Robert Bigelow and His Expandable Space Habs
Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM expandable/inflatable space module will be attached to the International Space Station later this year. Mat travels to the company’s headquarters for a conversation with found...
31 Mars 201528min
Big News From Little Worlds
Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla has returned from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas with the latest revelations about our solar system. She shares them in an extended report. Learn mo...
24 Mars 201528min
Leaving Behind a Life on Mars—Former Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger
The Mars Science Laboratory rover has accomplished its primary goals on the Red Planet, and John Grotzinger has left his central role to become Chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Scienc...
17 Mars 201534min
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo
6,000 job-seekers came to the new Long Beach, California home of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket on a recent morning. We sit down with CEO George Whitesides for a conversation about this new effo...
10 Mars 201528min
Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” He talks with Mat Kaplan about the magnificent grand tour of the outer solar syst...
3 Mars 201546min
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius Space Machines is one.Learn more about your ad choices...
24 Feb 201528min
Found! Beagle 2 on Mars
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been found, partially-deployed on the Martian surface. Longtime...
17 Feb 201528min
Year of the Icy Worlds
We’ll visit the Jet Propulsion Lab on its Icy Worlds Day to learn more about spacecraft exploring Ceres, Enceladus and Europa from leaders of these missions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
10 Feb 201528min
