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Whose Amazing Life?

The Astronaut (Encore)

Whose Amazing Life?

Wondery

Stories For Kids, Imagined Life, Kids & Family

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You're used to relying on yourself to succeed in a man’s world — and you’ve proved yourself everywhere from the tennis court to Stanford University. But in the 1970s, there’s still one place no woman has gone before: outer space.


This time, if you want to succeed, you can’t do it alone. You’re going to have to learn how to be part of a team.



The episode originally aired June 16, 2021

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0:00.0

Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to Who's Amazing Life Early and Ad Free right now.

0:05.0

Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry App or Wundry Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts. from Wundery, I'm Virginia Madsen and this is Who's Amazing Life?

0:26.1

I'm Virginia Madsen and this is Who's Amazing Life. You've heard of people who changed the course of history but before they made their mark on the world they were people like

0:30.8

you and me still figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives.

0:35.0

On this episode, you will be that person everyone knows.

0:40.0

You might be a musician, or an athlete, a scientist, or a painter.

0:48.0

You may know what the person accomplished later in life, but now you can experience everything they faced along the way.

0:55.6

From challenges and heartbreak to triumphs and excitement, all the moments that built this person

1:01.8

into someone who would change the world.

1:04.8

There will be clues to who you are.

1:07.1

So pay attention, but only at the end will you find out who you are. So sit back and imagine your amazing life as the astronaut.

1:17.0

Imagine.

1:21.0

Imagine. Imagine you're nine years old and the soles of your shoes are caked with dark red

1:30.1

powder. You feel a slight bounce under your feet as you cross the clay tennis court

1:35.4

towards your waiting mom. She wraps her arms around you adjusting the grip on the

1:40.1

handle of a tennis racket. The tape wrapped around the wooden handle feels

1:44.4

sticky under your fingers. You shift your grip and you can feel the weight of

1:48.9

the racket change. Here, hold it like this. There you go.

1:54.0

Your mom lets go, and the top of the wooden racket

1:57.0

droops a bit before you get a stronger grip on it.

2:00.0

You like the way the weight feels in your hands. It feels natural like it belongs

2:06.3

there. Are you ready? You bend your knees a bit bouncing on the balls of your feet. You feel

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