This Episode Was Recorded from Space

Science Quickly

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman interviewed NASA flight engineer Matthew Dominick live—from space! In this first-ever interview conducted from the International Space Station’s (ISS’s) iconic cupola, Dominick talks about his path to space, his experience on the ISS and his incredible astrophotography. You can listen to the full video and watch the changing light from the cupola at the link below. Watch the First-Ever Interview from the ISS Cupola https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/learn-how-astronauts-take-photos-from-nasa-in-flight-engineer-matthew/ E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Matthew Dominick. Our show is edited by Jeff DelViscio with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Scientific American, this is Mission Control, Houston.
0:36.6	Station, this is Scientific American. How do you hear me?
0:40.2	A loud and clear. Welcome to the cupola on the space station.
0:44.5	Matthew Dominic just wants to give us all a little bit of space.
0:48.4	As the commander and flight engineer of NASA's SpaceX Crew 8 mission,
0:52.4	he's had loads of technical duties to attend to and science
0:55.5	experiments to help out with while aboard the International Space Station, including one that
1:00.0	meant he was banned from using the ISS treadmill, but more on that later. Still, throughout his
1:06.0	mission, he's found plenty of time to take and share stunning photos, videos, and time lapses from orbit.
1:13.5	For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. I recorded this episode live with Matt
1:18.5	on September 5th, when he joined us via video call from actual space. I know, right? So cool.
1:24.8	If you want to see the video, which trust me, you definitely do, check out our show
1:29.2	notes for a link to the whole interview on YouTube. Matt, thanks so much for taking the time
1:35.1	to chat with me today. So excited to do so. Yeah, so where exactly are you calling in from?
1:41.4	Because I understand it's a pretty big deal and not just because you're
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