29: Keeping the James Webb Space Telescope cool with Dr. Stone
The James Webb Space Telescope is the biggest astronomy project in the world right now. It's an amazingly complex robot, and some of its sensors need to be kept cool. Dr Kris Stone talks about the coo...
24 Jan 201618min
28: Building experiments for the International Space Station with Dr. White
Dr. Lauren White talks about designing and building instruments for the International Space Station (ISS). She shares a secret about designing instruments for the outside of the space station, and als...
17 Jan 201617min
27: Searching Iceland's lava fields for life on Mars with Dr. Cable
Dr Morgan Cable comes back on the podcast to tell us about how she and a team of scientists searched a fresh lava field in Iceland to look for signs of life. They pretended to see the landscape like a...
10 Jan 201619min
26: Old, volatile, and gassy: Why comets would make unpleasant but interesting dinner guests with Dr. Bauer
Dr. James "Gerbs" Bauer talks about comets, the icy dirtballs (or dirty iceballs) that orbit the Sun. We talk about the ancient Egyptian term for comets, why you probably shouldn't eat a comet, and an...
3 Jan 201614min
25: Why couldn't New Horizons orbit Pluto?
The New Horizons mission revealed Pluto's jaw-dropping vistas and geophysical mysteries. One listener wanted to know why the spacecraft didn't go into orbit around Pluto. Tom Spilker, interplanetary t...
27 Dec 201518min
24: Engineering the Galileo Probe, Pt 2.
In part 2, engineers who worked on the Galileo probe discuss what it was like when the probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere. This episode includes a bonus story about Pioneer Venus.
20 Dec 201513min
23: Engineering the Galileo Probe, Pt 1.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the successful deployment of a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, this episode is a series of interviews with the engineers who worked on this challenging, historic m...
13 Dec 201512min
22: Merging galaxies with Dr. Privon
Dr. George Privon talks about what galaxies are and what happens when two galaxies merge.
6 Dec 201513min
