NASACast Audio

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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NASACast combines the content of all the NASACast subject area podcasts into a single omnibus podcast. Here you'll find the latest news and features on NASA's missions as well as the popular "This Week @NASA" newsreel.

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04.09.2021 This Week @NASA, April 9, 2021 The President’s Funding Request for NASA and more ...
04.09.2021 Gravity Assist: Season 5 Trailer – What’s Your Gravity Assist? Go behind the scenes at NASA with Chief Scientist Jim Green in the Gravity Assist podcast.
04.09.2021 Before His Second Flight NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who launched to the International Space Station on April 9, 2021, shares his experiences from his first flight to the orbiting laboratory and what he looks forward to for his second flight. HWHAP Episode 190.
04.07.2021 Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight: Astronaut Bob Crippen on the Legacy of STS-1 & Columbia The spotlights came on in the predawn hours of April 12th 1981, illuminating a spacecraft like no other, the space shuttle. Just before liftoff, Columbia's crew climbed inside for the very first test flight into space.
04.06.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 57, Shuttle Program Closeout Complexities NASA's Johnny Nguyen discusses insight gained through closeout of the Space Shuttle Program.
04.02.2021 Benefits for Humanity, Science for All Expert scientists and researchers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center gather to highlight the scientific breakthroughs aboard the International Space Station during a recent panel discussion celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence aboard the orbiting laboratory. HWHAP Episode 189.
04.02.2021 This Week @NASA, April 2, 2021 BioSentinel CubeSat Prepares for Deep Space Flight and more ...
03.26.2021 Artificial Gravity Bill Paloski, former director of the Human Research Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, explores the idea of artificial gravity within a spacecraft for long-duration missions and explains how it may affect the human body from what we have learned ...
03.26.2021 This Week @NASA, March 26, 2021 Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Preparing for First Flight and more ...
03.23.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 56, Model-based Systems Engineering NASA's Terry Hill and Jessica Knizhnik discuss the agency's transition to model-based systems engineering.
03.19.2021 This Week @NASA, March 19, 2021 Second Hot Fire Test for Artemis I Rocket and more ...
03.19.2021 The View From Mission Control Experts of NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston recount what it has taken to support 20 years of continuous presence on the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 187.
03.18.2021 Episode 28: Women in STEM - Stories of Challenge and Success When instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was in Firing Room number One for the historic moonshot in 1969, she was the only woman. NASA has come a long way since. Today, the very same firing room is led by a woman, ...
03.12.2021 This Week @NASA, March 12, 2021 Perseverance Sends More Sounds from Mars and more ...
03.12.2021 The Next One-Year Missions Cherie Oubre, Steve Platts, and Nikki Schwanbeck, expert human researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, discuss CIPHER, a complement of research protocols that investigates multiple aspects of the human body over varied durations of human space missions. HWHAP Episode 186.
03.09.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission Psyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
03.05.2021 This Week @NASA, March 5, 2021 President Biden Congratulates Mars 2020 Team and more ...
03.05.2021 Returning the First Martians Experts from NASA’s Mars Architecture Team gather to discuss the mechanics of returning the first astronauts from the surface of Mars back home to Earth on the final episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP Episode 185.
02.27.2021 This Week @NASA, Feb. 27, 2021 How it Looks to Land on Mars and more ...
02.26.2021 Expedition 1: The Beginning George Abbey, former center director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, former Expedition 1 training integrator Ginger Kerrick, and Expedition 1 crew members Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev gather to relive the first long-duration mission aboard the International Space ...
02.24.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program NASA Astrophysicist and Pioneers Program Lead Scientist Michael Garcia discusses the new program’s first mission concepts selected for further development.
02.22.2021 Sounds of Mars On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover completed its 300 million mile journey and landed safely on the Red Planet. Here’s what it heard. This special episode of NASA’s Curious Universe features the first-ever raw recorded sounds from Mars. ...
02.20.2021 This Week @NASA, Feb. 20, 2021 Mars 2020 Mission Lands Safely and more
02.19.2021 Spaceborne Computer Mark Fernandez, principal investigator for the Spaceborne Computer-2, details the experiment on the International Space Station that will further test the capabilities of in-space computing which may help humans explore deeper into space. HWHAP Episode 183.
02.19.2021 Episode 27: Being Black in the NASA Family, Finding Inspiration, and Becoming More Inclusive The Rocket Ranch welcomes Sheldon Lauderdale, Program Analyst for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, to share where he draws inspiration and talk about his role supporting NASA’s efforts to expand diversity and inclusion to empower the next generation of explorers.
02.12.2021 This Week @NASA, Feb. 12, 2021 Tracking the Mars 2020 Mission and more ...
02.12.2021 Gravity Assist: Driving on Mars, with rover driver Sophia Mitchell What does it take to drive a rover that’s more than 100 million miles away? Sophia Mitchell at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been driving the Mars Curiosity rover since 2018.
02.12.2021 Mars Perseverance Landing Chloe Sackier, entry, descent, and landing communications systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, illustrates the shortest and most intense phase of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission. HWHAP Episode 182
02.09.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 53, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Bob Balaram discusses the first experimental aircraft flight on another planet.
02.05.2021 This Week @NASA, Feb. 5, 2021 Space Station’s New Source of Power and more ...
02.05.2021 Suit Up for Mars Natalie Mary, spacesuit systems engineer, explains what needs to be considered in the design and operation of a spacesuit that will be used to explore the surface of the Red Planet on the tenth episode of our Mars Monthly series. ...
02.04.2021 Episode 26: Perseverance Rover: Rapid Disassembly, Martian Mission, and Beyond After a 300 million mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance Rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip, landing on the red planet. If successful, it will embark on the most advanced mission ever sent ...
01.29.2021 This Week @NASA, Jan. 29, 2021 First Space Station Spacewalk of 2021 and more ...
01.29.2021 Artemis Mission Management Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, breaks down the intricate planning and integrated teams that are preparing the next missions to the Moon. Sarafin details the mission profile for Artemis I. HWHAP Episode 180.
01.26.2021 Episode 25: Lessons of Loss On this episode of the Rocket Ranch Podcast, we remember Challenger, her crew and their survivors, and how we carry forward the lessons NASA learned with the director of the Apollo Challenger Columbia Lessons Learned Program.
01.25.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 52, Mars Perseverance Rover Science Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan discusses science objectives of NASA’s first astrobiology-focused mission to the Red Planet.
01.22.2021 This Week @NASA, Jan. 22, 2021 Green Run Review Indicates Core Stage in Good Condition and more ,,,
01.22.2021 Commercial Airlock Brock Howe, Bishop Airlock program manager at Nanoracks, details the history, design, and capabilities of the permanent commercial module that is now attached to the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 179.
01.15.2021 This Week @NASA, Jan. 15, 2021 NASA Analysis: 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record and more ...
01.15.2021 International Trailblazer Sergei Krikalev, cosmonaut and flight engineer of Expedition 1, the first long-duration mission to the International Space Station, recounts the 20th anniversary of this mission and a career of fostering international collaboration. HWHAP Episode 178.
01.12.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 51, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign NASA Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Deputy Lead Shivanjli Sharma discusses the "third revolution" in aviation.
01.08.2021 This Week @NASA, Jan. 8, 2021 Proceeding with Green Run Hot Fire Test for Artemis and more ...
01.08.2021 Welcome to Mars Paul Niles, planetary geologist and analytical geochemist, describes the Mars environment, terrain, weather, atmosphere, and more that humans will face while living on the Red Planet on this ninth episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP Episode 177.
12.23.2020 Gravity Assist: Your Questions About Life Out There and Down Here Why don’t we go live on Saturn’s moon Titan? What would it mean if we found life elsewhere? How did life get its start on Earth? NASA’s chief scientist Jim Green and astrobiologist Lindsay Hays discuss these and other audience ...
12.22.2020 Season 3, Episode 10: A Voyager’s View of Earth The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther away from Earth than any human-made object. Candy Hansen and David Grinspoon talk about the Voyager mission, and its humbling perspective of our planet as a tiny blue dot in the blackness of ...
12.21.2020 This Year @NASA 2020 Highlights of what NASA did in 2020.
12.18.2020 Gravity Assist: The Bright Spot of the Asteroid Belt, with Britney Schmidt Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is a mysterious dwarf planet called Ceres. Its surface is dark and muddy, but has hundreds of patches of bright material.
12.18.2020 Muscles on Chips in Space Dr. Siobhan Malany, president of Micro-gRx and associate professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, brings her expertise to discuss tissue chips containing human muscle cells that recently made their way to the International Space Station for investigation. ...
12.15.2020 Season 3, Episode 9: Life Bound We hike in the Australian Outback with Abigail Allwood to visit the most ancient fossils on Earth, and track the imprint of life over space and time with David Grinspoon.
12.11.2020 This Week @NASA, Dec. 11, 2020 Vice President Pence Introduces the Artemis Team of Astronauts, and more ...

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NASACast Audio episodes:

This Week @NASA, April 9, 2021

Gravity Assist: Season 5 Trailer – What’s Your Gravity Assist?

Before His Second Flight

Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight: Astronaut Bob Crippen on the Legacy of STS-1 & Columbia

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 57, Shuttle Program Closeout Complexities

Benefits for Humanity, Science for All

This Week @NASA, April 2, 2021

Artificial Gravity

This Week @NASA, March 26, 2021

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 56, Model-based Systems Engineering

This Week @NASA, March 19, 2021

The View From Mission Control

Episode 28: Women in STEM - Stories of Challenge and Success

This Week @NASA, March 12, 2021

The Next One-Year Missions

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission

This Week @NASA, March 5, 2021

Returning the First Martians

This Week @NASA, Feb. 27, 2021

Expedition 1: The Beginning

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program

Sounds of Mars

This Week @NASA, Feb. 20, 2021

Spaceborne Computer

Episode 27: Being Black in the NASA Family, Finding Inspiration, and Becoming More Inclusive

This Week @NASA, Feb. 12, 2021

Gravity Assist: Driving on Mars, with rover driver Sophia Mitchell

Mars Perseverance Landing

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 53, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

This Week @NASA, Feb. 5, 2021

Suit Up for Mars

Episode 26: Perseverance Rover: Rapid Disassembly, Martian Mission, and Beyond

This Week @NASA, Jan. 29, 2021

Artemis Mission Management

Episode 25: Lessons of Loss

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 52, Mars Perseverance Rover Science

This Week @NASA, Jan. 22, 2021

Commercial Airlock

This Week @NASA, Jan. 15, 2021

International Trailblazer

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 51, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign

This Week @NASA, Jan. 8, 2021

Welcome to Mars

Gravity Assist: Your Questions About Life Out There and Down Here

Season 3, Episode 10: A Voyager’s View of Earth

This Year @NASA 2020

Gravity Assist: The Bright Spot of the Asteroid Belt, with Britney Schmidt

Muscles on Chips in Space

Season 3, Episode 9: Life Bound

This Week @NASA, Dec. 11, 2020

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