Episode 134 - Astronaut and Former Commander of the ISS Colonel Chris Hadfield

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Colonel Chris Hadfield (twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield) is a highly decorated Canadian astronaut, test pilot, engineer and former commander of the Internation Space Station, and on his most most recent mission became famous for his thousands of photographs and hundreds of videos shot on the ISS, including a music video cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity that has been viewed hundreds of millions of times. Matt, Jesse and Andy were honored to be able to talk with Col. Hadfield about his experiences in the space program and his books An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here.

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0:00.0	We have to be able to fly the Soyuz, which we do in a Russian.
0:03.4	That's a real specialized skill.
0:04.7	Operate the big robot arms, do spacewalks, fly the spaceship, run the 200 experiments on
0:09.6	board.
0:10.3	But everything else, too, fix the toilet and reprogram the attitude control system or do basic
0:17.0	dentistry or basic surgery on each other.
0:19.9	That is the voice of our very special guest this week.
0:22.7	I couldn't be more excited about this episode, so let's get to it.
0:25.9	Probably Science.
0:36.5	Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshin. I'm joined by Andy Wood.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.5	And Jesse Case.
0:42.5	Hey, guys.
0:43.2	And at some point, hopefully an astronaut.
0:45.9	Yes.
0:46.5	We're very excited about this.
0:47.7	I think it's definite. We'll be joined by an astronaut.
0:51.2	This is the night before. This is, you guys won't know this because you're going to listen to this in one go, hopefully.
0:56.3	But we're doing a pre-record.
0:58.3	This is the preamble.
0:59.2	We're doing the night before.
1:00.0	We're going to Skype the astronaut.
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