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Chemistry in the New Space Age: Chemistry is Everyone, Episode 3

7/2/202628 min

Space is the place . . . for chemistry! ACS president-elect Chris Bodurow and three colleagues chat about the role of chemistry in space exploration and how they ended up working in such an exciting field. Luke Roberson, Ken Savin, and George Rodriguez highlight the expanding space industry, the technologies that chemistry has enabled in space, and how chemistry might change the industry in the future by, for instance, enabling long-term life-support systems. Across all conversations, one thing becomes clear: Chemistry is enabling humanity to explore, live, and innovate in space.

 

Transcripts and episode sources at acs.org/chainreaction

Clips

Space-grown Keytruda Crystals
NASA Call Prank? Nope.
AI Creating Space Molecules
Nuclear Rockets To Mars
Color-Shift Hydrogen Detector
Videotape’s Vanishing Lesson
LEGOs To Molecules

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:03

    Welcome to Chain Reaction, a podcast from the American Chemical Society, where we link chemistry's past to its future. I'm your host, Margot Wall.

  2. Shane Hanlon· Host0:13

    And I'm Shane Hanlon.

  3. Speaker 10:14

    You know, it's still weird, Shane, having you here.

  4. Shane Hanlon· Host0:20

    [laughs] I mean, don't worry. By the time you and probably the audience get used to it, uh, I'll be gone. You know, just enough time to throw a wrench in everything.

  5. Speaker 10:28

    [laughs] No, no, no, no. We're glad you're here. What, why are you here again? Remind me.

  6. Shane Hanlon· Host0:34

    [laughs] ACS 150. It's our birthday.

  7. Speaker 10:36

    Oh, yeah.

  8. Shane Hanlon· Host0:37

    Yeah.

  9. Speaker 10:37

    Woo-hoo.

  10. Shane Hanlon· Host0:38

    But more importantly, beyond, you know, just the number, the theme of this big birthday is chemistry is everyone. And so we're hearing from ACS presidents in discussions with peers and colleagues.

  11. Speaker 10:49

    So who are we hearing from this week?

  12. Shane Hanlon· Host0:51

    President-elect Chris Brodeur, and she's kind of obsessed with chemistry in space. We often say that chemistry is the central science, and that doesn't just apply to here on Earth.

  13. Speaker 3· Soundbite1:03

    The technology of today is already helping us penetrate the silent darkness of space. Man himself has taken the first tiny step into this vast unknown, and we can only imagine what resources will soon be brought back to Earth by these early pioneers.

  14. Speaker 11:21

    The technology of tomorrow will only become more important as we continue to explore

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