What’s It Like To Live On The Edge? with Astronaut & Oceanographer Kathy Sullivan

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Earth to listeners! This week’s Getting Curious is serving an adventure like no other, because Jonathan is talking with astronaut, oceanographer, and geologist Kathy Sullivan. She’s the first US woman to complete a spacewalk, the first woman to reach the deepest known point in the ocean, and the first person to travel to both space and deep sea. She tells Jonathan all about space tools, the Challenger Deep, and what it’s like to feel the force of gravity during a shuttle landing. Follow Kathy on Twitter @AstroKDS, learn more about her at www.kathysullivanastronaut.com, and check out her book Handprints on Hubble. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venness, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation
0:05.1	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:08.8	On today's episode, I'm joined by a triple threat, a geologist, an astronaut, and oceanographer
0:14.6	Kathy Sullivan, where I ask her what's it like to live on the edge.
0:19.9	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Venness. I'm so excited for this week's episode
0:23.8	because we have a scientific triple threat. We have Kathy Sullivan, you are an oceanographer,
0:30.4	you're a geologist, you're an astronaut, and also if people don't know, you are the first person
0:37.5	that ever has completed a spacewalk and gone to the deepest part of the ocean known to me.
0:43.6	So the question for today is, what is it like to live on that edge Kathy Sullivan, welcome.
0:50.2	Hey Jonathan, great to be with you. You are just an icon in the three scientific fields that I
0:59.8	just said. I mean you are, you just have such an incredible story career. I've spent the last
1:05.9	few days watching some videos of you on doing spacewalks, seeing you, I mean I just have the chills.
1:13.4	It's just so cool. It's been a grand fun adventure, that's for sure.
1:20.2	I mean I will say, so I kind of wanted to think about today's interview in kind of three chunks,
1:27.4	and I wanted to kind of cover space in the first bit and then more of the ocean journey in the
1:32.3	second bit and then kind of zoom out and talk more about science a little bit more generally
1:37.2	in the end. But it's interesting because you from what I understand, you got your start in oceanography
1:44.5	and then got recruited into NASA, right? Yeah, I was in grad school working on a PhD in basically
1:51.6	deep sea floor geology when NASA started putting the advertisements out for the spatial program.
1:57.3	So the just really fortuitous timing. So you get into NASA and you realize that you are going to go
2:07.6	to space. What is that conversation and process like? It's a very obscure and mysterious process
2:17.0	actually. So 35 of us join NASA at the same time in the group of 1978. I think you're about a
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