About Space Today

About Space Today

By Broadcast Journalist David Denault, former NPR Space Correspondent.NewsScienceNews CommentaryAstronomy
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About Space Today episodes

  • Mars Rover Contamination Security
    With just days away from the Mars Landing of the Rover, David Denault, Host of About Space Today and Dawn Meyer, Space Coast Editor examine the protection needed from Contamination of the soil and rock samples that will be returned to Earth.
    WATCH this Wednesday for About Space Today's LIVE coverage of the Landing on Mars.
    6 min
  • The Largest Spacecraft to Land on Mars
    In less than a week from now,  The Mars 2020 Rover will land on the Red Planet.  It will be the largest spacecraft ever sent to Mars.  It will display more technologies than ever before including its unique landing guidance systems.
    8 min
  • Collecting Martian Soil & Rocks
    Today, David Denault, Host of About Space Today and Dawn Meyer Space Coast Editor will share the remarkable story of how this new generation of Martian Rovers will collect soil and rocks samples.
    5 min
  • Landing the Rover on Mars
    Join America in Space Host Rick Potlock when he continues our reports leading to the February 18, landing of the Mars 2020 Rover in the Jezreel Crater.  
    Watch the landing live on About Space Today stream.
    7 min
  • Mars 2020 Rover Landing
    In just 17 days from now, the  Mars 2020 Rover will land in the Jezreel Crater.   It will be the first time we see and hear the landing.  Join David Denault and Dawn Meyer with reports leading up to the February 18, landing.
    6 min
  • WHY NASA? Parts 4 & 5
    Join Washington Bureau Chief Rick Potlock for Parts 4 & 5 and why NASA is worth the dollars with just the benefits to mankind.  
    PLUS the Final Space Trivia Question!
    6 min
  • Japan Returns Asteroid Samples
    Japan is the country to return samples from an asteroid.  Other stories include NASA's asteroid Bennu return and the Visitor Complex at the Kennedy Space Center is fully open.  Join Host David Denault for those stories and Space Trivia Question 7.
    6 min
  • WHY NASA? Part 3
    Join Rick Potlock as he continues his series is NASA worth the dollars.  In Part 3,  Rick presents the "Spin-Off's" or off-shoots of space technology.
    6 min
  • Space Travel's Atomic Clock
    In the past our astronauts used a Sextant to guide them and to find their location.  All that may history.  Join Host David Denault as he presents the Atomic Clock for space explorers.
    6 min
  • UFO's Back in the News
    Hidden in the 2.3 trillion spending bill was an authorization act is calling for an unclassified and all-sources report on UFO 's.  Join David Denault with this special report.
    4 min

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