Space trash

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Russia blew up a satellite and almost put the International Space Station in a precarious position. Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil explains how humans are trashing space. A space environmentalist (!) explains what cleanup might look like. This episode of Today, Explained was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Additional engineering by Cristian Ayala. Support Today, Explained and Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mailchimp would like to talk to you about customers.
0:03.6	A customer is what happens when marketers fail to personalise their marketing,
0:07.7	grouping customers with very different behaviours into one tangled mess.
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0:22.4	Into it MailChimp, the number one email marketing and automation brand.
0:26.7	Based on customer numbers, for verification email, advertising at MailChimp.com.
0:35.6	Hey, it's Adam. And today on the show, we're sending you to Outer Space.
0:40.4	Here's Sean Ramaswaram, host of Today Explained, and your guide to the Cosmos.
0:47.5	Remember that one movie, Gravity?
0:49.2	You said I have a bad feeling about this mission.
0:52.2	Sandy Bullock kind of stuck in space needs a ride back to Earth.
0:56.7	If you haven't seen it, you had eight years and I'm about to drop a spoiler.
1:04.8	George Clooney's character drifts off into deep space in the movie because of a space collision.
1:10.8	His character and Sandy's are performing some repairs on the Hubble telescope
1:16.5	when a cloud of space debris comes out of nowhere and...
1:21.2	I.S.S. This is Houston.
1:22.8	Roger you.
1:23.7	Explorer, this is Houston.
1:25.2	Go ahead.
1:26.2	Mission aboard.
1:27.2	Repeat.
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