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Bringing Space Closer to Home

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View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Discovery.

This hour, the final frontier comes closer to home. Waterbury native Richard Mastracchio is a NASA astronaut who just returned from six months on the International . He’s done nine space walks - leaving the space station, usually to do maintenance. He’ll talk about his experiences and hisamazing twitter feed, full of photos from space.

And we'll do some listening... to sounds form space. Radio and plasma waves collected by NASA and analyzed by University of Iowa physicist Donald Gurnett. He’s the principal investigator for the Plasma Wave Science Instrument on Voyager 1. He’s been with NASA for 54 years, and will join us to play some of his favorites, including sounds that even he can’t explain.

GUESTS:

  • Rick Mastracchio - NASA astronaut from Waterbury, CT
  • Donald Gurnett - Physics professor at the University of Iowa

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at Connecticut Public.

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