NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on life in the International Space Station amid a pandemic on Earth

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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy spent 196 days in space this year as the commander of Expedition 63 to the International Space Station. While there he contributed to hundreds of experiments, completed his tenthth spacewalk, and somehow also found time to record videos of himself playing soccer in space. Host Carol Hills talks with Cassidy about life as an astronaut, cooperating with Russian cosmonauts, and what it’s like returning to a planet that’s still going through a pandemic.

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