Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 26, 2024. In the olden days, NASA developed its missions using a va...

4 Mars 202435min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 709: Space Weapons by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 19, 2024. [My apologies for Fraser's audio dropouts. We're not sure how it happened as it wasn't happening at...

26 Feb 202432min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets? by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Feb 12, 2024. Last week we talked about sample return missions from...

19 Feb 202436min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 707: What Goes Into A Sample Return Mission? Moon & Mars by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 5, 2024. We've sent robots to other worlds, but the amount of science w...

12 Feb 202432min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 706: China's Space Program by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 30, 2024. We're so familiar with NASA's exploration efforts in space, but you might be surprised to l...

5 Feb 202438min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 705: Water Worlds - Looking For Life Beyond Earth by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live January 17, 2024. Wherever we find liquid water on Earth, we find life, so it makes s...

22 Jan 202432min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 704: NASA's Juno Releases New Images by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live January 8, 2024. NASA's Juno spacecraft has completed dozens of flybys of Jupiter, seeing the plan...

15 Jan 202429min

Astronomy Cast Ep. 703: Solar Maximum of Doom? Maybe by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Dec 20, 2023. Solar cycle 25 is shaping up to be a doozy, with plenty of flares and coronal mass e...

8 Jan 202433min