Podcast Episodes
Back to Search157 - STS-79 - Blaha to Go (Lucid/Blaha Mir Swap)
Shannon Lucid has been waiting for her ride home and John Blaha is ready to swap in as America's next long duration spacefarer. We'll also fix our SR…
4 years, 2 months ago
156 - STS-78 - International Space.. Shuttle (LMS)
On this flight we'll be setting new duration records, studying the muscles of the crew, and waking up to some on-theme music. Let's just hope there's…
4 years, 3 months ago
155 - STS-77 - Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Satellite (IAE, PAMS, SPACEHAB)
On STS-77, we've got one of the strangest shuttle payloads I've ever seen, a satellite that's passively stabilized by aerodynamic forces (mostly), a …
4 years, 3 months ago
154 - Dan Tani Interview - Astronaut Early Career
Astronaut Dan Tani joins us once again and talks about what the astronaut interview process was like, what day to day life was like before being assi…
4 years, 4 months ago
153 - NASA-2 - M&Ms and Russian Friends (Lucid on Mir)
Shannon Lucid is ready to become the second American to perform a long duration aboard the Russian space station Mir. All she'll need to do is surviv…
4 years, 4 months ago
152 - STS-76 - Mirwalking (MEEP, Lucid to Mir)
On STS-76, the space shuttle will finally shuttle someone to space! Plus the first American EVA outside a space station in 22 years, antics in the SP…
4 years, 5 months ago
151 - STS-75 - Tethers in Space are a Snap (TSS-1R)
On STS-75 we'll take another try at the Tethered Satellite System. It didn't work so great on STS-46, but with much of the same crew and a little luc…
4 years, 5 months ago
150 - Galileo at Jupiter
After checking in with it for years, Galileo has finally arrived at Jupiter. For the 150th episode of The Space Above Us, let's find out what the Gal…
4 years, 6 months ago
Supplemental 7 - My First Rocket Launch
I'm taking my first break this week! So instead of an episode, I tell the tale of my first rocket launch, what it's like, and what you can do to make…
4 years, 6 months ago
149 - STS-72 - Endeavour's Hitchhiker (SFU, OAST-Flyer)
On Endeavour's tenth flight, we're somehow going to deploy one satellite, but pick up two! Plus more EVA development, zero-gravity karate, and a fare…
4 years, 7 months ago