Innovation Now

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Innovation Now episodes

April 04, 2023 A Cadre of Explorers
Equipped with stereo cameras, image sensors, and a wireless radio, these robots are ready to collect data in hard-to-reach places.
2 min
April 03, 2023 Practical Jokesters
A sense of humor helped the Apollo astronauts deal with the lunar darkness and utter isolation as they became the first to travel to another world.
2 min
March 31, 2023 An Intentional Collision
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test proved that asteroid deflection technology was more than a unique experiment.
2 min
March 30, 2023 Clues to the Universe
This spacecraft is hurtling toward its destination at nearly sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. At that speed, Lucy should encounter her first Trojan asteroid in 2027.
2 min
March 29, 2023 Robots in Space
Robots have been helping humans explore space for a long time.
2 min
March 28, 2023 Mons Mouton
This lunar mountain towers above the landscape, carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. And now, the mountain has a new name.
2 min
March 27, 2023 OSAM
When satellites run out of fuel, or just stop working, they are essentially orbiting around Earth “dead.”
2 min
March 24, 2023 Hitchhiking Microbes
NASA has a program specifically dedicated to making sure spacecraft are clean before they leave the launchpad.
2 min
March 23, 2023 Good Fires
The only way that we’re going to evolve with fire on our landscape is to learn how to live with good fire on our landscape again.
2 min
March 22, 2023 Landing on Mars
What’s it like landing on Mars?
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…