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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.

    A Testbed production for Audible Originals.

    This original podcast is 8 episodes in total, please begin with “Ep 1: Privatisation and Prizes”. 
    ©2020 Lucy Hawking (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
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  • 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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Really enjoyable

This series covered many topics that I had overlooked in a pleasant, entertaining way. High production value and always on topic. Well done.
If you are feeling down, listen to the optimism abound in these episodes.

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Great thought provoking series

space exploration is a fascinating journey guided through intelligent points of view. I'm excited that this had a very hopeful and optimistic perspective

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Excellent Podcast To Survive a Global Pandemic

This Podcast was worth listening to it touches on artificial intelligence and space laws and gender and disabilities.If we only send the healthy perfect people,are we going to send people back to Earth when they get old?This podcast asks these questions.

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Fun read. I'm ready for space travel.

Lucy does a great job of bringing out the human issues of space travel. There will be technical issues for sure, but it will require a special breed of people willing to adapt and cope.

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Lucy opened my mind

Love evert minute of it. Lucy opened my mind to an inevitable future that I always thought was nothing more than a dream

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wonderful story telling

I wish there were more episodes. I could listen to Lucy's voice for days. the facts of the podcast are a bonus. bravo

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Great podcast

Loved it, informative and entertaining. Would recommend it to anyone interested in the space program.

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More emotional and psychological than technical...

I was really looking forward to a strong scientific conversation about the current and future state of space exploration and the challenges it faces, but by episode 5 with pointless conversations about the right of alien civilizations in Avatar, the New Space Race that got way off track etc. I gave up. There would be so much interesting material to cover that was barely scratched during some interesting moments. Lucy Hawking was a fine host, but I could of done without the goofy "Alexa" wannabee and often needless sound effects.

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