Terranauts

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Terranauts episodes

  • Best of Season 2 - Chris Hadfield and Iain Christie on NASA's Day Of Remembrance

    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. First up is Chris Hadfield and Iain Christie on NASA's Day Of Remembrance.

    On January 28, 2021, NASA marked its Day Of Remembrance. It was a day set aside to honour the sacrifices of all astronauts who have died in the pursuit of the human exploration of space. In this episode of Terranauts, host Iain Christie sits down with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to talk about those we have lost and what their sacrifices have meant.


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    32 min
  • Season Two Recap and Season Three Preview
    Season 2 of Terranauts is a wrap!  In this, the 40th episode, we take a quick look back at our second season and look forward to Season 3.  While we won't be releasing new episodes over the summer, we will be keeping the feed active with some highlights of the past two seasons.  We will also be busy with some other projects including starting a Terranauts facebook page.  Search for us @TerranautsPodcast on Facebook.  Thanks so much for listening this season... and we'll talk to you again soon.

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    10 min
  • The Flag is A One - Part 2
    In part 2 of "The Flag Is A One" we pick up the story of the Communications Technology Satellite just as a perplexing and potentially mission ending failure is occurring.  Mac Evans will take us through a few days of high drama in the Mission Operations Centre as the team tries to use a tiny little bit of data to diagnose the problem, and fix it. It's a classic Terranaut story.

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    29 min
  • The Flag is A One

    In this episode of Terranauts we talk about a little known moment of high drama in the Canadian space program surrounding the crucial Communications Technology Satellite mission.

    In 1976, Canada and the world were in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. Determined to use satellite communications, John Chapman led a bold effort to build and test a satellite that would become the prototype of what we now think of as a telecommunications satellite. But the Communications Technology Satellite mission almost ended before it began. Mac Evans, who was there, as the Mission Director - is here today to tell us the story. Note that this is part one of a two part story.


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    32 min
  • Punctuating The Equilibrium
    There are times in the development of technology and society when things change only slowly. And then there are times when things change rapidly indeed. The 1960's were certainly one of those times, for a lot of reasons. In this episode of Terranauts however, we are going to talk specifically about how simultaneous revolutions in telecommunications and satellite technology came together to change the way we talk to one another forever.

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    34 min
  • 35 Years of Space Robotics with Cameron Ower
    Dr. Cameron Ower is the Chief Technology Officer at McDonald Dettwiler and Associates where he has been working for much of the last 35 years. When he started at MDA (then known as Spar Aerospace) he worked with and for the engineers who had designed and built the very first space robot, the original Space Shuttle Canadarm. His job, at the time, was to design the next generation of space robot - the space station arm and its special purpose dexterous manipulator known as DEXTRE.  This would become the first robot to live and work permanently in space.  Today, he is helping lead the team of engineers that is designing the Canadarm 3, the robot that will help humans work and live farther from home than we ever have before. Tune in to hear what has (and hasn't) changed in the last 35 years the world of space automation and robotics.

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    41 min
  • Connecting the World by Leaving the Planet
    In this episode of Terranauts we talk about the beginnings of the other great endeavour in space. Instead of talking about leaving the planet to explore space, we're going to talk about the early efforts to work from space to understand the Earth and improve life here. Specifically, we are going to talk about the early efforts to literally connect the world, by sending satellites to space. Along the way we're going to introduce another first Terranaut. In this case, it's John H Chapman, Canada's first Terranaut, and one of the people that more or less invented the profession we now refer to as the "Space Scientist."

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    30 min
  • David Kendall is the Quintessential Terranaut (Part 2)
    Today on Terranauts the second part of my conversation with the Quintessential Terranaut Dave Kendall.  We talk about Dave's career managing increasingly larger and more international programs until he ended up as the chair of one of the United Nation's largest and most active committees.  Not bad for a lad from Twickenham.

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    26 min
  • David Kendall is the quintessential Terranaut

    This week on Terranauts we're taking a break from our regular run of the Terranauts Guide to Leaving the Planet to bring you a fascinating interview with David Kendall who could be described as the quintessential Terranaut.

    On Terranauts we often talk about the fact that no gets to space alone. We are fond of saying that space is a team sport, not only for individuals but for countries as well. Over the course of the past season and a half we have certainly talked to our share of Terrantauts with extensive international experience. But I think It's pretty rare to have one with the pedigree of today's guest.

    Dr. David Kendall has not only been at the forefront of major international collaborations for the last 40 years, he has also been a Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation AND for two years he was the Chair of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.


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    26 min
  • Project Mercury Opens a New Door for Humanity
    Having completed a "textbook" mission with Wally Schirra's flight, it was now time to go for a full day on orbit with the flight of Mercury-Atlas 9 and Gordon Cooper. But this would be the final act of Project Mercury. The project had been a complete success, but its day was done as NASA and the world moved beyond simply wondering if a human could leave the planet - and started wondering what humans - and their inventions - would do when they were there.

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    28 min

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