Searching for ET With Pete Worden

Searching for ET With Pete Worden

Are we alone? The nearly sixty-year effort to answer that question has gotten a big boost from the Breakthrough Initiatives, funded by Yuri Milner and led by former NASA Ames Research Center director Pete Worden, who is our guest this week.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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LightSail 2: A Year of Solar Sailing

LightSail 2: A Year of Solar Sailing

The LightSail 2 team and 50,000 supporters around the world will celebrate the little spacecraft’s first anniversary on orbit in a few days. Planetary Society Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Vaughn r...

17 Kesä 202051min

Staying Alive in Space

Staying Alive in Space

Keeping humans alive and well in space is hard enough. How will this be accomplished on a 3-year journey to Mars and back? Paragon President and CEO Grant Anderson shares the great progress we’ve made...

10 Kesä 202057min

Space Policy Edition: NASA’s Gamble Pays Off

Space Policy Edition: NASA’s Gamble Pays Off

SpaceX's Crew Dragon safely carried 2 astronauts to the ISS, nearly a decade after NASA made a huge bet on commercial partnerships to solve a problem of access to the space station. Casey and Mat expl...

5 Kesä 20201h 17min

Crew Dragon Thrills While Mars Chills

Crew Dragon Thrills While Mars Chills

This episode opens with a special message about The Planetary Society’s response to recent news, followed by a period of silence that marks the unjust loss of George Floyd and other black men and wome...

3 Kesä 202048min

Celebrating 30 Years of Hubble with Astronaut John Grunsfeld

Celebrating 30 Years of Hubble with Astronaut John Grunsfeld

Former astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld is often called the Hubble Repairman. He made three space shuttle trips to the space telescope to repair and upgrade it. Now he looks b...

27 Touko 20201h 1min

Crew Dragon Deep Dive with Astronaut Garrett Reisman

Crew Dragon Deep Dive with Astronaut Garrett Reisman

Engineer and former astronaut Garrett Reisman spent four months on the International Space Station before moving to SpaceX. Ten years of work at the company are about to climax when a Crew Dragon caps...

20 Touko 202043min

Looking for Life in Alien Oceans

Looking for Life in Alien Oceans

Jet Propulsion Lab astrobiologist Kevin Hand has just written Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space. Kevin and Mat explore these seas and whether they may have nurtured organisms wi...

13 Touko 202053min

The Crew Dragon Countdown Begins, With Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

The Crew Dragon Countdown Begins, With Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

Lori Garver may have been the strongest advocate of commercial space development in her days at NASA. Now one of that program’s greatest goals is about to achieved with the flight of American astronau...

6 Touko 202058min

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