Nightlife Science with Dan Lamberth
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Nightlife Science with Dan Lamberth

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202612 min
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Dan Lambeth, Associate Director of Science Education at the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, joined Philip Clark with the latest in science news.

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They didn't just shave a few minutes off the old record.

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Nightlife Science Forget about long-haul flights around the globe. How about a seven-hour trip to space? SpaceX has just set a new record with its Crew-13 mission for NASA,

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carrying four astronauts from Florida's space coast to the ISS, the International Space Station, in just seven hours and 55 minutes. It's the fastest journey there ever by an American spacecraft.

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They didn't just shave a few minutes off the old record. The previous US spacecraft record was 12 hours and 33 minutes. Well, the fastest trip by astronauts in the US vehicle

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