How to BEAT failure, CRUSH obstacles, and THRIVE with NASA Spacewalker Scott Parazynski! (#117)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Scott Parazynski is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's phenomenal book, THE SKY BELOW, tells the gripping first-person account of life at the Universe's extremes. Join me in the live chat with Scott Scott is also the founder of https://fluidity.tech/ Fluidity Tech is a Houston-based technology company focused on redefining movement through 3-dimensional space. Founded by former NASA astronaut, pilot and physician, Scott Parazynski, the company’s mission is to simplify and improve motion. In Fall 2018, Fluidity Tech introduced the FT Aviator, its first patented drone controller designed to dramatically increase the precision of drone flight, while tremendously simplifying it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	I'm talking today with a phenomenal hero of mine, someone that I've admired for a very long time. I did an experiment. I reached out to him on
0:16.2	LinkedIn and he said yes. So this is great. This is wonderful to welcome to the
0:21.4	Into the Impossible podcast, none other than Dr Scott
0:24.4	Parazinsky how are you today's Scott?
0:27.3	Great to be with you Ryan I'm thrilled to be part of this you know
0:30.3	podcast with with you and and yeah I've been very admiring of the work that you've done and
0:37.4	all of the stuff you did in Antarctica in particular that's an area where we
0:40.4	overlap so I want to hear some stories from you too.
0:43.0	Absolutely you know I was before I got to the last chapter of the sky below I was like
0:49.7	awesome I've been to somewhere this guy has not been this guy is a literal cosmic voyager but I've been to the South Pole and in chapter 25 you're like one place I haven't been is the South is Antarctica and I'm like yeah
1:04.6	gonna be do something go boldly where Scott has not gone before and then chapter
1:09.5	26 I'm not gonna spoil it Scott ends up there and he finds a very expensive rock.
1:15.0	I'm not going to talk too much about that but I love that story. It's a phenomenal story.
1:20.0	Scott, welcome to the Into the Impossible Podcast. I remarked to you that you are not the first astronaut, not the second, not that they're not, well you are the fourth astronaut. But you have a first, you've gone boldly where no man has gone before because you're my first male
1:33.7	astronaut to ever come on the into the impossible. I think that's really exciting you
1:38.2	know it's so emblematic of the fact that you know there are more and more women as part of the
1:43.9	program doing you out on the cutting edge of space exploration and that's only
1:48.0	going to increase as as the years go along so I'm glad to be the first male on your show.
1:54.0	Yeah. Astronaut, I should say.
1:56.0	Yeah, it's a real treat and I think the stories that you tell really are so gripping. I mean I couldn't I couldn't you
2:06.3	know turn off the I listened to the book as I do most of the time I actually have
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