Mission Interplanetary: Sharing Space

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Space begins some sixty-two miles above the surface of the Earth, but for most people it feels far more distant. Cady and Andrew talk with Ellen Stofan, Under Secretary for Science and Research at the Smithsonian, about bringing space closer to people. Also, space debris in the news, the problem with rotating space stations, and a new Sounds of Space. This week’s Sounds of Space from the great folks at System Sounds. Hosts Cady Coleman & Andrew Maynard Twitter Interplanetary Initiative: @II_ASU Cady Coleman: @Astro_Cady Andrew Maynard: @2020science Ellen Stofan: @EllenStofan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am excited for this episode.
0:21.7	Why is that?
0:22.7	Mostly because of last episode where we talked about space debris and I really was very
0:29.7	proud of bringing sort of a status of what is complicated about this and is it worse
0:34.0	than before and all those kinds of things and then really it's been a wild few weeks
0:39.8	here.
0:40.8	It has.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:42.8	I mean, so as well as a fascinating conversation, we're actually living through space debris
0:46.5	at the moment.
0:47.5	And I think it just highlights how complicated the problem really is even with the recent
0:52.4	SpaceX launch when we launched a crew to the station, the second crew to go on a SpaceX
0:57.4	capsule, they had a piece of debris which just now explained during staging, broke off
1:03.8	from one part and passed by, didn't know harm.
1:07.2	But then they also had a piece of debris that they were tracking.
1:11.1	And this was about six hours into the flight and they had the crew get into their spaces.
1:16.5	Right.
1:17.5	And it brings it home, doesn't it?
1:19.0	And it especially must bring it home to you.
1:21.0	When you suddenly realize this could be life and death, I mean, we're not playing here
1:26.4	when you're up there and you've potentially got something hurtling to you at several
1:30.4	thousand miles an hour.
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