Space Travel Supply, Blue Scholars, and Classical Music Reviews

Megan Sukys
09/02/2008

Today, we tour Seattle's Space Travel Supply Company. Guide Tim Lloyd has been obsessed with space since he was a kid, and now he's a local rocket scientist and life support engineer. We also get hip hop from Blue Scholars and classical music reviews from Gavin Borchert.

At 2:05 p.m. – Greenwood Space Travel Supply

If you want to travel through space, you could sign up as a NASA cadet and take your chances. Or you could just swing by the Space Travel Supply Company in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. They might not equip actual astronauts, but they do offer everything from alien spores to atomic teleporters. Tim Lloyd is a volunteer at the store, and in his day job, Tim is an actual rocket scientist and life support engineer. At Greenwood Space Travel Supply, he combines his scientific expertise with a sense of whimsy and wonder that the store evokes. Today, Dave Beck joins Tim at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply to learn what cherry–scented smoke rings and refrigerator magnets can teach us about life in space

At 2:20 p.m. – Blue Scholars

"There is a distance between home and where we live," — that's a line from the new album from Seattle's celebrated hip hop group, Blue Scholars. On the album, "Bayani," MC Geologic and DJ Sabzi look back on the journeys their parents, their community and the country have taken. They join us is the performance studio to share what it means for them to call the Northwest home.

At 2:40 p.m. – Gavin Borchert Classical Review

Gavin Borchert reviews "American Music for Cello and Orchestra," featuring Yehuda Hanani on cello, RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), and William Eddins, conductor.

At 2:50 p.m. – New Seed International

When doctors in a clinic in Ghana refused to give AIDS medication to patients, Rebecca Conte knew she had to do something. The doctors believed the patients were to blame for being HIV positive and didn't deserve the medicine. This was just two years ago, when Rebecca was a 21–year–old nursing student volunteering in the small village of Ho. When she came back to Seattle, she was angry. She wanted to build a clinic in Ho where patients wouldn't be refused medicine. She tells Jeannie Yandel how she did it, and why Seattle was integral to the process.