At the Space Settlement Summit With Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
He led NASA for eight years, but not till he had flown on four Space Shuttle missions and enjoyed a long military career. Charlie Bolden talks with Mat about his time at the space agency and where we’...
12 Joulu 201850min
Space Policy Edition: Canada's Uncertain Future in Space (with Kate Howells)
Canada was the third country in history to launch a satellite into space, but now lags in its space ambitions, capability, and spending. What happened? Kate Howells, who serves on the Canadian Space A...
7 Joulu 20181h 7min
Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.
The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after traveling through deep space for a year and a half. We’ll talk with the Planetary Society’s Jason Dav...
5 Joulu 201840min
A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight
Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in with Bill Nye and Emily Lakdawalla at the Jet Propulsio...
28 Marras 201859min
We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life
NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero crater, where it will begin the search for the signature of past life. The selection process took five...
21 Marras 201842min
Space Policy Edition: After the Midterms—Looking Ahead with Marcia Smith
The counting continues as we publish this month’s special episode, with a handful of seats in the US Senate and House still up for grabs. But with the Democratic takeover of the House assured, and se...
16 Marras 201850min
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is also mad about stereoscopic imag...
14 Marras 201835min
Where Do We Come From? – Exploring the Origins of Life Lab
They may be the most important questions in all of science: Where do we come from? Are we alone? Researchers Ralph Pudritz and Maikel Rheinstadter are working on these puzzles with their new Planetar...
7 Marras 201838min
