more and more space related. So yeah it's fun to look at you
orbit even earth moon commercial system like
anniversary of the launch of the first people to walk on the
come way down. So that we can have like GPS satellites and
couldn't I? Well, it's incredible. Yeah and there's so
person can buy a ticket and go. But that's just a tiny piece of
international travel on earth it's going to start getting
it. The the real story is that we can now a whole earth earth
worked on how how I could change myself to start turning
it's you know I want to be superwoman or I you know I
experience. When you were growing up talking about going
you know taking all that out of pinch of salt or were they
languages. I think. But it's this woven plot in amongst a
people that do want to become astronauts and never do become
moon. July 16th, 1969 and and that was what really linked it
like Starlink and and and sometimes even like some famous
safe and so much more simplified that the cost has
myself into an astronaut but actually tomorrow is the
really believing you and driving you? What was that
I'm I'm really thrilled with and it's already in 14
to space to be an astronaut where your parents kind of like
latest book is a thriller. So you're mixing some fiction in
so amazing Chris can we talk about your latest book though
heading up into space? You know it's become like a real cool
many celebrities. Now what do you make of the whole A listers
thing. Hasn't it? Well I I think you know that's fun to
have happened on the way to the moon and back. Wow. Amazing.
talk about. I think the real point is spaceflight is now so
you can get how everybody reacts and and what you know
up for a couple international awards and it's being made into
enormous commerce happening giving us capability back here
on earth by by being able to get to space more cheaply than
Earth and walking on the moon. So, if they could do it, why
know when somebody famous goes flying but meanwhile there's
few humans on this planet that's going to have that
Writing a factual book is good but when you can write fiction
alternative history fiction. Thriller fiction. It's already
all your life experiences. Spend so much time up in space.
It's fascinating. Everybody wants to know about but your
and then like twenty-four zeroes. Oh wow. So if there's
there as well as your life experiences. What made you want
career that most people can only dream of and and and most
just how many planets there are. And right now there are at
your kids talking about their dreams. You know and and often
Now Chris you've had an absolutely incredible career. A
when I was a kid. I sort of kept it to myself and kind of
be life out there? Um well one of the things we've learned
kind of arrogant to think worthy that we are. It's just
gets pretty hemmed in and I think it's important through
least at least a septillion planets. I think that's a one
want to be whatever but without those dreams I mean your life
an eight part TV series. There it is now. The Apollo Murders.
your whole life to have some pretty wild dreams of what you
future in the galaxy not so far away that there might actually
might be able to do. But I do broadcast them to everybody
for me. It wasn't just dreams anymore. People were leaving
heart. It it makes you you know just think there's gotta be
space that is you know the same sort of rhythm as your own
weather satellites and and internet from space with things
because you are a best selling author and you've written about
with Hubble and now we're learning with the James Webb is
probably what we're hearing out there. But it's also just kind
like? Well I think it's it's delightful as a parent to hear
astronauts. In fact you know you're one of the very small
coming from it and so it's as if a figure skater was yelling
Olympics that happens to stars and when they get spun in like
exactly that means and how significant is that? Well our
reckon you know maybe there is life out there. I mean if
best theory is when when a star starts to use up all of the
and every time their voice came round you could hear their
spinning incredibly quickly and you see the pulses of energy
help people understand what it's like to fly in space.
Mars you know. Is it possible in the you know not too distant
how it how individuals might find this experience and some
of a little bit weird to hear something from the darkness of
to go down that route this time? It's another way to to
there's other planets with with with water on it. Do you think
voice. Some of them spin fairly slow and some incredibly fast.
suddenly spin way faster and you you probably seen it at the
lot of stuff that really happened of what just might
and as soon as the figure skater pulls their arms in they
and then collapses in on itself and it does that it's sort of
like a figure skater that has been turning at a certain speed
if there's an almost an infinite number of planets
it's possible? Especially seeing as Elon wants to go to
life out there. He's going to say that. I have a theory. I
the amazing stuff get that can happen. And so I wrote an
We call them you know pulsars or or magnetars and that's
all can you for our viewers just explain if you can what that suddenly you have this very active old remnants
We've also recently detected a signal a radio signal from a
galaxy that they've described as a flashing pattern. It it's
fuel that's in it it gets bigger and bigger and bigger
flashing in a pattern similar to a heartbeat. Now first of
ever.