The space station race

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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After decades in orbit, the International Space Station goes offline in 2030 and will retire by burning up in the atmosphere. A crop of new space stations are ready to take its place. Recode's Rebecca Heilweil explains. Read Rebecca's story: https://www.vox.com/recode/22839485/space-station-iss-orbit-satellites Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan, engineered by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions) and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. This episode originally published January 3, 2022. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	It's Rico Daley, I'm Adam Clark Estes.
0:41.2	Right now, circling the Earth about 250 miles up is one of humanity's greatest technological
0:47.6	achievements.
0:51.1	The International Space Station is basically our laboratory and space for studying how
0:57.0	space might help humanity here on Earth, but also how humanity might travel even deeper
1:01.9	into space.
1:03.4	That's Rico's Rebecca High Wild.
1:05.5	And for two decades now, astronauts from countries all over the globe have been living
1:10.0	aboard the ISS, working on all kinds of cutting edge research.
1:14.5	One of the key things to use the ISS Force to study technologies we could use like oxygen
1:18.9	and watering recycling systems.
1:21.1	We also use the ISS to study how well the human body, like functions in space.
1:26.6	So how well do they handle radiation, do we handle muscle and bone loss, and these
1:30.8	are sort of questions we need to answer if we want to go deeper into space sometime in
1:35.6	the future.
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