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This week we are joined by Dr. Sarah McAnulty. Sarah is a squid biologist and the executive director of the science communication non-profit Skype a Scientist which matches scientists with people all around the world.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: May 20, 2020 — Dr. Sarah McAnulty from Skype A Scientist”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 52:30 — 24.0MB)
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This week we are pleased to welcome Seth Shostak to the Weekly Space Hangout. Seth is Senior Astronomer and Institute Fellow at the SETI Institute. With degrees in physics and astronomy from Princeton University and Caltech, he has a long history of research in radio astronomy and in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: May 13, 2020 – Dr. Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 58:12 — 26.7MB)
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org)
Beth Johnson (@planetarypan)
Veranika Klimovich ( @VeranikaSpace)
This week we welcome Dr. Pascal Lee to the Weekly Space Hangout. Pascal is chairman of the Mars Institute, planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, and director of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) at NASA Ames. He holds an ME in geology and geophysics from the University of Paris, and a PhD in astronomy and space sciences from Cornell.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: May 6, 2020 – Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars”Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein)
Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz)
Alex Teachey (alexteachey.com /@alexteachey)
This week we are pleased to welcome Chris Carberry to the Weekly Space Hangout. Chris is CEO and Co-Founder of Explore Mars, Inc, and helped to turn that organization into one of the most influential space nonprofits in the world. Previous to his role with Explore Mars, Chris served as Executive Director of The Mars Society as well the Archivist of Modern Political Collections and Operations Manager at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: April 29, 2020 – Alcohol in Space with Chris Carberry”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 59:06 — 27.3MB)
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dr. Pamela Gay (Cosmoquest.org / @StarStryder )
Moiya McTier (https://www.moiyamctier.com/ / @GoAstroMo)
Allen Versfeld (https://www.urban-astronomer.com/ / @uastronomer)
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Fred Watson to the WSH. Fred is Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large, an outreach and advocacy role within the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources. He is graduate of the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, and worked at both of Britain’s Royal Observatories before joining the Australian Astronomical Observatory as Astronomer-in-Charge in 1995.
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein)
Beth Johnson (@planetarypan))
Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck)
This week we are please to welcome Laura Forczyk to the Weekly Space Hangout. Laura is the owner of space consulting firm Astralytical specializing in space science, industry, and policy, and offering space career coaching services. In January 2020, her new book Rise of the Space Age Millennials was published in which she explores how millennials working or studying to work in the space sector feel about space: priorities, opinions, goals, and motivations. It also looks at how the generations may differ and how that may effect future space priorities and missions.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: April 15, 2020 – Rise of the Space Age Millennials with Laura Forczyk”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 1:01:01 — 45.2MB)
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz)
Beth Johnson (@planetarypan)
Veranika Klimovich ( @VeranikaSpace)
This week we are excited to welcome Colonel Mike Mullane to the Weekly Space Hangout. Mike was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts. He completed three space missions aboard the Shuttles Discovery (STS-41D) and Atlantis (STS-27 & 36) before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: April 8, 2020 – Colonel Mike Mullane, Astronaut”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 53:21 — 38.5MB)
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )
Pam Hoffman (EverydaySpacer.com / @EverydaySpacer)
Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck)
Announcements:
This week we are airing Fraser’s prerecorded interview with Dr. Robert B. Hayes, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Hayes is co-author of a recent paper published January 7.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: April 1, 2020 – Dr. Robert B. Hayes and Radiation Shielding in Space”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 57:40 — 42.0MB)
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Allen Versfeld (https://www.urban-astronomer.com/ / @uastronomer)
Carolyn Collins Petersen (TheSpaceWriter.com / @spacewriter)
Alex Teachey (alexteachey.com /@alexteachey
We are pleased to once again welcome our good friend Amy Shira Teitel back to the WSH to chat about her most recent labor of love, her new book Fighting for Space which tells the story of female pilots who dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: March 25, 2020 – Amy Shira Teitel’s Fighting for Space”Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Beth Johnson (@planetarypan)
Moiya McTier (https://www.moiyamctier.com/ / @GoAstroMo)
Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein)
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Meng Jin, Research Scientist at the SETI Institute, to the Weekly Space Hangout. Meng uses numerical modeling techniques to analyze Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and related events [e.g., CME-Driven Shocks and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs).]
Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: March 18, 2020 – Dr. Meng Jin and Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections”Podcast (wshaudio): Download (Duration: 55:33 — 40.6MB)
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