Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon
Come with us to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for our special coverage of the first attempt to launch the giant Space Launch System rocket toward the Moon. You’ll hear astronaut Thomas Pesquet, “Everyda...
7 Sep 20221h 10min
Space Policy Edition: Mike Gold on Crafting the Artemis Accords
As we wait for the launch of Artemis 1, we explore the Artemis Accords: a shared set of principles for exploring space, signed now by more than twenty nations. The accords outline a set of peaceful be...
2 Sep 20221h 3min
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
Join us at the Jet Propulsion Lab for the celebration of the two Voyager spacecrafts’ 45-year journey across the solar system and beyond. Stick around for a stimulating conversation with Ann Druyan, c...
31 Aug 20221h 18min
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
We now know the rough outline of how NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) expect to get the samples collected by Perseverance off Mars and into labs on Earth. Mars Sample Return Program Manager Ri...
24 Aug 202238min
A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves
Astronomer Jane Greaves and her worldwide team have had quite a ride. It has been two years since the Cardiff University professor announced evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. Many scie...
17 Aug 202248min
Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury
Scientists have used data collected by an exquisitely sensitive instrument on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe to find a stunning collection of complex organic molecules at the comet known as...
10 Aug 202243min
Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on Bringing Change to NASA
As NASA’s deputy administrator, Lori Garver fought to cancel the Constellation program and shift NASA to use commercial partnerships in spaceflight. She failed at the first but succeeded at the second...
5 Aug 20221h 13min
Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists Armin Kleinboehl and Marek Slipski lead a new project that is recruiting thousands of citizen explorers. They explain to host Mat Kaplan how this massive effort may ...
3 Aug 202235min
