Storytellers Series: Our Wandering North Pole
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...
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Storytellers Series: NASA’s Amazing Landsat Satellites
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...
Storytellers Series: The Russian Moon Program – What Went Wrong?
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....
Storytellers Series: Psyche, Nasa’s Mission To The Largest Metal Asteroid
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:...
Storytellers Series: Nasa’s Innovative Artemis CLPS Initiative
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...
Storytellers Series: OSIRIS-REx: To the Asteroid Bennu and Back Again
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...
Storytellers Series: NASA’s Amazing Mission to the Asteroid Belt
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...
Storytellers Series: SpaceX’s Game Changing Starship
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...
Storytellers Series: Rockets, Rockets, and more Rockets – The Development of Rocket Engines from the Beginning of the Space Age
Presenter: John Jennings In order to escape Earth’s powerful gravity well, we need rockets. For a rocket to go anywhere, a rocket engine is required. Perfecting the design, construction, and...
Storytellers Series: Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot and Perspective-Changing Photos: “The Family Portrait”
Presenter: Donn Anderson There are currently FIVE spacecraft either on their way out of our Solar System, or have already left the influence of our Sun. Voyager 1 was the...
Storytellers Series: The Search for Life in the Universe within our own Solar System and from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Presenter: John Jennings The discoveries concerning the possibilities for life as we know it existing elsewhere in our Solar System, let alone our Universe, are gaining momentum every year. What...
The Nighthawk Briefing – Available Weekdays
Are you as infatuated with stealth aircraft as our crew members are? The next time you stop by Evergreen, join us for The Nighthawk Briefing to get an in-depth look...