It’s Rocket Science: Testing PlanetVac in the Mojave Desert
Join Mat Kaplan in California’s Mojave Desert for special coverage of not one but two rocket flights and a real world test of PlanetVac, the innovative, radically simple way to collect surface samples...
6 Jun 201848min
Space Policy Edition: Space Policy Directive 2—This Time it's Commercial
President Trump just signed a new space policy directive targeting the regulations surrounding commercial spaceflight. Casey Dreier, Jason Davis and Mat Kaplan dive into the implications of the new di...
1 Jun 20181h 11min
A Sacred Place: The National Air and Space Museum with Ellen Stofan
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan has just become Director of the most popular museum in the United States. The NASM protects and shares the greatest collection of space and aviation treasures on Eart...
30 Mai 201835min
Chasing New Horizons to Pluto with Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
The New Horizons mission was a triumph, revealing Pluto as an utterly unique and beautiful world. But the mission first had to survive challenge after challenge, fighting to be developed, meeting a ne...
23 Mai 201854min
Why Mars? We’ve Got the Answers
The great adventure awaits! Mat Kaplan hosts an entertaining panel discussion at the 2018 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC. Eight guests provide their diverse and inspiring reasons for humans t...
16 Mai 201838min
Amy Mainzer: Asteroid Hunter
After taking over 10 million images of more than 30,000 solar system objects, the NEOWISE mission is finally in its last months. Principal Investigator Amy Mainzer returns with an update on this phen...
9 Mai 201836min
Space Policy Edition: A Commercial Future for the Space Station?
After announcing it intends to divest from the International Space Station in 2025, NASA quietly released a new report on its transition plans, laying out a series of principles that will set the futu...
4 Mai 20181h 3min
All Shook Up: The InSight Mission to Mars
No mission to Mars has done what InSight will do. The lander’s spectacularly sensitive instruments will use the Red Planet’s heat and marsquakes to reveal its deep interior while also revealing secre...
2 Mai 20181h 21min
