📚 2 Books mentioned in "Cosmic Queries – How to Not Die in Space w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ana Diaz Artiles" of StarTalk Radio

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Podcast: StarTalk Radio

Episode: Cosmic Queries – How to Not Die in Space w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ana Diaz Artiles

Published on July 7, 2022

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Foundation Cover

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

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I've just recently been binging on the Isaac Asimov story, Foundations, now streaming, and a big part of it is just in the background. There are people who can infuse their body with nanobots, and they know how to heal an injury for you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions that he has been watching the series based on Isaac Asimov's book 'Foundations', describing how the storyline features people with nanobots that can heal injuries. This mention serves to provide background context related to self-healing technology discussed in the context of spacesuits.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Cover

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

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On that same note, Nicholas Lenson says, in Scott Kelly's book, Endurance, he mentions that an astronaut who has to wear glasses during a spacewalk—contact lenses weren't an option—had to glue his glasses to his head during his spacewalk to prevent them from falling.

A listener references Scott Kelly's book 'Endurance' to highlight a problem astronauts face regarding vision during spacewalks, specifically mentioning the need to glue glasses to the head when contact lenses aren't an option.

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