Astronaut Michael Barratt

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Dec 1, 2020

Since the first ISS Crew boarded the International Space Station 20 years ago, humankind has been in continuous orbit around the earth. Astronaut Michael Barratt has been there since the beginning, serving first on design teams, then active ground crew, and finally spending 7 months on the ISS in 2009. Now he's working on keeping astronauts safe from cosmic radiation for a future mission to Mars. Barratt joins us to talk about the history of the ISS, his experiences in orbit, and what's next for human spaceflight.

This segment is guest-hosted by Matt Katz.

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