Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Encounter in Huntsville, Alabama

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🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recorded this week at the US Space and Rocket Center with astronaut Don Thomas, 94-year-old Apollo engineer Alex McCool, and Alabama Senator Doug Jones. Bruce Betts sets us on a search for the nearest black hole in this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest. Learn and hear more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0829-2018-huntsville-doug-jones.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Meet me at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center with Senator Doug Jones this week on
0:05.2	planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our
0:16.3	solar system and beyond.
0:18.4	I'd always wanted to visit Huntsville, Alabama.
0:21.2	I finally made it down there a couple of weeks ago. The experience was even more
0:25.0	thrilling and lightning and humbling than I'd hope for. We will tour the history-making
0:31.1	Marshall Space Flight Center next week.
0:34.0	But our trip begins this week at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, not far from Marshall.
0:39.0	I'd have visited the center regardless, but it's good people also loaned me their conference room for the conversation with
0:46.1	Alabama's new senator that you'll hear later in today's episode. It's a hard place to miss even
0:52.2	when you're still a mile or two away along Interstate 565.
0:56.0	It's the life-sized Saturn 5 model standing 36 stories tall that takes your breath away.
1:02.0	I was greeted by Pat Ammons, the
1:04.0	Center's director of communications. We had barely made it through the
1:07.6	entrance when... I was just walking into the Space and Rocket Center with some of
1:12.2	the staff here and an astronaut comes the other way.
1:15.2	Don Thomas.
1:16.2	It's great to be with you today, man.
1:18.6	I hear that you come here from Ohio.
1:21.1	I actually live in Baltimore.
1:22.3	I grew up in Ohio, but I actually live in Baltimore. I grew up in Ohio but I currently live in
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