MIDWEEKLY: We Chat To A Real-Life Astronaut! 🚀👨‍🚀

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, we chat to a real-life astronaut!

Meganne Christian, a British astronaut-in-training, is joining us for an exclusive chat about space, science, and why she’s passionate about inspiring the next generation of explorers.

We also catch up with the Aquanauts who, this week, are finding out about how the cost of water is built in to so many other things we need in life.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dan. Welcome to a brand new Fun Kids Science Midweekly. Every Wednesday, I pop up, a little bit of chat, and we run through some amazing science stuff for you. This week, we'll talk to a real-life astronaut. Megan Christian, a British astronaut in training, is joining us for an
0:23.5	exclusive chat, all about science, about space, and about why she's passionate about inspiring
0:29.3	the next generation of explorers. So let's find out more. I sent our Fun Kids presenter,
0:34.7	George, along with the big job of speaking to our space traveler.
0:41.8	Now, you work at the UK Space Agency and I think you have arguably the coolest job in the world or even out of it.
0:52.6	Could you please tell us what that job is? Yes. So my job at the UK
0:57.2	Space Agency is reserve astronaut and commercial exploration lead. So you are an actual astronaut,
1:04.5	which I'm sure doesn't just blow my mind, but everybody listening. What's it like being an astronaut?
1:12.0	It's a, yeah,
1:16.9	it's an interesting experience. So I was selected as a member of the Astronaut Reserve at the European Space Agency in 2022. And I guess that kind of changed my life because before that I was
1:23.8	working in a lab as a material scientist. And now I'm doing all things space, which is really
1:29.7	exciting. What was the training like to become an actual astronaut? I've just started my training.
1:35.2	So I've done the first block of my astronaut reserve training. We're doing it in around about
1:39.2	two-month blocks. And it's been really interesting so far. So we've had some human behavior and performance training, which is all about teamwork and leadership
1:48.2	and basically how you behave in different complex situations.
1:53.3	We've also had training in some sciences like biology.
1:57.2	We've been in the neutral buoyancy facility, which is where we get used to working in a kind of simulated weightless environment.
2:05.2	It's a big pool where we can practice.
2:08.2	So it's been quite a variety already.
2:11.4	It's, I mean, so fascinating.
2:14.0	And I'm sure all of our listeners are really interested to know a lot of the details.
2:19.1	But what I would love to know is, what's the dream from an astronaut's point of view?
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