Episode – 2184 : The Dangers of Weightlessness and Its Solutions Podcast Transcripts The human body was built for gravity. Take it away, and bones weaken, muscles shrink, fluids shift, […]
Episode – 2166 : Nuke the Moon: Project A119
Episode – 2166 : Nuke the Moon: Project A119 Podcast Transcript At the height of the Cold War, the United States considered a plan so audacious that it sounds like […]
Episode – 2166 : Nuke the Moon: Project A119
Episode – 2166 : Nuke the Moon: Project A119 Podcast Transcript At the height of the Cold War, the United States considered a plan so audacious that it sounds like […]
Episode – 2133 : Project Mercury: America’s First Steps Into Space
Episode – 2133 : Project Mercury: America’s First Steps Into Space Podcast Transcript In the late 1950s, the United States found itself trailing in the Space Race as the Soviet […]
Episode – 2090 : Satellite Internet: How It Works
Episode – 2090 : Satellite Internet: How It Works Podcast Transcript When the Internet was first launched, it was only available on a few computers at a few research institutions. […]
Episode – 2082 : The Chicxulub Impact
Episode – 2082 : The Chicxulub Impact Podcast Transcript Around 66 million years ago, a meteorite smashed into what is today the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The impact of that […]
Episode – 2073 : Skylab
Episode – 2073 : Skylab Podcast Transcript In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next? The answer was Skylab, […]
Episode – 1993 : Europa
Episode – 1993 : Europa Podcast Transcript Located around the orbit of Jupiter is the moon Europa. It is the smallest of the Gallelian moons and the second closest to […]
Episode – 1986 : The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Episode – 1986 : The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Podcast Transcript Assuming everything goes well, sometime in late 2026, NASA’s next major space observatory will launch: The Nancy Grace […]
Episode – 1932 : Starship Update
Episode – 1932 : Starship Update Podcast Transcript One of the biggest advances in space flight right now is happening with the development of Starship. Starship is the largest rocket […]
Episode – 1894 : The Never Ending Voyager Missions
Episode – 1894 : The Never Ending Voyager Missions Podcast Transcript In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost […]
Episode – 1784 : The Moons of Jupiter
Episode – 1784 : The Moons of Jupiter In 1610, Galileo Gallieli used a new invention called the telescope to observe the planet Jupiter. What he found revolutionized the science […]
Episode – 1777 : Comets
Episode – 1777 : Comets Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, people have looked into the night sky and occasionally seen something unusual. It was something fuzzy, sometimes bright, it […]
Episode – 1737 : The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
Episode – 1737 : The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud Podcast Transcript The Solar System is a pretty big place. When most people think of our Solar System, they […]
Episode – 1711 : Lunar Eclipses
Episode – 1711 : Lunar Eclipses hr class=”wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity”/> Podcast Transcript For as long as humans have been watching the night sky, they noticed that every so often, during a […]
Episode – 1683 : Spy Satellites
Episode – 1683 : Spy Satellites Podcast Transcript A reconnaissance satellite, otherwise known as a spy satellite, is somewhere above your head right now, collecting images and gathering intelligence on […]
Episode – 1629 : How to Build a Mars Colony
Episode – 1629 : How to Build a Mars Colony Podcast Transcript Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, some people have envisioned landing humans on Mars. There are […]
Episode – 1570 : Terraforming Mars
Episode – 1570 : Terraforming Mars Podcast Transcript Ever since the dawn of the space age, there have been some who have dreamed of establishing a human presence on Mars. […]
Episode – 1567 : The Solar Cycle
Episode – 1567 : The Solar Cycle Approximately every eleven years, our sun experiences a cycle in which its magnetic poles flip. During this cycle, solar flares and sunspot activity […]
Episode – 1562 : What Has the JWST Discovered (So Far)?
Episode – 1562 : What Has the JWST Discovered (So Far)? Podcast Transcript On December 25, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched from the European Space Agency launch […]