The God Who Cheers Us On: Astronaut Tom Jones on Wonder and Creation

Veteran NASA astronaut and planetary scientist Dr. Tom Jones joins Christina Sabo and co-host Fr. John Johnson on this FULL-LENGTH video episode of ‪@AResoundingYesPodcast‬! Tom flew four space shuttle missions and made three spacewalks helping build the International Space Station. He traces the yeses that carried a fourth grader's dream all the way to the launch pad, and tells the story of the Sunday in April 1994 when three Catholic astronauts received the Eucharist aboard Endeavour. Tom also describes the sunrise that broke into the cockpit moments after communion, and the five minutes on a spacewalk he calls the best he has spent in space. #nasaastronaut #internationalspacestation #spaceexploration #tomjones #aresoundingyes #catholicpodcast What We Talk About: Growing up during the space race, and the parents, teachers, and nuns who kept telling a fourth grader he could be part of it someday A failed Air Force Academy medical exam, a bomber assignment instead of fighters, and the five years of graduate school that followed Three hours strapped in on the launch pad, the prayers said during the wait, and the eight and a half minutes to orbit The Sunday aboard Endeavour when three Catholic astronauts shared the Eucharist, and the sunrise over the Pacific that followed Wonder, beauty, and what Tom and Fr. John offer anyone who believes faith has no place in science Resources Mentioned: Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir by Tom Jones: https://astronauttomjones.com/product... https://www.smithsonianbooks.com/stor... Turn Left at Orion by Guy Consolmagno and Dan M. Davis: https://www.cambridge.org/turnleft/ Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Paul Mueller, SJ: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo... Jesus in Space: A True Story That's Out of This World by: Cecilia Cicone: https://paulinestore.com/jesus-in-spa... Vatican Observatory: https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/ Chapters: 00:00: Welcome and introducing Dr. Tom Jones 02:31: Mary's fiat and the yeses that led to space 05:33: Asthma, a bomber assignment, and the long road to the astronaut corps 09:32: What a shuttle launch feels like from the inside 16:51: Fear, prayer, and an engine shutdown on the pad 20:03: Explorers or active participants in creation? 24:04: How the Eucharist came aboard Endeavour 27:07: Sunrise over the Pacific and the blue of the Virgin's veil 30:14: Beauty as a language for God that science cannot give 34:13: The view from orbit and the best five minutes of a spacewalk 40:10: Faith and science: Georges Lemaître and Brother Guy Consolmagno 47:29: What brings Tom the most joy now Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Subscribe to ‪@AResoundingYesPodcast‬ :    / @aresoundingyespodcast   Listen to 𝘼 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙚𝙨! Podcast: 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Q4TbEl... 🌟 Fio: https://www.play.fio.fm/show/AResound... Connect on Social Media:   / palomaandfig     / palomaandfig   🕊️ Learn more about Paloma & Fig: https://palomaandfig.com/