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Mission Interplanetary: A Space of One’s Own

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we ask: Should the first human mission to Mars have an all-women crew? Cady and Andrew talk with science fiction writer Mary Robinette Kowal and professional Martian Tanya Harrison about who should go to Mars. Landing on the Moon was “one small step for man.” Should we think differently about the first humans to step foot on Mars? Also, a new Sounds of Space. Hosts Cady Coleman Andrew Maynard Follow Twitter: @II_ASU @Astro_Cady @2020science @tanyaofmars @MaryRobinette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:12.7

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0:19.5

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0:23.0

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0:25.7

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something

0:28.9

goes wrong.

0:29.9

Actually, one of the things that we get trained in a lot of medical kinds of things and super

0:35.9

glue is one of the most important elements on that space station, because the only thing

0:40.8

that is scarier than a doctor coming at you with a needle is a pilot coming at you with

0:45.2

a needle.

0:47.2

It's a Katie, did you play with Legos when you were a kid?

0:58.1

No, but I played with them a lot as a mom.

1:00.6

Hi, yes, I feel the same as a dad, so actually I asked for a very specific purpose and I just

1:06.8

seen that Lego has launched an incredible 2,354 piece NASA Space Shuttle Discovery said,

1:15.1

with, wait for this, with a replica of the Hubble Space Telescope.

1:19.7

Awesome, I need one now.

1:21.9

Oh, see, that's what I was thinking, I mean, in the past you always went for the death

1:25.6

star with Lego, but now it seems like NASA and Lego have just up to the game here.

1:30.6

Well, I was actually a mean mom and I basically would buy buckets of Lego on eBay and just

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