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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whip Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: How good is this?

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Speaker 2: Sydney's hosting the International Astronautical Congress later this month. It's

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Speaker 2: between September twenty nine October third. You can go get

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Speaker 2: more info at IAC twenty twenty five. Dot Org. Spoke

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Speaker 2: to this lady last year and she is Australia's first

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Speaker 2: female astronaut.

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Speaker 1: Can you please put your hands together?

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Speaker 3: The Catherine pe time, Good morning, Thank you for having

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Speaker 3: me on.

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Speaker 2: Catherine. The last time that we had you on, we

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Speaker 2: had such a great response from kids, and you know what,

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Speaker 2: the occupation of astronaut.

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Speaker 1: I still think that there's so many.

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Speaker 2: Kids out there that when they grow up, they want

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Speaker 2: to go into space. So do you mind we actually

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Speaker 2: grab some of those children to ask you questions? Can

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Speaker 2: we go through a few today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Go for it?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: Okay. First question we hear we have here is from Hugo,

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Speaker 1: who wanted to ask this.

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Speaker 4: Hi. My name is Hugo. I'm for My question is

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Speaker 4: how how fast does your rocket chip go?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Great question from Hugo.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 5: Well, a rocket ship takes about seven minutes or so

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Speaker 5: to get into space, which is one hundred kilometers up,

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Speaker 5: so you get to space pretty quick on those rockets,

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Speaker 5: and they often start slow and then get all the

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Speaker 5: way up to the top of the atmosphere and then

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Speaker 5: can take you.

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Speaker 3: To places like the space station.

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Speaker 5: I know when my kids saw a rocket launch a

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Speaker 5: few months ago, they were surprised at how very slow

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Speaker 5: it was. Lots of comments about that, but they move

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Speaker 5: pretty quick wild.

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Speaker 1: I've got a question here from beautiful Isabelle Orry.

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Speaker 2: My name is is Fell.

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Speaker 6: I'm six years out and I'm a new one, and

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Speaker 6: I would like to know what's your favorite food or

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Speaker 6: drinking space.

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: In space, your favorite foods are usually different to Earth.

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Speaker 5: In space, usually crave spicy your salty food because it's

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Speaker 5: a bit like you have a head cold and you

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Speaker 5: can't taste really well. So if you don't like chili

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Speaker 5: on the ground, you'll lack in space. The hot is

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Speaker 5: a hot commodity. But you can't eat things that create

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Speaker 5: crumbs either. You have to be pretty clean with your

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Speaker 5: food or they might fly around and get in your

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Speaker 5: ears or your nose, or your eyes or someone else's.

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Speaker 1: Okay, our next question is from Louis.

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Speaker 4: My name is Louis. I'm ten years old. My question

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Speaker 4: is what do you think is the most realistic space

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Speaker 4: movie and why.

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Speaker 5: There's so many good space movies and they really help

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Speaker 5: us to kind of imagine the kind of future we'd

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Speaker 5: like to have or not like to have in space.

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Speaker 5: I think I have to say my favorite space movie

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Speaker 5: has got.

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Speaker 3: To be The Dish movie. Yeah, it's awesome.

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Speaker 5: I did my year ten work experience out at the

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Speaker 5: Dish around time it came out, and kept trying to

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Speaker 5: get up there to play cricket, but that was not

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Speaker 5: really allowed at that point.

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Speaker 2: As you do, go all the way back to your childhood,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's the extent that you went to to

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Speaker 2: get up into space all the way back then.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely I wanted to be an astronaut as far back

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Speaker 5: as I can really remember. I still like lying on

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Speaker 5: the grass in my backyard getting bindies all over my

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Speaker 5: shirt most evenings, trying to look at the stars. And

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Speaker 5: when I learned that some of those were planets that

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Speaker 5: you know, no one had seen up close with their

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Speaker 5: own ice before, I just thought that would be the

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Speaker 5: greatest adventure and was stubborn enough never to let go

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Speaker 5: of the dream and fell in love with science and

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Speaker 5: did flying lessons and was in you know, the Army

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Speaker 5: Reserve and emergency services and pursued being a space engineer.

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Speaker 5: And it's actually a dream I shared with seven out

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Speaker 5: of ten. I was the kids under twelve today.

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Speaker 1: Much this person's dream as well. Another question from Mimi.

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Speaker 6: My name is Mimi. I am eight years old and

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Speaker 6: my Christian is how do you manage time or no,

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Speaker 6: the time in space vas different us.

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Speaker 3: Such good questions.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so Mimi, in space astronauts we all wear watches.

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Speaker 5: But most astronauts today are in space on what's called

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Speaker 5: the space station, the International Space Station. It's huge, it's

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Speaker 5: almost the size of a Nussy soccer field, and you know,

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Speaker 5: you can have some at least seven astronauts usually are

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Speaker 5: up there. But we're flying all over the world. Every

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Speaker 5: hour and a half, we're lapping the globe. So you

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Speaker 5: have to pick a time zone. And the time zone

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Speaker 5: is GMT, so the time that's in England basically, so

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Speaker 5: if you're in Japan, you've got the bad shift if

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Speaker 5: you're in ground control. But up there we are we

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Speaker 5: are on GMT time. But on the Moon it's being

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Speaker 5: determined what the time should be on the Moon right now,

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Speaker 5: so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Are you any astronauts falling in love in the space station.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure there's lots of things that have happened in

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Speaker 5: the space station where they can't all be talked about.

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Speaker 2: So maybe what happens up there.

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Speaker 1: This one's from Jemima.

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Speaker 6: Mind jimmme, I'm is there any more animals going to spice?

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Speaker 3: Hijamma. Lots of animals have been to space, you know.

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Speaker 5: We've even taken animals like fruit flies to space to

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Speaker 5: test if new space stations are working before we look

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Speaker 5: to send people up on them. For example, if animals

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Speaker 5: go to space, we have to make sure we do

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Speaker 5: it in a way that's kind to those animals, So

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Speaker 5: it goes through a lot of different experts to check.

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Speaker 5: But it's an important part of the research done up

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Speaker 5: there because on space we help make new medicines for

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Speaker 5: people on it.

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Speaker 1: Catherine, I don't want to bring the mood down or

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Speaker 1: sound childish at all. It's just a conversation we're having

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Speaker 1: during the week. Because KATEU works on the show, was

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Speaker 1: putting together a diorama about space for her little girl,

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Speaker 1: May and there was some controversy around one of the

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Speaker 1: words and the pronunciation of what I've always known to be,

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Speaker 1: which is uranus. Can you just have to listen to

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Speaker 1: this audio and let me know what you think. Most

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Speaker 1: of what we know about uranus is from the nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty six fly by with the Voyager two and Catherine

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Speaker 1: uranus or uranus.

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Speaker 5: Look, I'm Australian, so I say uranus, but you know

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Speaker 5: other countries have different pronunciations uranus.

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Speaker 3: Some say aurinus.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh you are, but some apparently the official one

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Speaker 5: is uranus. But you know, I think it's a bit charldish.

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Speaker 5: It's a bit funny, but it helps us to remember facts.

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Speaker 5: For example, we've recently discovered that in the upper atmosphere

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Speaker 5: of uranus is hydrogen sulfite, which is a really stinky gas,

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Speaker 5: and that teaches us a lot about the formation of

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Speaker 5: the Solar.

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Speaker 3: System and things like that.

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Speaker 2: System interested all, right, Space Week events. They're happening all

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Speaker 2: across Sydney's from September twenty nine to October third. You

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Speaker 2: can get more info at IAC twenty twenty five dot

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Speaker 2: org IAC twenty twenty five dot org and you can

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Speaker 2: see Catherine Bentelpegg there as well.

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Speaker 1: Kath. We know how busy you are. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: Well my pleasure, looking forward to being back in Sydney.

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