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Bailey Burns: Systems Engineer at Paragon Space, analogue astronaut and Rubik's cube master!


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Bailey is an experienced system engineer with a history of working in mechanical engineering in the space industry. Bailey does a lot of STEM outreach and is also an accomplished “analogue astronaut” with plans to do more missions next year. Bailey is a Rubik's Cube ambassador and has solved a Rubik's cube with ZeroG!

In this episode, Ben and Bailey discuss trusting in yourself and your equipment, why we are all Jedi force wielders and why are Rubik’s cubes so cool in space!

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

01:03 Spaced Ventures 

01:26 Introducing Bailey ‘ninjaneergirl’

02:30 How Bailey got into space?

04:04 Paragon

04:31 Axiom

05:30 Space suits for space tourists?

06:19 Making space suits suitable for all

07:34 Analogue Astronauts - hi seas  https://www.hi-seas.org/

10:19 Main function of analogues 

12:25 What makes hi seas so good 

13:20 No phone in analogue!

14:25 Analogue at sea!

16:20 Scuba Diving Vs Spacewalks 

18:25 Rubik’s cube 

20:31 Why is Rubik’s so cool in space?

23:00 Inspiring the next generation

24:50 SpaceKind http://www.spacekind.org/

29:25 Jedi force wielders!

31:39 Overview Effect

33:35 Bailey’s aspirations for the future

36:25 Wrap up and socials

Follow Bailey Burns:

Website - www.aspacestory.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ninjaneergirl/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ninjaneergirl

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