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Life, but not as we know it — living 408km above earth – Daily Mercury
Is there life on Mars? Maybe. There’s definitely life on the International Space Station. Physicist Dr Shannon Walker on what it’s like up there.
On a sweltering January night in 2019, Shannon Walker sat in a deckchair under a star-filled sky on Mutooroo Station in the South Australian outback.
Sipping red wine, she chatted with starry-eyed station workers about how the International Space Station, orbiting just 408km above the earth, was actually closer to Mutooroo than Adelaide – and how she hoped to get back up there one day.
Dr Walker is no stranger to space or South Australia.
Married to Adelaide’s own former astronaut Dr Andy Thomas,…
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