Working at mission control, a scary cloud and how to make a hadron collider
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Libby Jackson is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency, and she chats to Dan all about what she does, how she got into her job and all about what scientists want to achieve in space in the future.
Plus Dangerous Dan is looking at the Himiko cloud - the largest object in the known universe, France are upping their wolf population and Professor Hallux is looking at skin.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB Digital Radio across the UK or online at FunKidsLive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Right then, let's go. Hello, welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Thank you so much for giving us a listen. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Dan. This is the place where only the most amazing, weird and |
| 0:22.4 | deadly things in the universe are allowed to get through the door. And we've got a bit of a spacey |
| 0:27.2 | themed show actually today. We're learning about what scientists think is the largest thing in the |
| 0:34.1 | universe in this week's dangerous, Dan, in a bit bit. Also we'll chat to Libby Jackson in a |
| 0:38.1 | sec. Now Libby applied for school for some work experience at NASA. I know. So many people |
| 0:45.0 | have work experience down the local shop at the post office. She went big all the way to NASA. |
| 0:50.9 | And then years later she got to control her own mission into space. |
| 0:54.7 | And we'll get one of your science questions answered by our expert, Tom, as well. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, it's all about one of the most famous experiments in science history. |
| 1:04.1 | That's on the way later. |
| 1:05.1 | First, let's head down then to the dark depths of the universe, to the only school in the solar system, |
| 1:10.5 | and find out why soon we could go |
| 1:12.9 | to holiday in space. Deep Space High, Spaceport. Okay, everyone at Deep Space High, I'm ready to transmit |
| 1:21.0 | my presentation on Spaceports. You're going to love it. Transmitting in three, two, one. |
| 1:30.3 | Have you ever imagined being an astronaut, experiencing weightlessness as you orbit the Earth, maybe visiting a neighbouring planet? |
| 1:39.3 | Now, obviously, we're pretty lucky because we get to go to Deep Space High. |
| 1:43.3 | But check this out. In the near future, everyone on Earth might have a chance to go into space |
| 1:50.0 | and fly in the same way as they travel by air from airports. |
| 1:53.0 | All thanks to space ports. Just imagine, a holiday on Jupiter. |
| 1:59.0 | A trip to the moon and back. |
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