The Meridian S03E01 - Human Exploration of Space

We are back, and we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers in this third season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast.

Joining Nic Borsato and Rebecca Forsberg in this first episode of the third season of The Meridian is none other than NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, who looks into how the human body adapts when in space. 

In this third season we are also including a few Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross Church, Victor Jónsson and Lucian Spitzner feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

The Meridian is produced by Anna Arnadottir/Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

We would like to note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention things like astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope and instrument development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA and the ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (anything from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and a number of other space related topics.