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Epi 51: Space news – How the International Space Station works and why Russia wants to break away
Leave a reviewThe ISS is a satellite, as big as a football ground, that you can spot from your own terraces and even send messages on twitter to the astronauts in it. While they spend much of their time doing experiments, they do take a break and play a game of chess (yes, someone from space played against someone on earth over the internet, a few years ago). They are also busy trying to find how living creatures survive in micro-gravity.ISS may just no longer be ISS – as in, one of the 5 space agencies that helped make it and maintain it, wants to break away. Russia (if you're wondering) is the one who wants to move away.Listen to this conversation with 8-yr old Keshav, who, apart from knowing the names of the planets in the solar system, also happens to be quite up-to-date on business plans of SpaceX and the networth of the billionaires on earth.
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