Odysseus Lander Heads To The Moon | Ohio Chemical Spill, One Year Later

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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If successful, Odysseus will be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo mission. And, in East Palestine, Ohio, the stream that flows under residents’ houses is still polluted following a train derailment and chemical spill.

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0:00.0	Around a year ago
0:04.4	year ago in East Palestine Ohio, a freight train derailed,
0:07.7	spelling thousands of gallons of the chemical vinyl chloride into the
0:11.5	environment.
0:21.0	I don't want those waters to come in and make my family sick. And those creeks are not clean.
0:26.7	It's Friday, February 16th.
0:28.7	Happy Science Friday.
0:30.3	I'm Sci-Fi producer Charles Burgquist.
0:32.4	Later today, we'll get an update from East Palestine, Ohio,
0:35.6	and hear how the disaster is unfolded over the last year, including how residents remain frustrated
0:41.5	with cleanup efforts.
0:43.4	But first, let's join Ira Flato for a roundup of this week's top science news,
0:48.0	which includes a mission to the moon, apes who belt love songs, and a mushroom growing out of a frog.
0:55.0	Slightly after 1 a.m. on Thursday,
0:57.3	SpaceX successfully launched a commercial spacecraft
1:01.0	from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1:03.0	Its destination, the Moon.
1:05.0	Yo, on board is a lander nicknamed Odie.
1:08.0	And if it makes its way safely to the surface,
1:11.0	it'll be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo
1:15.7	era more than 50 years ago. Here with the details and more science news of the week is Casey
1:22.3	Crownhart, Climber reporter at the MIT Technology
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