Name: Talk about women in space in 6 minutes
Uploaded: 2018-05-28T08:21:56.000Z
Duration: 6 min 18 s
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travel. What's the furthest journey you've

Rob: Well, I have been to the other side of the

world. I've been to Australia, New Zealand

Rob: Well, it was pretty boring really and quite

the aeroplane – but I loved it when I got

Neil: So how would you feel about a journey

of 56 million kilometres that took around

Neil: Well, that's how long it would take to get

to the planet Mars and this programme is all

about the women who want to be the first to

set foot on the red planet. First, though,

today's question, which is about the size

Rob: I'm pretty sure I know this. It's bigger

Neil: OK, well, we'll find out if you're right at

Rob: Yes, and 2016 was the first year that

Karen Nyberg: When I was selected as an astronaut in

the year 2000 I thought that that might be

a realistic possibility, that we would be

the ones, the  next to go to the Moon. So

Neil: At that time, when she was selected,

a realistic possibility. So she thought that

it wasn't just a dream, but something that

because that opportunity didn't arrive at

means unlucky. If you use this adjective it

Rob: Absolutely, why not? On a mission to

different kinds of specialists. We tend to

but really I think they are much more like

Neil: If we are going to set up a base on Mars,

one thing that would be very important is

to try to find a way of growing food. For

that you need people with skills in those

brilliant at all areas or aspects of the job,

Gioia Massa: There certainly were aspects

challenged, you know. I wasn't as great in math

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