Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Czenski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Czenski.
My fact this week is
that one of the women about to take part in the first all-female spacewalk has spent the last eight years hand-rearing a flock of geese.
Wow.
And not in preparation for this.
So that isn't part of the preparation.
It does sound like it.
It sounds like she's going to take the geese with her into space.
Going up on the flock of geese,
which would almost work because they're geese which are famous because they can fly higher than any other bird,
so they're the bar-headed geese.
But not in space.
I think space would be pushing it even for them.
So this is Jessica Mir and she's due to do a spacewalk on October 21st and she's going to do it with Christina Koch and it's going to be the first all-female spacewalk and she hasn't always been an astronaut.
She's a physiologist and the reason she's going up into space is to look at how space affects people's bodies.