Show number 2405

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Sheri Wells-Jensen wearing a space suit navigating a simulated Martian surface with her white cane

2405 Making Space Exploration Accessible (Jan. 31, 2024)

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Sheri Wells-Jensen is a fully blind Associate Professor of Linguistics at Bowling Green State University who spent six days with four crew members in a hermetically sealed habitat at Biosphere 2, learning about what it would be like living on Mars or the Moon. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Sheri about the experience and what was learned.