What's It Like To Live In Space? One Astronaut Says It Changes Her Dreams

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

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Summary

Few humans have had the opportunity to see Earth from space, much less live in space. We got to talk to one of these lucky people — NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. She will soon conclude her nearly seven month stay on the International Space Station.

Transmitting from space to your ears, Loral talks to host Regina G. Barber about her dreams in microgravity, and her research on the ISS: 3D-printing human heart tissue, how the human brain and body adapt to microgravity, and how space changes the immune systems of plants.

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0:18.0	Welcome aboard Space Station.
0:20.0	You're listening to Shortwave
0:22.0	from NPR.
0:25.0	There are some big perks to working at NPR.
0:28.0	Seen tiny desk concerts with cool musicians, the big goods people bring in, but honestly my favorite
0:35.0	part is getting to talk to astronauts while they're floating in space.
0:39.0	Hi Regina, this is Laura Lohara. I have you loud and clear welcome aboard Space Station.
0:43.7	Oh my gosh that's a that's quite the welcome I like it.
0:47.6	Laurel how are you doing? I am excellent we have a busy day on board space station today getting ready for our
0:56.6	we got the opportunity to talk with Laurel O'Hara an astronaut who's been orbiting
1:01.3	the Earth for about six months.
1:03.2	She's living in the International Space Station,
1:05.8	and experience few humans have had.
1:08.2	It's hard for me to imagine what it'd be like to live there,
1:12.3	much less look out the window every day and see
1:15.1	Earth.
1:16.1	The first time I got to look out the window was on the Soyuz spacecraft on my way to
1:21.6	space station, and first I saw Earth. the Soyuz spacecraft on my way to Space Station.
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