{"id":657744,"date":"2013-05-13T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75795"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:49:28","slug":"space-oddity-indeed-18-talks-from-astronauts-including-chris-hadfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657744","title":{"rendered":"Space oddity, indeed: 18 talks from astronauts, including Chris Hadfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaOC9danxNo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cmdr_Hadfield\">Chris Hadfield<\/a>, the Canadian astronaut who\u2019s become a YouTube sensation aboard the International Space Station, has showed us why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P36xhtpw0Lg&amp;feature=youtu.be\">tears won\u2019t fall in space<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xICkLB3vAeU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">dangers of clipping one\u2019s fingernails<\/a> in zero gravity. But he has truly outdone himself with his latest video. Scheduled to leave the space station tonight at 7pm \u2013 and to touch down in Kazakhstan hours later &#8212; Hadfield has remade David Bowie\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo#action=share\">Space Oddity<\/a>.\u201d (For those not up on their Bowie song titles, this is the song that starts: \u201cGround control to Major Tom.&#8221;) Watch it &#8212; it\u2019s truly awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>At TED, we\u2019ve had talks from explorers of the mind, charterers of the polar regions and investigators of insects. Today, we\u2019re taking a look at talks from those who\u2019ve seen the earth from outside its atmosphere. All of these TED, TEDx, and TED-Ed speakers are astronauts, yes, but they also have something else in common: a desire to never stop exploring. We\u2019ll start, of course, with Hadfield welcoming TED to Canada, upon hearing that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/04\/the-next-chapter-ted-headed-to-vancouver-in-2014-tedactive-hitting-the-slopes-of-whistler\/\">TED2014 would be held in Vancouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7yOzsMq85ck\" >Commander Hadfield welcomes TED to Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together.html\" >Mae Jemison:\u00a0On teaching arts and sciences together<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20527833\">Cady Coleman greets TED2011 from the International Space Station<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/TEDxWaterloo-Roberta-Bondar-The\" >Roberta Bondar:\u00a0The challenge of change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/TEDxDelft-Lodewijk-van-den-Berg\" >Lodewijk van den Berg:\u00a0How a crystal growth scientist became an astronaut<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mTM5dpzZOSQ\" >Joseph Allen:\u00a0A sense of place in space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxbrussels.eu\/2012\/speakers\/yvonne_cagle.php\" >Yvonne Cagle:\u00a0The human microscopic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/life-of-an-astronaut-jerry-carr\" >Jerry Carr: <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Life of an astronaut<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/TEDxNASASiliconValley-Ed-Lu-The\" >Ed Lu:\u00a0The biggest conversation project imaginable<\/a>\u00a0(See also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KAlF4xxRTwI\">Changing the course of the solar system<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FYYVyPLEtrQ\">Oceans of robots<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/Spaceflight-Michael-Massimino-a\" >Michael Massimino:\u00a0Spaceflight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/The-Glass-Floor-Reaching-for-th\" >Nicole Stott:\u00a0The glass floor: Reaching for the stars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/My-Journey-to-space-Stephanie-D\" >Stephanie D. Wilson:\u00a0My journey to space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/TEDxKiruna-Michael-E-Lopez-Aleg\" >Michael E. Lopez-Alegria:\u00a0Human exploration of space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/TedxVienna-Ron-Garan-The-Orbita\" >Ron Garan: The orbital perspective of our fragile oasis<\/a> (See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJNbjSLvtpI\">Connecting humanity&#8217;s changemakers<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/26440850\">greeting to TED2011 from ISS<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75795\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75795\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=75795&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/rYO95IlfN8I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who\u2019s become a YouTube sensation aboard the International Space Station, has showed us why tears won\u2019t fall in space and the dangers of clipping one\u2019s fingernails in zero gravity. But he has truly outdone himself with his latest video. Scheduled to leave the space station tonight at 7pm \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}