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Podcast Episode 95: Developmental Assignments

NASA’s Nick Jedrich and Andrew Maynard discuss the benefits of developmental assignments.

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Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Sample Caching System Sterile Flight Model hardware is being prepared for installation on the Mars Perseverance rover on May 21, 2020. Credit: NASA/JPL
Podcast Episode 94: Mars Sample Return

Mars Sample Return Scientists Lindsay Hays and Meenakshi Wadhwa discuss the mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth.

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A photo of two deer at Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA/James Blair
Podcast Episode 93: Circuit Theory Application to Animal Movement

The Nature Conservancy’s Kim Hall discusses the use of NASA Earth observation data to map animal movement and patterns.

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This is an optimized 3D design of spaceflight hardware generated by artificial intelligence. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 92: Evolved Structures

NASA Research Engineer Ryan McClelland discusses digital engineering technologies that are transforming classical engineering tasks and processes.

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Artist's concept of OSAM-1 servicing a satellite in space. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 91: OSAM-1

OSAM-1 Lead Systems Engineer Wendy Morgenstern discusses NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 mission to robotically refuel a satellite that wasn’t designed to be serviced.

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This is an illustration if Earth and its magnetic field, colored in bright green and yellow. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 90: Effects of Space Radiation

NASA Space Radiation Element Scientist Robin Elgart discusses research aimed at reducing radiation health risks.

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View of the Zakim bridge and Charlestown. Credit: Datawheel LLC
Podcast Episode 89: The Big Dig

Boston University Assistant Professor Virginia Greiman discusses enduring lessons from the largest, most technically challenging highway project in U.S. history.

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Illustration of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the first aircraft humanity has sent to another planet to attempt powered, controlled flight. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 88: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flights

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Pilot Håvard Grip discusses the rotorcraft’s history-making flights on the Red Planet.

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This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. Using NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and a fast camera called ULTRACAM on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palma, Spain, scientists have been able to measure the distance that particles in jets travel before they "turn on" and become bright sources of light. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 87: NuSTAR

NuSTAR Principal Investigator Fiona Harrison discusses NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

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