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
New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
She is only the tenth director of JPL, and the first woman to hold the position. It’s a homecoming for Laurie Leshin who got her PhD at Caltech, the operator of JPL on behalf of NASA. Laurie talks abo...
27 Jul 20221h 1min
Science from the Moon, and former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back
Host Mat Kaplan leads with a special announcement. Then we spend a fascinating hour with the former director of NASA’s Planetary Science division and retired chief scientist Jim Green, who reports on ...
20 Jul 20221h 19min
The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide
Have you seen them? Five spectacular images have given us a taste of what’s ahead from the James Webb Space Telescope. Bill Nye will share his reactions after we hear excerpts from NASA’s image reveal...
13 Jul 20221h 16min
A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity
No one deserves more credit for enabling the new era of commercial space development than former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver. That includes the commercial crew program that brings astronauts...
6 Jul 20221h 19min
Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program
It’s the 25th anniversary of the Pathfinder Mars mission and Sojourner, the first rover on the Red Planet. Historian Michael Neufeld joins the show to put this path blazing mission in context as the s...
1 Jul 20221h 15min
Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense
We Earthlings are making progress toward defending our planet from near-Earth objects, which is reason enough for the annual Asteroid Day celebration. Co-founder Danica Remy tells us what to expect, w...
29 Jun 202255min
