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Lucy in the Sky: The New Age of Space Travel

By: Lucy Hawking
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Children's author and science communicator Lucy Hawking, daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking, invites listeners to the launch of a new space age. Fuelled by commercial finance and looking for new horizons, this is a revolutionary change from the old era in which superpowers competed for supremacy in space.

Lucy is accompanied by Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE, which kickstarted the privatised space, and Kellie Gerardi, a spaceflight industry professional and trainee astronaut, as well as visionaries at the forefront of this new age of space travel.

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Episodes
  • Ep 1: Privatisation and Prizes

    Ep 1: Privatisation and Prizes
    Dec 8 2020

    Lucy, Peter and Kellie discuss how private industry and wealth has kickstarted the space race in the 21st Century and identify who the players are.

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    32 mins
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  • Ep 2: Space Tourism

    Ep 2: Space Tourism
    Dec 8 2020

    Seven tourists have booked a visit to the International Space Station, at huge cost. Lucy discovers who will take us to space, where we can go and when might prices fall.
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    34 mins
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  • Ep 3: Mars

    Ep 3: Mars
    Dec 8 2020

    When will humans eventually reach Mars? Lucy hears predictions about how people will get there, what they will experience and whether travellers will ever come back.
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    31 mins
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Great story, well presented. Definitely worth listening. Lucy has a beguiling accent and her "guests" have enthralling tales of the beginning, middle and future of space adventures....

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A very thought provoking listen. I think we should send the Polititians up into space to look back on the Earth so they can really appreciate it, and realise we truely need to be united . It government's spent money on space science instead of trillions on war imagine where we could be by now.

Thought provoking

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Fun and educational. It covers a few unique topics in this field that I haven't heard before in this level of detail.

Educational

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