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A Rocket on a Rocket
Season 1 Episode 25
Wahab Alshahin, Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer, talks about what a launch abort system is, how it works, and why it's necessary to send hu…
8 years, 2 months ago
Space Habitat
Season 1 Episode 24
Lisa Spence, Flight Analogs Project Manager, and Dr. Paul Haugen, HERA Operations Engineer, talk about the space habitat analog here in Texas. They t…
8 years, 2 months ago
Test Pilot to Astronaut
Season 1 Episode 23
Scott Tingle, NASA Astronaut, talks about his education in mechanical engineering, his time in the Navy as a test pilot, and his astronaut training b…
8 years, 2 months ago
Astronaut Health
Season 1 Episode 22
Dr. Natacha Chough, Flight Surgeon, talks about what flight surgeons do and how they work with astronauts to monitor their health during spaceflight.…
8 years, 3 months ago
Microgravity University
Season 1 Episode 21
Mike McGlone, NASA Education Specialist, talks about how the different education programs here in Texas influence students to pursue careers in STEM …
8 years, 3 months ago
Special Delivery with NASA in Silicon Valley
Season 1 Episode 20
Shane Kimbrough, NASA Astronaut, and Dennis Leveson-Gower, Senior Project Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, talk about cargo and science goin…
8 years, 3 months ago
Weather to Launch
Season 1
Tim Garner, Meteorologist in Charge at the Johnson Space Center, talks about how weather affects human spaceflight, especially for launches, landings…
8 years, 3 months ago
Mars
Season 1
Dr. Doug Archer, Planetary Scientist, talks about Mars: what its made of, what it's like on the surface, and why it's such an intriguing place for hu…
8 years, 3 months ago
Orion
Season 1
Nujoud Merancy, Mission Planning and Analysis Lead for the Orion spacecraft, talks about what Orion is, how it will work, what kinds of tests are bei…
8 years, 4 months ago
Spacesuits
Season 1
Les Padilla, Hardware Manager of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), talks about spacesuits: how they work, what they're made of, how they've evo…
8 years, 4 months ago