the space shuttle
1:25.1	Endeavor. Launch is one of those things that you always look forward to it
1:29.3	never got boring. She remembers as a very surreal experience.
1:34.0	The moment that really kind of crystallizes it for you
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