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Transcript/ScriptThe Week in Space (TV)
HEADLINE: The Week in Space: Winter Olympics Edition
TEASER: NASA’s recent climate report shows temperatures rising; threatening future Winter Games
PUBLISHED AT: 2/3/2022 at 2:10pm
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ U.S. SNOWBOARD TEAM/ CCTV/ SPACEX/ INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY RESEARCH (ICRAR)
PRODUCER: Arash Arabasadi
SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Bowman
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VIDEO SOURCE (S): AP/ U.S. SNOWBOARD TEAM/ CCTV/ SPACEX/ INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY RESEARCH (ICRAR)
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TRT: 2:24
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[[INTRO: NASA says global temperatures are on the rise, and that could spell trouble for future Winter Games. Plus, Australian astronomers discover an unidentified space object, and a pair of satellites touch the sky. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us a Winter Olympics-edition of The Week in Space.]]
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The Winter Olympic Games start this week, and for athletes like the U.S. Snowboard Team’s Taylor Gold, they are a reminder that our planet is changing.
[RADIO TRACK: Gold recently spoke with the Associated Press ((12/21)).]
((Taylor Gold, U.S. Snowboard Team))
“It makes me sad that we need so much manmade snow to sustain Winter sports.”
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Gold competed in the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, and the eight years since then have been the hottest on record.
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This according to recent and separate reports from NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
((Tessa Garte, University of Colorado Boulder))
“The biggest threat facing these cold, mountainous regions is a warming climate”
((NARRATOR))
Tessa Garte is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She’s been tracking previous cities that hosted the Winter Games.
[RADIO TRACK: She recently spoke with AP.]
((Tessa Garte, University of Colorado Boulder))
“A lot of them are getting really warm. Not just really warm, but really warm, really quickly. And that has massive ramifications obviously for the Olympic Games as well as things like local economy, local climate, ((and)) local weather.”
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Experts say too many carbon emissions trapped in our atmosphere mean that by 2050, only 10 of the last 19 Winter Olympic venues could host the games if warming trends continue.
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((NARRATOR))
Meanwhile, Chinese state television released this video, and VOA cannot independently verify its content, but it claims to show Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping aboard the Tiangong Space Station hosting part-chemistry experiment and part-art exhibit. China’s government says she mixed chemical solutions in space to create the iconic Olympic Rings.
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Also, this week, private spaceflight company, SpaceX, launched a pair of satellites. One launch carried a U.S. spy satellite ((US National Reconnaissance Office)), the video which aired via webcast until the classified part of the mission cut that short.
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The other launch carried an Italian satellite that had been delayed three times by weather and once when a cruise ship encroached on the launch pad.
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((NARRATOR))
Finally, this week, Australian astronomers discovered a bright pulsating object in our Milky Way galaxy roughly 4,000 lightyears from Earth. They found that in 2018, the object emitted powerful pulses of energy every 18-minutes. The astronomers haven’t said what it is, but they ruled out alien lifeforms. Arash Arabasadi, VOA News.
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
Topic TagsSpace
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateFebruary 3, 2022 15:38 EST
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
