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Gravity Assist: Gardens at the Bottom of the Sea, with Laurie Barge
Laurie Barge, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studies how plant-looking mineral structures called chimneys grow from chemicals found at the deepest depths of the ocean. In her lab she has glass vials and bulbs full...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Space Launch System: Part 2
Paul Bookout and David Smith continue their conversation about the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V: The Space Launch System. The experts discuss the construction, testing, evolution and potential of the skyscraper-sized launch...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: SpaceX Demo-2
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken test their knowledge about each other, plus flight director Zebulon Scoville gives us a glimpse of the mission profile for this test flight before Doug and Bob’s launch aboard the SpaceX...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: NASA and the Texas Economy
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar talks about managing finances for the Lone Star State and for its citizens. Hegar describes the economic impact of NASA on the state of Texas based on a report drafted by the Comptroller's...
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Webb Instrument Overview
An overview of the instruments onboard the Webb Telescope: the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 9: Developing Technology
NASA has a reputation for creating history changing technology, and much of that technology is available to you right now. One of our secrets to success is that we aren’t developing all of this by ourselves. We’re leveraging industry and...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Solving the Mystery of Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 26, 2017.
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The Invisible Network: 14. Ansible | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
Faster-than-light communications might not be a possibility now — our current understanding of natural laws don’t allow for it. But who knows what innovations await us just beyond the horizon?
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Perseverance
Luther Beegle, Deputy Division Manager for Science at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, takes us through the history of previous landers we have sent to Mars and highlights Perseverance, the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Apollo 10
In this recording of a live panel at the Johnson Space Center, experts discuss the historic Apollo 10 mission and how the lessons learned from that time will help us achieve our goal of returning to the Moon in 2024. HWHAP Episode 92.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: NASA in Silicon Valley Live - Meet NASA in Silicon Valley
In this episode streamed on Feb. 12, 2018, we talk about the exciting research happening at NASA's Ames Research Center with Center Director Eugene Tu and participants of the 2018 #StateOfNASA NASA Social event at Ames.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Heroes Behind the Heroes: Part 4
In part four of this series, the team of scientists and technical staff turns 19,000 hours of digitized audio into transcripts, all of which can be accessed online. HWHAP Episode 91.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Best of Year Two
Houston, we have a birthday! Episode 99 is a special episode to celebrate two years of Houston We Have a Podcast. Host Gary Jordan sits down with audio engineer Alex Perryman, co-host Pat Ryan, and co-host Dan Huot to talk about their...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Best of Year Three
The entire Houston We Have a Podcast team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (virtually) gets together for their third anniversary to reflect on another year, highlighting their favorite episodes and moments working together on the podcast....
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Neutral Buoyancy
Kristie Melass and Jim Fuderer, Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory divers, describe life as part of the underwater diving teams that help astronauts train for spacewalks. HWHAP Episode 146.
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NASA's Curious Universe: Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere!
The night sky is full of planets, satellites, and cosmic objects we can see with our eyes and telescopes. In between all that material there’s a huge amount of invisible matter and the vast majority of it is called plasma. Follow along...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Sylvain Costes Talks About NASA’s Treasure Trove of Space Biology Data
A conversation with Sylvain Costes, the Project Manager for GeneLab, a space biology database run out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Marc Murbach Talks About Building Small Cube Satellites
A conversation with Marc Murbach, the Principal Investigator for the Technology Education Satellite (TechEdSat) based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Experiment Reveals Earth Microbes’ Likely Fate on Mars: Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on March 30, 2017.
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The Invisible Network: 21. LCRD - The Design: Ground | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
In this fourth episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD ground segment, which consists of infrastructure in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico.
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The Invisible Network: 08. Form and Function | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
"Form follows function" is an oft-cited architectural axiom. In space, form doesn’t necessarily follow function. Human space habitation is rooted, by necessity, in pragmatism. The architectures of Earth won’t work in space, but there is...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 37, NASA Safety Center Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Safety Center Director Harmony Myers discusses resources to help achieve technical excellence in safety and mission assurance.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: In Case of Emergency
Jason Hutt, Orion Crew Systems Integrations Lead, explains how the crew is prepared to respond effectively in the unlikely event of an emergency on board the Orion spacecraft at any stage of flight. HWHAP Episode 104.
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 7: Turning Space Trash into Gas
As we plan to send humans farther into our solar system than ever before, we must overcome a myriad of challenges. And at the top of the heap… is trash. Just like here on Earth, humans in space create trash—but we don’t have interstellar...