Talking Space

On this speical episode of Talking Space, the entire team gathered at the Kennedy Space Center to broadcast live coverage of the final space shuttle launch. We were overwhelmed to find out that over 200,000 of you listened to us live on launch day. In case you missed the covereage, however, which was broadcast on http://astronomy.fm, we have the entire broadcast for you here. The broadcast lasted from 10:30am EDT to 1pm EDT on July 8, 2011. This episode is being posted on the date of the final shuttle landing. The launch which you will here was the final space shuttle launch, ending a 30 year legacy, and is broken up into three parts. Part 3: In this segment, our final and longest segment, we discuss with the people who were there what launch felt like. We ask the questions of the people who witnessed it whether it be for the first time or the fifth. We also have two very special conversations with the team developing future space suits as well as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Chris Hadfield, who wil