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1. Welcome to ECHO 9
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The Extraterrestrial Communications Habitat and Orbiter is crewed by two British podcasters on a mission to learn more about space. But what is this space station? Where is it? And what systems do they have online? Welcome on board ECHO 9.
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Not really.
Introduction to Echo 9
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Speaker
So welcome to Echo 9, the extraterrestrial communications habitat and orbiter coming at you via podcasts from Low Earth Orbit. Episode one. Welcome, Anisha.
00:00:34
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Hello, how is life on Echo 9? It's very, very good. Thank you. I'm glad to be here um whizzing around the earth. How about you? I am really enjoying the view. I mean, I have to say, I mean, I've been around the world, but but never like this before, I tell you half. Looking out that window, um yeah.
00:00:54
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It's really humbling, I think. Yeah, really makes you feel feel small, doesn't it? In a good way. Makes you feel small, yes. No, I feel like it makes you feel like you're part of something bigger. Yeah, I think it's amazing. I never knew how big the Pacific Ocean was. but Wow, look at it. Oh, it's gorgeous.
Meet the Hosts: Harvey and Anisha
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Uh, so I guess, I guess I thought, you know, first episode, maybe we should do a ah quick introduction of who the crew on this space station are. Um, so I'm Harvey. Uh, you're my, you're my, my friend, Anisha, and, uh, it's a crew of two, of course, up here. Oh yeah. Um, we, you and I both work in the, uh, space sector, quite different backgrounds though. Um, I'm a marketing guy, you're a sort of salesperson, but with engineering.
00:01:44
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background. yeah And I thought that, yeah, you know, we love space. We talk about it all the time. I thought maybe, you know, it would just be nice to record some of the conversations we have and let other people in on the magic. I know. No, I agree. i am I feel like we always have great conversations and it's mostly because we are, even though we work in the sector, we're still fascinated by space.
00:02:10
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And I feel like if you're going to work in in a sector like the space sector, it does feel like you need to be really passionate about it and people don't know where to start. So what I'm hoping for through this is how do we start to make space much more accessible and relatable to everyday people to our friends and family at home who just think it's pretty cool that we work in space and have no idea what but what that actually involves. I feel really lucky actually that you know I work in the space sector it feels I like telling people when people ask me sort of what do you do I'm like oh yeah you know work at the yeah UK space sector you're totally right about like um the passion and I think that
00:02:58
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Yeah, we're we're lucky to work in a sector where you can have that passion about what, you know, our colleagues and and and um the people we know across the the sector are doing. But a lot of people, you know, they they have jobs, they're passionate about their own things. But I do you think like, you know, if you were working a software company, like, come on, it's not that cool.
00:03:21
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So to all of our of our audience who are sitting there writing code right now, um ah suck it. Yeah, no, I'm so i'm sorry. I'm i'm sure you know i'm sure yeah you know enterprise software can be really exciting too. But come on, like we're up in space. you know we're We're exploring the cosmos up here. Oh, yeah. Yeah, probably just put off all of all of our potential listeners.
00:03:47
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It's all right. we'll we'll rega We'll regain them, don't worry. we We will stick with us. Stick with us because it's, it's yeah, i won't I won't offend too many more people, I hope. Just like, no promises are. No, well, I can't make any. but Well, maybe a a good point to start on it is, why did you join
Harvey's Journey to Space
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the space sector? Like, what what was that kind of one moment or one thought that you were like, damn, yeah.
00:04:13
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Space is the one and I want to work there. Yeah, that's a really interesting question. I've I've always I know I can't even say that I can't even say like I've always loved science because at school I was I was not very good at science. um And it it took me quite a while. I didn't go to university after school straight away. And I went and got a job and I worked with monkeys as a as a prime. I mean, that is but That is a great story in itself, you know, from monkeys to, yeah space face yeah yeah yeah. And that has been kind of my my journey. But um yeah, I worked at this rescue center with monkeys and as a keeper, you know, cleaning up after them, feeding them and stuff.
00:04:59
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I got to really appreciate the sort of science and evolution of um of these creatures, and it got me really interested in science, um which eventually led me to go to university, study, I studied zoology, and then sort of think, what do I want to do with my life? It's got to be science, but where are the opportunities? And that sadly, there's not so many working with monkeys.
00:05:24
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Um, but there are is a whole area of like science and space exploration that is super exciting. And there are loads of opportunities to work in that sector. So I sort of gravitated here. There you go. Good use of the word gravity. I guess because it's really cool and it's a place where you, there's still so much to discover. What about you?
00:05:50
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I mean, I love that, you know, I feel like for me, I but was actually really obsessed with like, airplanes and aerospace. And just the idea, I think, you know, a long time ago, I did think about becoming a pilot. So that was kind of the route that I went. Did you? I didn't know that. Yeah, I mean, I did actually go to, um to flight school for for a brief summer when I was at uni. no way i did say that Can you fly? Can you fly like a plane?
00:06:17
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I mean, in in case of an emergency, I could probably manage, but yeah, I i did fly like a twin prop, um you know, six to eight seater aircraft sort of out of Hatfield background again, sort of like. Yeah, no, I did. um But that was, you know, a while ago now. um And I guess off the back of that, I mean, part of what I was studying was aeronautical engineering, but also sort of aerospace.
Anisha's Aerospace Passion
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And I actually did a module on um you know spacecraft manufacturing. And it just sounded so surreal because I was thinking, okay, this sounds like UFOs and stuff. like what is What does that actually mean, spacecraft manufacturing? And it was just it was so interesting to learn about orbital mechanics. And we had this final year project around developing a planetary defense system um you know for asteroids that will come in towards space, I mean, towards Earth.
00:07:12
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And it was just, yeah, it really kind of built on my curiosity and my creativity around, you know, how do you solve some of these weird and wonderful problems that we face, but you don't think about in your day-to-day life. um And so I didn't immediately go into this space sector. I did a few other things first.
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but um When I saw the opportunity to work in space, I kind of just felt like that childlike curiosity coming back. and i i mean you know this halfve I'm a big fan of sci-fi. I love sci-fi films and TV programs. and It just felt like this is a real opportunity for me to to do something that could be groundbreaking, you know, ah be part of something that's really kind of futuristic and sci-fi, something that you see in the movies only, but also kind of do it from my humble home in the UK. And so I also kind of fell into the space sector and I still equally, when I introduced myself and people said, oh, you know, what do you do? And I'm like, oh yeah, no, I manage future space programs from from the UK. And they're just like, what? Like we didn't even know the UK does space.
00:08:22
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So, um yeah, I think it's just my ongoing passion and interest in believing in something that can't be can't be real but is. and And I love trying to trying to do that in my in my day job as well. Yeah, living the sci-fi reality. Oh, yes, that is yeah put put very well. That is exactly it. Yeah, this it is wild. And here we are in a space station, you know, so...
Tour of Echo 9
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
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I thought for episode one, maybe a good idea would be to start with a bit of a tour of our space station. Ooh, I love that idea. That is a great idea. Where are we starting our tour hub?
00:09:04
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Well, I thought maybe actually it would be good to explain where we are before we go into the details of what the inside looks like. OK, yes, yes, let's do that. So so we say um ah Echo 9 is in low Earth orbit. What does that mean?
00:09:22
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And I think the way that I would describe it is if you imagine you're in a rocket and you're launching from the surface of the planet, you start going through you know the the lower sections of our ah atmosphere, and then eventually you arrive, if you've performed the correct maneuvers, in orbit of Earth. And that first sort of stop would be low Earth orbit, l eo LEO, LEO, we call it.
00:09:49
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So, and and that I think is where we will stay for the majority of today. But um but if we did keep going, of course, um you'd go through this area called medium Earth orbit. ah Mio, weird place. Who the hell goes there? Like what what is going on there? Barren land, yeah. Yeah, that's a really weird place. Because really in the space sector we hear a lot about Leo and then we hear, if you keep going, Gio.
00:10:19
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um yeah geostationary orbit, and that's where you've reached a point at which your orbit is so big that your spacecraft is traveling at the same speed that Earth is turning. So you're always going to be above a specific spot on Earth. You never deviate from that location.
00:10:39
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at that distance, you can have a really good view of the Earth. And with just three satellites positioned in in GEO, you've got almost total coverage of the Earth. So that's where we find our sort of communication satellites and and things like that. But going back down to Leo.
00:10:58
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ah LEO is a very popular place, ah of course we have communication satellites down here too, and also space stations. So I guess my question for you Anisha would be why would we put space stations in LEO?
00:11:11
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I mean, there's lots of reasons to be in LEO. I mean, it takes much, much longer to get out to GEO. And it really depends on what you're trying to do. I think with with human exploration and and science missions, you're trying to understand what we can do in kind of a low gravity environment. So there's opportunities for us to think about, you know, how do I develop cool stuff in space without the gravity factor?
00:11:38
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You also need somewhere that's kind of a a test base. you need to You need to go to LEO first before you then go to MIO and GEO, et cetera. So there's kind of a journey there. and And you see that in space programs right now where you know we go to the space station, and then we go to the moon, and then you might go to Mars, and and further and further out. So that there's all of these kind of gradual progressions.
00:12:02
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But Leo is a really special place. I mean, you have this ability to whiz around the Earth. at an incredible speed and it doesn't take too long to get there and if we need to fix something or um send up a replacement it's kind of a more manageable task to do but again who knows in the future maybe we will move stations further and further away from the earth depending on the mission requirement right because if you want to
00:12:35
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whiz around the whole world ah multiple times, um very quickly, in short periods of time, taking pictures or, you know, doing some kind of scientific experiments, Leo is really where you want to be. But if I wanted to look at just Europe, for example, for a long period of time, and just kind of hover above it, then that's probably where you would want to do a mission in a geo orbit. It's just not typically done because there's not a requirement to do that. Not yet, not at the moment. well not Not yet, not yet. I mean, like I said, in the future we we may we may have that. We may have, if not a full Echo 9 or an ISS out in GEO, it could be some kind of hub for going further out into space. What have we got on board then? What have we got on our space station?
Living in Space: Comfort and Innovations
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What have we got on board? Well,
00:13:32
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I mean, what do you have in a house? Half, you know? We've we've got it we've got to live up here um and we've got to survive. and so we have modules, right? that's That's what we call them instead of, you know, rooms. So where do you want to start our tour? Maybe right here in the recording studio? In the recording studio, yes, of course, the studio. And we don't even need to soundproof the walls because we've got the vacuum of space outside. so Oh yeah, that's that is a great point. um Yeah, we so so I guess we would have the recording studio um connected to maybe some sort of habitation area.
00:14:12
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Yeah, we've got to live somewhere, got to sleep somewhere. Yeah, exactly. Got to get um our beds. So and on ah on a space station, of course, you know, there's no up or down. So your beds don't have to be like the bed that you would have um in your house. You don't need to lie down because there is no down to lie. So I know on on places like the ISS, um you've basically got like a wardrobe where you get into a kind of sleeping bag that's attached to the wall.
00:14:42
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and you just close yourself in a wardrobe to go to sleep. yeah Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit more exciting than that on Echo 9, though, I think. yeah we're not Yeah, we've got four poster beds over here. Yeah. But we still have to zip ourselves into the bed. But that's actually a good point um about things being more fancy, because the ISS is so old. Oh, yeah. um and And therefore, like a lot of you know the systems and modules were were built when we had a lot less sort of capability um or technical capability, I think the sort of space stations of, of um, the future next generation space stations like echo nine will probably have comfort for the inhabitants, like a lot higher up on the agenda. Um, particularly if, you know, they were for space stations that were traveling further out, people who were going to go,
00:15:38
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off up onto a space station and spend a lot more time than maybe just ah ah a few weeks or a few months. um You need to think about, yeah, how do you keep those occupants not just alive, but comfortable and and happy, I guess. So for Echo 9, I think our ah base requirement was to say, we want to we want to live up here, but we want to live up here with the comforts of home as well. And what would those comforts look like to you?
00:16:08
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Those comforts, I mean, I like a big fluffy duvet. So that was my first requirement. I was like, I'm not doing a small sleeping bag. you know A plastic sleeping bag is not going to be the one for me. Add a zip to my duvet and we can we can talk. So that was that was the first one. but yeah The other comforts are you know a proper bathroom.
00:16:28
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Oh, yeah. like ah Let's just talk about that. That's a good point because, yeah, like, how do you wash in space? Like, you can't have a shower. You can't have a bath. I think i think um traditionally they use wipes. Like, just have a, yeah. but But I've also heard from astronauts that you don't actually feel that dirty in space.
00:16:55
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because I don't know why, but something like the clothes don't really stick to you. um You've always got this barrier of sort of between you and anything you're wearing. um I think you don't really necessarily get so like sweaty and dirty. um So, um I mean, I don't know. um We've only been up here very recently and on keen I'm keen to use our our um yeah special space shower,
Space Challenges: Coffee and Fitness
00:17:22
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but... ah
00:17:26
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Yeah, my ah special space shower is more like a, like you're right. You're correct. It's my bathroom is, um, you know, a special, special, you know, toilet, which does its thing with without gravity. Cause that's needed. Um, but more it's, it's, it's a space for me to like, get ready and still not feel like I'm camping in space. That was my, recall you know, I don't want to feel like I'm going to get up and I'm going to, you know, rock up out of my sleeping bag and.
00:17:53
Speaker
You know, do what I do. I needed a space to just have me time. And my bathroom is the place where I like to get ready. So that was going out, out on the town, you know, to the the town yeah to the disco module.
00:18:10
Speaker
Absolutely. You know, why why the hell not? Why not? So that was, that was my comfort. Other, come what other comforts do you have? Hard? What was your requirements for echo nine coffee?
00:18:21
Speaker
Oh, yes. How could I forget? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So you and I had a ah a very ah brief conversation about coffee the other day, but um I was, I was wondering, you know, how does coffee work on um a space station? And a few months ago, I met an astronaut, Catherine Vettel Pegg. The name drop. Yep. Yeah. There you go. ah She's an Australian astronaut um who hasn't been to space yet, but is sort of, you know, waiting for her deployment or or whatever they call it.
00:18:50
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And um I asked her about that and she said it's instant coffee on the ISS, which for me is okay. I i don't i don't dislike instant coffee, but I do love an espresso. So I actually looked into this and funnily enough, there actually has been an espresso machine on the International Space Station. okay it was cold It was called the ISS espresso.
00:19:17
Speaker
Oh, stop. Stop it. Oh, really? Really? Oh, gosh. Yeah. And it was it was on the space station between 2015 and 2017. So for two years, astronauts could get espresso um and then it was returned to Earth. I'd have been devastated, I think, when that went. I'd have been like, oh, sorry, I forgot to put that on the returner. Lucky for you, Harv. I've ordered one specially for us. Oh, lovely. Thank you very much. What else have we got? What else have we got on board?
00:19:46
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uh exercise i was thinking oh yes how could i forget you know because i'm not a big fan of the gym on earth are you not i'm not a very i'm not a gym goer i'm not i am um i meditate i am much more of a yoga enthusiast so i like to slow down but of course in space we are going to have to work out because of the lack of gravity we can tend to lose some body mass and some body muscle. So it's really important as well, I think. right and bow dens Yes, absolutely. So what have you asked to be installed into our our gym? Well, Nish, I've recently got into climbing. OK, I like it. Yeah. And I say that I've been like three times. Surely it's cheating, though. Like, how can you climb? Very easy. in space Very easy.
00:20:44
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So i what I thought I would do, what I thought I would request was um that the gym is actually in a centrifuge module. So it spins, ah which creates artificial gravity. And then I can climb up my climbing walls um just like I would on Earth and feel you know feel the the the burn in my arms and legs.
00:21:07
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So it sounds like you're giving kind of hamster wheel type vibes there. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Okay. okay Yeah. Yeah. well That sounds pretty good. so And then I guess if you're not so into the gym, maybe, uh, we can have the, the spa module as well. The spa with, um, with no water, of course. we Well, yeah, maybe, maybe like a sort of steam room that might still work.
00:21:32
Speaker
OK, we'll have to ask the engineers. I will use the gym, don't worry, because obviously I have to, because I don't want to you know go back home frail. So i will I'll make use out of the the weights and the treadmill. I'll stick to my my classics um on that one. But opening up the conversation to our to our audience,
00:21:53
Speaker
What other gym equipment should we install into space? That could be more exciting. That's a really good question. like What do we need? ah Because I don't know. I'm not really a gym person. I've gotten into climbing recently, but like I say, I've but i've only been three times. But ah I don't know that much about you know physical exercise and stuff. I'm not very good with that. So I would be keen to hear from people I mean, I told you this before. I mean, I'm an axe thrower. I mean, i love I love a bit of axe throwing. But unfortunately, that didn't didn't get approved in my ah in my request before we came up to Echo 9. They said it was too dangerous, didn't they? Yeah, they said it they said it was too dangerous and um they didn't think I was buff enough to be able to hit the target in zero gravity. so Yeah, so you just put a hole in the in the side of the ship.
00:22:39
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Yeah, which which probably wouldn't do us any favors. So, um, act storing is off the list, but opening up to ideas, what else could we be doing in space that we're not? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Cool.
Creative Experiments in Space
00:22:51
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And I guess the final thing that we would need is a ah lab. Oh, yes. Yes. Cause we, we have, we have very technical experiments to be doing, don't don't we? You and I have the least the dynamic duo that is a niche and half is, um, what would you do? what What experiments would you do?
00:23:09
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i I feel like I would do some some creative experiments. sorry Sorry to all the scientific viewers, but um I think I'd like to do kind of painting in space, mixing arts in space, watercolor in space. And i saw there is an astronaut who's who's you know famously known for having taken her water paints with her, but I'd love to kind of experiment on what what what could you create in space?
00:23:36
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that's different to how you do things on Earth. I think I could hear one of the cooling fans on the ah on Echo 9.
00:23:48
Speaker
That's just the aircon. Oh, yeah, of course. Just the oxygen float. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. maybe Maybe we'll get a more silent aircon unit installed for future episodes, but we'll we'll see. yeah I think that's probably it for for Echo 9 at the moment, right?
00:24:06
Speaker
I think so. I mean, the other important thing that we should mention actually have is we have plans to expand. Yes. Well, we're modular. Yes. And so each module, you can kind of add another one on in future if you need to. And we have, you know, docking stations to be able to get our deliveries in and all sorts of functionalities is around the place. Actually, one last thing I'll mention, a very, very important part of the spacecraft is the airlock.
Echo 9's Modular Design
00:24:37
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where yeah that enables us to to get out to do spacewalks when you're fixing the solar panels, but also enables others to join us.
00:24:49
Speaker
Yes. How could we forget? Yeah. And I think our plan very much, Nish, is to have some guests join us up here on Echo 9. So they can tell us a little bit about what they do for the space sector, um a little bit about the challenges that they work on and how they're sort of, you know, helping to drive this super exciting sector forward. That is so important because space is not an isolated journey.
00:25:20
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And so we will collaborate and I love that. ah Beautiful, beautifully said. This is not an isolated journey and we will collaborate.
00:25:30
Speaker
Okay, so tour over, tour over. I'm very excited to spend some some time up here with you, um having these conversations, learning more about space. I guess my sort of final thought, like Jerry Springer, um my final question, I guess, would be, are there any topics about space that really interest you? and Anything that you're really interested in learning a little bit more about?
00:25:57
Speaker
Oh yeah, I mean there there is so much. I think just by living in Echo 9 and having our daily routines there's going to be so many questions that I have. um The first one, me being me and asking for a big nice dressing area or a big bathroom space to to get ready in, is um What shoes? What shoes should I have bought with me? like What does I need to pack? I mean, do I just wear socks all the time? Am I wearing shoes? I mean, at home on Earth, I'm kind of in flip-flops or slippers. Is it logical for me to be bringing those with me? Are they just going to fly off my feet? I mean, right now I'm in i'm in my socks, so I'm okay. But when I go outside for a space walk, how does that change? How do I change my outfits?
00:26:45
Speaker
You know, that is like a big part of my of my routine is is kind of getting up and getting ready for the day. So, yeah, shoes. Shoes. OK, yeah, that sounds good. um i'm I'm wearing slippers at the moment. I've got really into slippers lately.
00:27:03
Speaker
OK. Last year, last year I did wear anything on my feet and um it got really cold and I got chill blades. Oh my god. Do you know what these are? No I don't but it sounds horrific. They're like blisters on your feet from getting too cold. how did How did you get to that point? I know it was like I was living in a Dickens novel or something.
00:27:29
Speaker
That's exactly what it is. Yeah. What's wrong with you? i don't I don't know. I don't know. but So I'm taking like foot warmth a lot more seriously this year. Okay. I'm very i't happy for you. I wear slippers. I don't know what um what the appropriate footwear is for a space station. I wonder who we could speak to to um to help us understand.
00:27:49
Speaker
We'll have to, we'll, we'll make some friends along the way. We'll make some friends along the way. I think we will. I think we will. I mean, we, we just had, um, the international, uh, aeronautical kind conference, is it astronautical? Yes. as i see yes yeah um And they released a, um, or there was ah an announcement at the IAC where there was a spacesuit designed right by, was it Prada?
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah. So who do you who do you want to design your space shoes? Jimmy Choo? I feel like you're judging me now and I'm not sure how I feel about it. um I mean, I would take a pair of Jimmy Choo space slippers or space boots, whatever you want to call it. yeah um But to be i'm I'm like a relatively simple woman. I'm like all about comfort.
00:28:40
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And so I would I'd be like happy with like Clark's, you know, like let's just keep it basic. Okay. like um me some ah Oh, os ogs that's a good one. see i so Space. us Yeah, something just practical and comfy and definitely keeps our feet warm because that's, um you know, from your horror story definitely needed. So um yeah. us Oh, I love that. Yes. That is the one. Okay. Okay.
00:29:06
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What about you?
Curiosities of Space Life
00:29:07
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What is it that you want to understand better? I love animals and um fish is something I i like. ah you know I've kept fish in the past in an aquarium and I think it would be really cool to keep some on a space station.
00:29:25
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because I find fish quite relaxing to watch swim, and I think they're they're quite fun to look after. I like the um you know creating a little environment with plants in it and fish swimming around, that kind of stuff. and So I would love to know more about experiments to keep fish in microgravity. Is it even possible you know when liquid and and fluids behave in such a different um different way. You know, humans have to adapt to living in space, but how on earth do fish adapt? What what systems do you need in place for them to actually be comfortable in a zero gravity or or microgravity environment? No, I love that. I love that. And it's a great question, right? Because don't they say um if you put a shark or something on its bag,
00:30:17
Speaker
It kind of gets a bit dazed. Yeah, you you can, orcas I think have worked out how to, to um they put them in a, I think a catatonic state. Oh, right. Oh, wow. They flip them onto their backs. Yeah. and then Yeah. yeah theyre They're like paralyzed and then an orca can,
00:30:34
Speaker
or pod of orcas can chow down on them. um wow It's pretty nasty, yeah. yes okay and And similarly, sharks need to be, they need to have um water flowing over their gills at all times so that they receive oxygen. and So they even need to be moving all the time or they need to be resting in a current where that water is still traveling over their gills. So these are kinds of things that you know How do you aerate an aquarium in space? How do you create a current? how do you ah you know yeah Can you put oxygen in the water? Does the oxygen behave in the water like it would in gravity? Or does it all just end up in sort one place? yeah Yeah, it's an interesting question. yeah Is it just a big bubble?
00:31:18
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Exactly, right? Like, and because that is what water is in in space. it It just forms ah a bubble, doesn't it? You can't put it in a tank. It is just a big sphere. um So, yeah. And then similarly, when you when you watch something like Star Wars, and I know you're a big sci-fi fan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. When you see like a space battle in Star Wars, it's almost like they're all ships on and an ocean rather than in space because they're all, you know,
00:31:49
Speaker
oriented in the same direction relative to each other they've got a top and a bottom and they're all you know on the the same sort of plane ah relative to each other but actually space is not like that at all and if you had a ah battle in space one spaceship would be in one direction the other would be in a completely different orientation they wouldn't be pointed at each other like naval ships um So I guess like fish swimming around, would they wouldn't have an up or down as well, they would be all over the place. I wonder whether you would even get the same relaxing feeling of watching fish in microgravity, I don't know.
00:32:27
Speaker
Or would it just be a ball of chaos? It might just be a ball of chaos. And I might be putting those fish back on the next transport to home. Yeah. Yeah. Traumatised. Apologies. Yeah. Please send these fish to rehab. Release them back into the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. Pronto. Yeah.
00:32:47
Speaker
Okay, all right, cool. um Anything else, Anish? No, i think I think that was a good ah session. I feel like we've explained where we are, why we're doing what we're doing, why Harv and Nish, the two space explorers, are up here in Echo 9 and um what we're hoping to achieve by by living up here for a little bit and sharing our stories with the world. Yes, yeah, I think that's a really good summary.
Future Guests and Exploration
00:33:15
Speaker
So yeah, I think that was a really fun first episode. Thank you for joining me, Nish. I think next time we will have ah hopefully somebody else joining us on the space station to chat with Harvard Nish up in low earth orbit, a little bit more about, you know, a certain area of space that we we want to learn a little bit more about. So I would say from Echo 9 and low earth orbit to everybody down there on that beautiful blue marble, stay tuned.