In Search of Lost Time

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Why do some days fly by, while others never seem to end? Have we been stuck in a time warp since March 2020? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to astronaut Christina Koch about how her perception of time changed during her 11 months in space – the single longest spaceflight by a woman. Plus, we hear from an experimental psychologist about why our time perception has felt so off in the pandemic, and a philosopher shares the secret to “mental time travel” ... no time machines required! To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to go back in time a bit to March 14th, 2019.
0:05.6	Now that's a really important date in your life and I'm wondering if you can share why.
0:11.3	That's the date that I took off on a rocket and went to space for almost 11 months.
0:17.3	Monchman has been issued booster ignition and liftoff.
0:22.5	We have liftoff of Nick Hake and Christina Cook now on their way to the International Space
0:27.4	Station.
0:28.4	This actual physical sensation is a lot like being on a roller coaster.
0:33.1	Maybe one of the older roller coasters is quite a smoothest of the newer ones.
0:36.6	One minute into the flight, everything looking good so far.
0:39.5	Basically there are three stages and as the rocket accelerates you feel more and more
0:43.9	G forces until that stage cuts off and then you sort of lurch forward and you wait for
0:49.2	the second stage to ignite and then the process starts over again.
0:53.1	Six minutes, thirty seconds into the flight crew feeling good.
0:56.3	Everything looking good so far for this last stage.
1:00.0	And after eight minutes of being on the rocket power and just going up and having the
1:05.9	force of gravity, the G forces on you for that long.
1:10.4	There's really nowhere else you can be but space.
1:13.0	Debaration is confirmed.
1:14.4	Moral legs, congratulations.
1:16.6	Mission control Moscow is standing by.
1:19.7	And sure enough when that third stage cut off.
1:26.0	I looked over at my friend Nick and we both kind of floated a little bit out of our seats
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