...with Abbie Hutty
Live from The Space Shed
English - August 05, 2019 23:01 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBScience Arts arts planet astronaut education environment naturalsciences science space theatre unlimited Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For this episode we’re back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with space engineer Abbie Hutty. For the last seven years she has been working as the lead structures engineer on the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover that is scheduled for launch to the red planet in 2020. Also, Jon makes an utter hash of trying to launch the Space Shed. Bear with him!
In this episode Abbie and UNSA’s Director of Human Spaceflight Jon Spooner talk about
how she became a space engineer why she’s building a rover to go to Mars why she’s confident about finding new life forms on Marsand answers questions on
what sort of life she’s expecting to find there what her favourite planet is and why what inspired her to work in the space industry how she responds to people who believe the Earth is flatEnjoy!
LINKS
Abbie on Twitter @a_hutty
ExoMars website
CREDITS
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre
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