Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Australia's first astronaut

Three Food Memories

“As people we are all capable of so much more than we imagine ourselves to be” - Katherine Bennell-Pegg

In this episode you meet Australia’s first ever astronaut.

Katherine Bennell-Pegg grew up looking at the stars in her suburban Sydney backyard, and by early high school when asked by a teacher to write down three professions she’d like to pursue as an adult she wrote just one.

Unlike those of us who still don’t know what we want to be, she set her sights on the stars and achieved what few dare to dream.

Listen in to hear what it takes to become a qualified astronaut, why being able to understand Привет, как дела? is important, how space food is better than you’d expect, why all astronauts are medical test subjects, and how big aspirations are so important for young kids.

On the menu are Fantales, chip butties, and marshmallows. It’s a sweet and super-inspiring episode.

Katherine’s social cause is diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) because “unless we have diverse thought and creativity we can’t solve the problems of tomorrow”.

Katherine serves forth duckweed, from the Plants4Space team to our next guest Heston Russell.
This episode was recorded at SXSW Sydney on the iHeart Radio stage.

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