Meet the Astronaut Who (Also) Got Stuck in Space

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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4.8 • 1.6K 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.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	I think after a couple years you would be a jellyfish like you wouldn't be able to come back to Earth.
0:11.0	The gravity would kill you, I think.
0:14.0	Right after this ad.
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1:07.0	How do you describe your old job to people like if you're at a cocktail party or something what do you tell people that you used to do?
1:20.0	So generally I try to avoid it. I was a coach when my kids are 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,
1:34.0	you're an astronaut. And I was like, yeah. He's like, I've been on your team for years,
1:38.8	no one ever say anything. I'm like, I know I was worried about, you know,
1:41.3	teaching him how to turn a double play and, you how to hit the cutoff man I wasn't worried about being an astronaut so I normally don't say anything unless somebody asks.
1:48.4	Okay so this is astronaut Terry Vertz, our special guest for today's show, and the reason I decided to start asking Terry Vertz some questions, space questions in particular is because this happened.
2:06.0	Three two one ignition and lift off of Starliner at Atlas 5 carrying two American heroes.
2:17.0	It was supposed to be an eight day mission, but problems with the Boeing Starliner means two of NASA's astronauts will now spend around eight months in orbit.
2:28.0	Starliner where there was a little bit of action the other day.
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