Presenter: Bill Carton Starting slowly in 2001, orbital space tourism now has 17 flown participants, with dozens on the waiting lists. Suborbital or very high altitude balloon missions have flown...
Presenters: Donn Anderson and John Jennings How do you catch up with a comet? What would it be like to orbit a comet before, during, and after its close encounter...
Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson Planned for launch in October of 2024 onboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, the Europa Clipper is an interplanetary spaceflight to the Galilean moon...
Presenter: Gary Sohn Next to the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, this was once the second most important United States defense security program. The U.S. was not allowed...
Presenter: Gary Sohn The geographic North Pole is a fixed graphic point, but the magnetic north pole has been wandering about the northern part of our globe for millions of...
Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson Landsat satellites have been showing us our Earth from space since Landsat 1 launched in 1972! Developed jointly by NASA and the U.S. Geological...
Presenter: Tuesday Docent In the 1960s, two great nations competed to “Put a man on the Moon.” Russia's N1 rocket was in development at the same time as the U.S....
Presenters: Donn Anderson and John Jennings The vast majority of asteroids have a variety of rocky compositions. But a few asteroids seem to be made primarily of something really amazing:...
Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson As part of NASA’s Artemis moon program, CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services, is designed to establish private sector lunar lander services...
Presenter: Donn Anderson NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer) is the first U.S. space mission to orbit a near Earth asteroid and return a sample...
Presenter: John Jennings NASA’s innovative DAWN spacecraft studied the conditions and processes of the solar system’s earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets in the Asteroid...
Presenter: Donn Anderson Elon Musk and SpaceX are continuing to innovate rocket development at a never before seen pace. Their Super Heavy booster rocket, with 33 state of the art...
