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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > June
> June 20, 2003:
Hour Two: Quantum Entanglement / Women in Space
| Twenty years ago this week, Sally Ride lifted
off in the space shuttle Challenger, earning a place in history
as the first American woman to orbit the Earth. Twenty years
before that, in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became
the first woman in space. |
Sally K. Ride, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, Kathryn D.
Sullivan
and Rhea Seddon during astronaut training, 1978. NASA image. |
In this hour, we'll talk with one of the first six women accepted
into NASA's astronaut corps, and about the thirteen US women who tried
in the 1960s--the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees.
Plus, spooky action at a distance--a quantum physics update. New
research into quantum entanglement by a group of researchers in
Austria reveals that two photons can be entangled -- in a strange
linked state --without a connection between them, even when the
photons in question are on opposite sides of the Danube. Call in
with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (3-4 Eastern),
and share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Margaret Rhea Seddon, M.D.
Former
NASA Astronaut
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
The
Vanderbilt Medical Group
Nashville, Tennessee
Stephanie Nolen
Author, "Promised
the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race"
Foreign Affairs Reporter
The Globe and Mail
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Seth Lloyd
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
Women
in Space - Female Astronauts and Cosmonauts
Women
of Space
Women
of Space - Those That Have Trained for Spaceflight But Not Flown
::
NASA Quest > Women of NASA ::
Promised
the Moon
NASA
biography of Rhea Seddon
- Physics
News Update Number 401 - Story SUREFIRE QUANTUM ...
Analyzing
Quantum Entanglement
Quantum
entanglement - Wikipedia
New
Scientist: Hot Topics: Quantum
This segment produced by Karin
Vergoth
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