Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

Snuck past that planetary protection protocol.

It's the aerial strain.

Oh, God, the horror.

They bake those things out, though.

They've got to really heat them up before they send them.

So I'm pretty sure that my little fingerprint gets baked off of that aluminum.

Or that, too.

Today?

Oh, for sure.

Future-proof, yeah.

Yeah, so how do you prepare?

I think that's a great point.

Yeah, it's basically debated, thought about in the 80s, debated and then built in the 90s.

flown in the early 2000s.

So it's like a home that desperately needs a reno.

It's really old.

And what we're looking at now is what's the next opportunity to build modern technology into space architecture fundamentally for this next wave of commercial space stations that are going to replace the International Space Station when it does get decommissioned 2030, 2031.

Fiery death.

This is sizable.

Yes, and it's no small feat for NASA to be able to do that well.

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