Weekly Space Hangout: June 30, 2021 – The Gang's (Almost) All Here: Celebrating Our Journalist Team
This week, in our Season Finale, we are celebrating and honoring an extra-special group of people on the Weekly Space Hangout: Our Journalist Team! We are also excited to introduce our newest team mem...
2 Juli 20211h 6min
Weekly Space Hangout: June 23, 2021 – Making Soil for Space Habitats with Dr. Jane Shevtsov
This week we are very pleased to welcome Dr. Jane Shevtsov, Mathematical Biology Instructor at UCLA, to the WSH. Her project proposal, Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi, i...
25 Juni 202154min
Weekly Space Hangout: June 16, 2021 — Celebrating #BlackInAstro with Ashley Walker
As we prepare to celebrate #BlackInAstro week, the WSH is excited to welcome Ashley Walker, founder and organizer of #BlackInAstro, to the show. Ashley Lindalia Walker is a planetary astrochemist and ...
18 Juni 202150min
Weekly Space Hangout: June 9, 2021 — Roving Mars with Perseverance and MASTCAM-Z with Darian Dixon
This week we are very excited to welcome Darian Dixon, Curiosity (MSL) MMM operator and Percy's Mastcam-Z Data Management (ZDM) Lead at Malin Space Science Systems (https://www.msss.com/). Darian earn...
11 Juni 202155min
Weekly Space Hangout: June 2, 2021 – Advances In Warp Drive Technology Research with Dr. Mario Borunda
This week we welcome Dr. Mario Borunda to the show. In his recent article published on EarthSky.com, Mario discusses advancements in warp drive technology research. You can read his article, "Warp Dri...
4 Juni 202152min
Weekly Space Hangout: May 26, 2021 – Looking for Microbial Life in Space With Dr. Jay L. Nadeau
This week we welcome Dr. Jay L. Nadeau to the Weekly Space Hangout. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Physics department at Portland State University and the founder of the Nadeau Lab (https://moti...
28 Maj 202149min
Weekly Space Hangout: May 19, 2021 – Robotics on Mars with Dr. Ethan Schaler
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Ethan Schaler to the Weekly Space Hangout. Ethan is a Robotics Mechanical Engineer in the Robotic Actuation and Sensing Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborator...
23 Maj 202151min
Weekly Space Hangout: May 12, 2021 — Exploring Mars with "Professional Martian" Dr. Tanya Harrison
This week we are excited to welcome "Professional Martian" Dr. Tanya Harrison to the WSH. Tanya is a respected Mars expert who worked as a geoscientist and mission operations specialist on multiple NA...
15 Maj 202154min
