When Astronauts Come Home

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week, we’re revisiting an intergalactic favorite: Preparing for a mission to space takes astronauts years, but listener Daniel wants to know — what does the other end of that journey look like? Record-holding NASA astronaut Christina Koch tells us what happens when space travelers come home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have reached the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:05.0	Please leave your message in T-minus 3.
0:08.0	Two, one.
0:10.0	Please make a mission and with all to the same station to take you.
0:17.0	Hi, Flora, and the ELT team.
0:22.1	My name is Daniel, and I was wondering, what does a astronaut do when they get back to Earth?
0:29.2	Like, do they just take a vacation?
0:32.2	Do they chill out?
0:33.3	Like, what do they do?
0:35.8	I guess it is a factual merchant's depot.
0:38.2	I really, really know.
0:43.8	Hello?
0:45.0	Greetings. It's Flora from ELT.
0:47.4	Hi, Florida. How you doing?
0:49.4	I'm good. I have a few questions for you before factual liftoff.
0:54.2	All right. Why are you calling about this? I'm a few questions for you before factual liftoff. All right.
0:55.0	Why are you calling about this?
0:57.3	I'm a space nerd.
0:58.8	Let's make that very clear right off the bat.
1:01.4	Are we talking ISS lower back tattoo, level of space nerd?
1:06.0	Not yet, but okay, like I haven't been to Disneyland or anything like that, but my Disneyland trip was Houston two years ago. So I met up with a friend of a friend who worked at NASA and he actually gave me a behind the scenes tour of the Houston Space Center. And I thought I was just going to be able to see, like, you know, a couple models or, you know,
1:29.8	some equipment or something like that.
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