Jay Novella
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3,559 appearances
13 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Jay Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it is significant.
The ISS is losing about 3.7 pounds of air per day.
And that costs NASA about four grand a day, about 1.6 million a year to actually replace the atmosphere because it has to be brought up there.
Really?
Oh.
And these figures, they're estimates, but they show clearly that there's growing operational burden here of maintaining the station.
It's not the only problems that they have.
It is serious enough where the astronauts were told by NASA to spend more time in the American section of the station.
Yeah, right.
So to prepare for a worst-case scenario, SpaceX is developing an emergency evacuation plan for the crew.
I would imagine that that is some type of craft that will be attached and will be ready to go at a moment's notice.
The structural issues on the station have made a top priority to replace the ISS.
NASA already turned to the private sector, which is a really good idea because there's a ton of money in the private sector.
They've funded multiple initiatives to help keep, you know, human presence in low Earth orbit.
I'm totally for this.
I'm sure, you know, most of us science enthusiasts, you know, we want people up there.
There's a lot of significant science that's being done there.
It also is just human nature.
I think we have to respect the fact that we're explorers and it is the final frontier.
There are four major projects and I think you'll find these interesting if you haven't heard of them.
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