NASA’s Astronauts On Changing Climate & In “Wired”
In the latest issue of Wired magazine (p. 26 of the print edition), astronaut Peggy Whitson chats briefly about her recent return to Earth after a six-month stint on the International Space Station. Not only was it great to read something about the ISS in the mag, it was also particularly interesting to read more about Dr. Whitson’s personal experiences. My only complaint was that the “article” was far too short. Hey, Wired! More on the space station, please!
In other news: I recently started using Miro for all my downloaded video viewing (well, everything that isn’t Apple/DRM-tainted), and have been surfing the channels looking for geeky content. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a channel of video and audio podcasts that is worth subscribing to, and the first vidcast I watched featured Dr. Sally Ride. While talking about the changes to the Earth’s climate over the last couple of decades, Dr. Ride describes the technology used to scan the earth for all kinds of data - temperature ranges, weather trends, population expansion, deforestation, etc. Admittedly, this plays like an advertisement for more funding, and Dr. Ride does come across as overly optimistic, *but* where else are you going to see this stuff?
If you’d like to read more about the women of NASA, check out this post.
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