Innovation Now

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Innovation Now episodes

August 08, 2023 Inflatable Habitats
Building habitats on the Moon and Mars is much more complicated than building a structure on Earth.
2 min
August 07, 2023 The Dust Cycle
This NASA Earth Venture instrument will help scientists explore how dust impacts global temperatures, cloud formation, and the health of our oceans.
2 min
August 04, 2023 Hot August Nights
The same NASA technology that protects astronauts can now protect your cell phone from extreme temperatures, even on a hot August night.
2 min
August 03, 2023 Suiting Up
The Orion Crew Survival suits have been reengineered to improve safety and range of motion and will be custom fit for each crewmember.
2 min
August 02, 2023 A New Home in Houston
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. And soon those samples will have a new home.
2 min
August 01, 2023 Stepping Up to the Plate
At NASA, researchers use computer programs to conduct large complex simulations to predict how air moves. Now a team is pitching baseballs to validate their results.
2 min
July 31, 2023 Lightning
For decades NASA researchers have studied lightning, looking for patterns in the dancing bolts that light the sky.
2 min
July 28, 2023 Lunar Traction
Innovative new tires will let Artemis astronauts set new records for distances driven on the Moon.
2 min
July 27, 2023 Alerting Drivers
Tire sensors transmit information via low-frequency radio waves to the vehicle’s onboard computer, alerting drivers to a problem.
2 min
July 26, 2023 Years of Summer
With the extra sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope, we can now see more detail of this planet that takes eighty-four years to orbit the Sun.
2 min

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Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the…