The International Space Station: A Space Age Cathedral

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

While cathedrals give people a place to contemplate Heaven from our place here on Earth, astronauts on the ISS can view Earth from "the heavens" above. This show highlights the many ways the ISS is like a modern-day cathedral.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.7	Welcome to Star Talk, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:19.6	I'm also the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of
0:23.9	Natural History.
0:25.7	This, me today, is my co-host, is Chuck Nice.
0:28.8	And one of the cosmic themes that we'll be touching today is the concept, the construction,
0:35.4	the maintenance, and the running of the International Space Station and other grand architectural
0:40.5	visions that human beings have had throughout time.
0:43.6	Sweet.
0:44.6	And later in the show, we're going to invite a friend and architect, grand architect, Jim
0:51.9	Palschack, who will be joining us a little later.
0:54.4	But before then, we have a very special guest that we'll be tapping into and it's astronaut
1:02.3	Shannon Walker.
1:03.3	You know, you shouldn't say tapping into a female astronaut.
1:06.8	Excuse me.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:08.8	Okay, fine.
1:09.8	I'm just saying we will be communicating with.
1:11.2	I'm just saying, yeah, communication is fine.
1:13.2	Okay.
1:14.2	You're the one with the...
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