Nima Shahinian is a Norwegian industrial designer planning on going to space, and he has already started some of the training, which he will tell us about. He has now even put together a whole project and team in Norway that is working on taking a group of people to space, including several candidates with disabilities. Hear all of about it in this episode – and, since he is a designer, we also talk about space design! Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:43 How did Nima become an astronaut candidate?

4:51 Nima's Design work

6:20 Space design

8:16 Best space suits

10:00 Family's take

11:20 Forming a project team

12:54 Timeline and origin

18:01 First mission

20:50 Financing the Project

24:33 Iranian women in space

26:26 The Next Step project

30:15 Potential candidates

33:13 Plans for the mission

38:30 Nima's space training to date

41:48 Helping Project Next Step

44:03 Vision for the project

45:57 Sci-Fi