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Lucy in the Sky: The New Age of Space Travel

By: Lucy Hawking
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Summary

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.

A Testbed production for Audible Originals.

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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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it was entertaining and informative.
Interview with astronauts, current developments in aerospace travel. thank you.

informative

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Absolutely loved this series, Lucy Hawking's presentation is great and her interviewees across the series were really informative about different aspects of space exploration, past l, present and future. I would recommend this series for anyone even remotely interested in space exploration or a Sci-Fi buff.

Brilliant!

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Well presented and interesting set some questions to think well worth time to give it a listen

Interesting listen

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Really enjoyed it. Should be required listening in schools. Would open up thinking of our real place in the universe.

Should be required listening in schools.

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Guests on the show are very knowledgeable on the subject and give you an idea of what might be done in space in the future

easy listening and very informative.

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