Terranauts

Terranauts

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Terranauts episodes

  • We Remember With Helene and Chris Hadfield

    Last Thursday on 27 January, 2022 NASA marked its Day of Remembrance. A time that is set aside to remember those astronauts who died in the line of duty.


    On this episode of the podcast I talk with Helene and Chris Hadfield about the Day of Remembrance, about their memories of some of the crew who did not make it home from space. We also talk about what remembering means to them and about how we do and should pay appropriate tribute to the crew that have lost their lives and to their families who sacrificed their loved ones in the pursuit of Humanity's journey off the planet.


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    43 min
  • Good Fast Or Cheap
    In today's episode we are going to pick up the story of project Gemini as it makes the transition from an engineering study to a full up space project. In order to understand what that means, and what that meant we will have to talk a bit about how space projects get managed - and why contrary to many myths - that wasn't any easier back in 1962 than it is today.

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    30 min
  • Technological Imperatives
    In the last episode of Terranauts we talked about the origin of the Gemini Project. It basically started because some Project Mercury engineers wanted to improve the Mercury capsule and make it easier to build, test and fly. But that on its own was not enough to convince NASA to actually build a new spacecraft. In this episode of Terranauts, we talk about the Technological Imperatives that DID convince NASA that it needed a new spacecraft and a new project to learn some things it was really going to need to know before it tried to go to the Moon.

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    28 min
  • Enter The Twins

    In this episode of Terranauts we return to the historical narrative of humanity's journey off the planet.


    We are going to wind the clock back to September, 1962 when John F. Kennedy made his famous "we choose to go to the moon" speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It was an important moment in the history of the human spaceflight and marked the beginning of a new - and much more intense period in the race to get to and stay in space. We'll take a look at the spaceflight landscape at that moment in 1962. We'll also introduce the next NASA space program that would take people off the planet - project Gemini.


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    30 min
  • Just Call Me Robo - Part 2

    In this episode I continue my conversation with three Terranauts who have all worked in Mission Control of the International Space Station as callsign ROBO - responsible for the operation of the International space Station's robotic arm.  They have been witness too, and participants in some amazing events and some truly significant changes in the way mission control is done.


    This is part 2 of the interview, if you haven't listened to part 1, I would suggest you do that before listening to this episode. Thanks to Mathieu Caron, Danielle Cormier and Tim Braithwaite for joining me for this interview.


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    32 min
  • Just Call Me Robo - Part 1

    In this episode we continue our series on the evolution of Mission Control. Last time, I talked about my experience walking into Mission Control in the middle of the Space Shuttle program and at the end of the era of the Apollo control centre as it was about to make a transition to the Space Station era.


    Today we talk to three Terranauts who have been around for that transition and who continue to work on the International Space Station in various ways. They have all worked in Mission Control and have been witness to and participants in some amazing events and some truly significant changes in the way mission control is done. Thanks to Mathieu Caron, Danielle Cormier and Tim Braithwaite for joining me for this interview.


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    28 min
  • A Moment in Time

    In this episode of Terranauts we explore the world of NASA's Mission Control Centre as it was in 1995. At that time, Mission Control was still being performed out of the same building and the same control room as it had been since 1964 when control of manned spaceflight missions had moved from Cape Canaveral to the Manned Space Center in Houston. This was the building from which NASA had gone to the moon. Over the course of 30 years many of the details had changed, but a lot had also stayed the same. But change was coming in the form of a new control centre, new technologies and new partnerships and ways of getting to and staying in space. But today we will take a moment to see what the world of Mission Control looked like, when I spent my first working shift there in February 1995.


    Resources for this episode:


    "Failure Is Not An Option", Gene Kranz, Simon &Shuster, New York, NY, 2000

    "Shuttle Mission Control Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981-1992", Marianne Dyson, 2021


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    33 min
  • From Flight Test to Mission Control
    Welcome back to season 3 of Terranauts. Today's episode is the first in a series of episodes looking at how the advent of the International Space Station changed how we go to space. The series will culminate in a conversation with some Terranauts who have been working as ISS flight controllers for the past 20 years. They have seen and lived this transformation up close. But before we get to that conversation we need some context. So today we actually go back to the early days of aircraft flight testing to see where many of the techniques and much of the culture of spacecraft mission control came from.

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    28 min
  • Best of Season 2 - Sarah Gallagher Thinks Big

    Season 2 has come to close and until Season 3 starts in September were playing some of our most popular episodes from the past year. 

    Meet Terranaut Sarah Gallagher, Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency, professor at Western University in London, Ontario, and supermassive black holes and galaxy researcher.


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    30 min

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