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Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage

Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage

By: Andrew Prestage
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 It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime© 2025 Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Nature & Ecology Science
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  • #82 Apollo-Soyuz at 50! It’s been a half century since this incredible project. The first international space mission.

    #82 Apollo-Soyuz at 50! It’s been a half century since this incredible project. The first international space mission.
    Aug 31 2025

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    In 1975, an incredible and unlikely partnership resulted in the docking of a NASA Apollo capsule and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit. The cold war opponents worked together to overcome not only engineering challenges, but the rivalry and suspicion of the cold war.

    This cooperation led to the Shuttle-Mir program in the 90s and the present day International space station. They all began with the spirit of cooperation from Apollo-Soyuz.


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    9 mins
  • #81 After centuries of Earth’s rotation slowing down, it’s now speeding up and making the days shorter. But you’d never notice.

    #81 After centuries of Earth’s rotation slowing down, it’s now speeding up and making the days shorter. But you’d never notice.
    Jul 31 2025

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    Earth’s days had been getting longer since observations began. Every century, the length of the day would increase by about two milliseconds. Like… clockwork. In recent years, something strange has been happening, the days have started getting shorter as the rotation of the Earth has been speeding up. Even more strangely, we don’t really understand why.


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    9 mins
  • #80 Plants on the Moon. An Australian team of biologists and engineers are really sending a mini greenhouse to the Moon.

    #80 Plants on the Moon. An Australian team of biologists and engineers are really sending a mini greenhouse to the Moon.
    Jun 30 2025

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    An Australian team of botanists and engineers are working on a project that might make or break the future of long term, long distance space occupation. They're growing plants. Not that unusual, but they're trying to grow them on the Moon. Plants produce oxygen and they are food, essential elements of living away from Earth.

    Let's check out the plan to experiment with germinating seeds in shoebox sized 'lunariums' on the Moon within the next 12 months.


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    8 mins
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