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Embracing Fear: Loretta Hidalgo's Space Mission Insight

Name: Embracing Fear: Loretta Hidalgo's Space Mission Insight
Uploaded: 2024-12-06T00:05:34+00:00
Duration: 24 s
Channel: Joe Fier
Description: Short transcript excerpt from a conversation reflecting on Loretta Hidalgo (a founding astronaut at Virgin Galactic) framing fear as a useful 'data…

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Short transcript excerpt from a conversation reflecting on Loretta Hidalgo (a founding astronaut at Virgin Galactic) framing fear as a useful 'data point' during pre-launch. Hosts (Ryan Berman and Joe Fier) discuss fear’s evolutionary role and connect it to preparation, courage, and engineering redundancies that make spaceflight successful.

I'll never forget sitting with Loretta Hidalgo, who's a founding astronaut at Virgin Galactic. She's about to get rocketed up into space, and they're shaking, and she's like, fear is just a data point. It's evolutionary. She's like, thank you, fear, for trying to keep me safe and know we're going. And that was it. Now it's like, so again. Central Courage System. Return on Courage. Courageous. It's all. It's all aligned.
Yeah. I love that. It's just a data point and. But guess what? We've done a lot of other data points in this rocket to ensure that this is going to be a successful journey. Damn, that's cool.