Women in Space
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2003
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | This is planetary radio. Welcome back everyone. I'm Matt Kaplan. What's the subject you least expected to hear about |
| 0:21.9 | on our show about space exploration. |
| 0:24.3 | What's that you said? Sex? |
| 0:26.7 | Ah, oh I'm sorry. That just happens to be one of the many topics covered |
| 0:32.0 | by this week's guest in her great new book. |
| 0:35.4 | Stay with us for a conversation with Betty Ann Kevlis about almost heaven, the story of women |
| 0:41.6 | in space. |
| 0:43.0 | Bruce Betts will be here later and he's bringing the pizza moon. |
| 0:47.0 | First though, here's Emily. |
| 0:48.0 | She's thinking longer than miles, but shorter than light years. |
| 0:52.0 | I'll be right back. |
| 0:53.0 | I'll be right back. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, I'm Emily Lockwala with questions and answers. |
| 1:07.0 | A listener asked, who determine what the distance between the Earth and Sun is and how did they do it? The distance between the Earth and Sun is and how did they do it? |
| 1:13.0 | The distance between the Earth and the Sun is enormous. |
| 1:16.0 | It would take 12,000 Earths to bridge the distance between the Sun and the Earth. |
| 1:21.0 | For this reason, it is convenient to use the Earth's distance from the Sun |
| 1:25.0 | as a length unit for describing solar system distances. |
| 1:28.0 | Scientists call this distance an astronomical unit. |
| 1:31.4 | One astronomical unit, the distance between the Earth and Sun, is about 150 million |
| 1:36.8 | kilometers or about 93 million miles. |
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