Meet the Astronaut Who (Also) Got Stuck in Space
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Two NASA astronauts are in the midst of an extended, headline-grabbing, eight-month stay in orbit. So we turned to Terry Virts, former commander of the International Space Station, as our official PTFO Outer Space Correspondent. Because he was stranded there for 200 days after his cargo ship blew up — low on underwear, polo shirts and his beloved borscht. Turns out, there are way worse places to be than staring out a Russian dorm-room window while watching bombs, auroras, typhoons and the very essence of human nature, from 250 miles up. Also: how to pee, dream and listen to Hans Zimmer without gravity. (Hint: Do not raw-dog the universe.)
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| 1:02.7 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this |
| 1:07.7 | sound is. I think after a couple years, you would be a jellyfish. |
| 1:11.7 | Like, you wouldn't be able to come back to Earth. |
| 1:13.7 | The gravity would kill you, I think. |
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| 1:39.4 | what do you tell people that you used to do? So generally, I try to avoid it. I was a coach. When my kids are |
| 1:45.2 | growing up, I coached, you know, my son and my daughters, all their different sports. I'm a baseball guy, so I coached baseball for years. And like, kind of like at the end of Little League, one of the dads came up to me and said, you're an astronaut. And I was like, yeah, he's like, I've been on your team for years. No one ever say anything. I'm like, I know. I was worried |
| 1:43.2 | about, you know, teaching him how to turn a double play and, you know, how to hit the cutoff, man. I wasn't worried about being an astronaut. So I normally don't say anything unless somebody asks. |
| 2:13.7 | Okay. So this is astronaut Terry Verst, our special guest for today's show, |
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