But is also the most dangerous...you have always chance to survive in almost any kind of environment if something goes wrong, but if something happens in space - its a death sentence!...That is why i salut all these astronauts! It takes lots of bravery and courage to repeatedly do what they do, knowing that every single space mission have certain chance to be their last! Much respect!
No offense should be taken. As a doctor I may end up helping a few thousand people over my whole career, just a little bit and in a very specific way, while comfortably living in a relatively safe environment. These guys hep millions by risking their lives to advance science, it's one of the most respectable and dangerous professions out there.
@@cleverusername9369: You're thinking the pressurized portion of the ISS. The habitable portion is 13,696 cuft, or 1,369.6 sqft with 10 ft ceilings... Or 1,956.6 sqft with 7 ft ceilings... Or metric: 388 m^3, or 127.3 sq.m with 304.8 cm ceilings, or 181.85 sq.m with 213.4 cm ceilings. The diameter is 9.8 ft or 3m... add in the equipment... And it starts getting... small. Add in the fact that there are 9 adults currently on board...
I got accepted into two colleges for aerospace engineering. This just motivated me more. Update: Make that 3 colleges 😊 Update 2: Currently in my sophomore year at WVU in aerospace engineering. Absolutely loving every second of it ❤
I saw this on my recommended and I was wondering " how haven't I seen this already " and then I saw that it was posted a couple of minutes ago. I am really glad that you guys are keeping the series alive.
I just want them to bring her back and ask her how they deal with periods in space. Do they have to take pills to inhibit the period completely or do they have have a special way in dealing?
There was a video on RU-vid that answered that question. I can't remember the name of the video, but they said they have a normal period in space and they can either choose to suppress their period with contraceptives and estrogen pills, or they can use a tampon or pad (which gets put into waste disposal toilet).
Don't give up and keep focused. You will make it. People laugh because they are small minded or have failed in achieving their own dreams. Ignore them. They don't know you the way _you_ know yourself.
Had lunch once with astronaut Robert Curbeam, prior to STS-116, to continue assembling the ISS. Can confirm ... astronauts & NASA personnel are awesome people, Nicole included.
Not gonna lie. I could listen to her 24/7. She is so pleasent to listen to. If she would have been my teacher, I would have actually paid attention in school.
She seems like such a cool person. I would love to sit down and have a conversation with her about pretty much anything, it doesn't even need to be about space (but it most likely would be because space is dope).
She is the type of teacher who is lecturing about space with her experiences and I would be smiling the entire time wishing that the day would not end. 😊
i always thought that the Astronaut life in space was boring and just floating around but after seeing these videos i have been enlightened it looks rather interesting even the training seems pretty cool too
I really hope that whatever i do in my life , i talk and think about it the way this amazing astronaut does. Not most people tend to love whatever profession they are in.
R S You seem to have a personal feminist grudge against men with no information at all to come to that conclusion. It says more about your character than these imaginary misogynists you speak of.
@WIRED I'd still like for a female astronaut to talk about the health issues in space, that applies to women specifically. What does it do to you to skip menstruation for example through medication? Or if you don't: what are the issues you face? Do you still have PMS, even when skipping menstruation? I'd love to hear a personal account of these, I admit, personal issues. Perhaps they are useful even to people that never go into space.
This was great! Thank you! About that space travel coordinate system--I recent,y started getting into orbital mechanics. Of all the things people might not think are amazing--or interesting--orbital mechanics are actually a lot cooler than people might think. I bet if you talked about it a bit, people would be amazed. You know, as artists, we know there are no straight lines in the body--and likewise, I learned--space travel, too, is not composed of straight lines, right?; it's all orbits!
Extended answer to the age question: not really as John Glenn went back into space again at 87 on space shuttle discovery, after a long political career, so no, age is not a huge factor during the astronaut candidate program. If you can have grandfathers going into space, there probably isn’t too big of an age limit, although it’s better to be younger as your metabolism is much quicker, your stamina is better and your cardiovascular health is very strong at that age. That’s why you don’t really see many old people going to space, now we would have maximum 50 year old people, on the Russian Soyuz rocket.
3:25 "How fast can you go in space?" The Parker solar probe is currently going at ~365 000 mph around the Sun 😁. It's the fastest probe we've sent yet.
God, the reflection of the set on that space helmet is really distracting haha. I really wish they had flipped the visor up or something if they wanted that prop.
@@maryrosekent8223 That really was not the point of my comment. And I did not intentionally direct it towards women or men. I was just curious as to whether or not someone might be able to bring items like that into space.
Yes there is smell, just like on Earth in space station there is oxygen (they’d all die if there wasn’t, cuz you know we gotta breathe). So thanks to oxygen that we breathe we get to smell stuff too. Hope this helps!
khamaji Taylor Take lots of math and science in high school-get all A’s, repeat in college-make sure to be on the Dean’s List every single semester, repeat in graduate school.
