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Welcome to StarTalk Live, my name is Scott Hansson.

I will be your co-host to see you next.

And I want to tell you about our special guest host tonight.

You know, he was floating up in his tin can, singing to us.

This is Colonel Commander Chris Hanfield.

Welcome everybody back to awesome con, to future con, and to StarTalk Live.

Here we are in StarTalk.

I think everybody here knows this gentleman next to me has been on 30 Rock extensively.

He's a producer, he's a director, he's an actor, he's a voice actor, he's a writer.

Everything in adults, it is a pleasure to be on stage with Mr. Scott Adstead.

Thank you.

We have some interesting folks to be on stage here this evening, including one virtual guest that we'll bring up later.

But first I would like to introduce, she is an electrical engineer.

She's a recovering rocket scientist, Catherine Krak.

And we have a gentleman joining us as well, an engineer.

He's a professor of mechanical engineering, he's a superhero science expert, Dr. Savine Muthledew.

Also tonight, on the non scientist side, she's an author, a comedian, and she hosts the podcast, Maven America.

Maven Higgins.

Thank you.

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