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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07.30.2021 This Week @NASA, July 30, 2021 Next Commercial Crew Mission to Space Station and more ...
07.30.2021 Gravity Assist: Diving Into NASA History, with NASA Intern Felicia Ragucci In honor of National Intern Day, Gravity Assist features Felicia Ragucci, an undergraduate at Dartmouth College who recently completed an internship with NASA’s History Office and the Office of the Chief Scientist. During her time at NASA, Felicia researched the ...
07.29.2021 How to Be a Successful Intern NASA interns Jaden Chambers and Leah Davis join student mentor Kelly Smith to discuss the experience of being a NASA intern and what it takes to stand out. HWHAP Episode 206.
07.29.2021 'The Invisible Network' Podcast - 2021 Interns Each year, NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Internship Project welcomes students of all levels to develop projects of real benefit to the agency while earning real world experience in their fields. In this episode of The Invisible Network podcast, ...
07.28.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 65, NASA Intern Experiences NASA Intern Nick Syracuse discusses his virtual internship experiences.
07.26.2021 Earth’s Expanding Oceans With Earth’s recent record-breaking temperatures, the pace of sea level rise has accelerated. NASA scientists take us on a trip into their research right here on our home planet. Join us as we fly over Antarctic ice sheets and consult ...
07.23.2021 This Week @NASA, July 23, 2021 Crew Dragon Port Relocation on Space Station and more ...
07.23.2021 Gravity Assist: Onward to Venus, with Lori Glaze NASA is sending two missions to Venus this decade and participating in a European Space Agency mission there, too. Lori Glaze, director of planetary science at NASA, discusses these missions and why she’s so excited about what we’re about to ...
07.23.2021 Go Starliner! Bob Dempsey, NASA flight director at the Johnson Space Center, provides an overview of NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2, the second uncrewed test flight of the Starliner spacecraft. HWHAP Episode 205.
07.19.2021 Interpreting Our Universe You’ve probably seen beautiful images of space taken from telescopes around the world and out in orbit. But how does a bunch of intergalactic information become a vibrant photograph? And what else can we see, feel, and hear from that ...
07.16.2021 This Week @NASA, July 16, 2021 Teams Adding Orion’s Critical Launch Abort System for Artemis I and more ...
07.16.2021 Women in STEM Sophia Hahn, Shelita Hall, and Emily Anderson, NASA interns from across the agency, discuss being women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math), their journey to work at NASA, and the unique opportunities they have experienced during their internship. HWHAP ...
07.14.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 64, Space Communications and Navigation NASA Space Communications and Navigation Chief Engineer Neil Mallik discusses how SCaN keeps the universe connected.
07.12.2021 Let’s Go Planet-Hunting! What do we know about the planets outside our solar system? NASA planet hunters Jessie Christiansen and Knicole Colon take us beyond...into the exciting world of exoplanets.
07.09.2021 This Week @NASA, July 9, 2021 Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Departs the Space Station and more ...
07.09.2021 The Best of Year 4 Houston We Have a Podcast celebrates its fourth birthday with memories and clips of the team’s favorite episodes to reminisce on another year filled with weekly episodes covering launches, NASA’s Artemis program, the International Space Station, science and research, Mars, ...
07.09.2021 Gravity Assist: A Dream, a Team, a Chance to Fly on Mars, with MiMi Aung The idea for NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter began at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a team of dedicated engineers who believed in something seemingly impossible. MiMi Aung served as the project manager on the helicopter, which has now achieved nine ...
07.07.2021 Introducing Season Three Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity.
07.02.2021 This Week @NASA, July 2, 2021 A U.S. commercial spacecraft departs the space station, more supplies and hardware are delivered to the station, and a moniker for the Artemis I mission’s “Moonikin”.
07.02.2021 Gravity Assist: This Asteroid Is Metal, With Lindy Elkins-Tanton Scientists will soon have the opportunity to visit a unique object in the asteroid belt called Psyche, which may be the exposed metallic core of a planetary body that stopped growing before it became a big planet like Earth. Dr. ...
07.02.2021 Uncommon Origins Shawn Cvetezar, Laura Paulino, and Don Caluya, NASA interns representing NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center, and Johnson Space Center, respectively, reflect upon their non-traditional paths that led them to NASA and share the many areas and projects ...
06.30.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 63, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta discusses the NASA mission to near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
06.25.2021 This Week @NASA, June 25, 2021 Spacewalks Continue to Install New Station Solar Arrays and more ...
06.25.2021 Citizen Science on Station Sarah Smith, a NASA intern, interviews students who were recently selected to fly their experiments to the International Space Station as part of the program under NASA’s STEM on Station initiative called Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science, or SPOCS. ...
06.18.2021 Liftoff Live Dan Huot, public affairs officer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares his experiences working on the first episodes of Houston We Have a Podcast, his work at NASA, and broadcasting the first humans to launch from American soil since 2011. ...
06.18.2021 Gravity Assist: Let’s Talk About Climate Change, with Gavin Schmidt What’s the difference between climate and weather? How does NASA monitor changing sea levels, melting glaciers, and other effects of climate change? Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s acting senior climate advisor, explains how rising temperatures lead to many complex changes both in ...
06.18.2021 This Week @NASA, June 18, 2021 Spacewalk to Install New Station Solar Arrays and more ...
06.16.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dynamic power of laser communications technologies.
06.11.2021 This Week @NASA, June 11, 2021 Progress Preparing the Artemis I Moon Rocket and more ...
06.11.2021 Better Together Shaneequa Vereen, public affairs specialist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, speaks with NASA interns as they recount their journey with NASA, sharing their backgrounds and experiences they had before and during their time with the agency. HWHAP Episode 199.
06.11.2021 Gravity Assist: From Space Camp to Mission Control, with Tara Ruttley How do astronauts exercise on the International Space Station? How do they train underwater? Tara Ruttley, associate chief scientist for microgravity research at NASA Headquarters, has worked on a lot of fascinating projects to support the human spaceflight program.
06.04.2021 This Week @NASA, June 4, 2021 Discussing the State of NASA and more ...
06.04.2021 The International Space Station and Beyond NASA experts Robyn Gatens, Jennifer Fogarty, and Laura Shaw explore how the International Space Station has enabled scientific and technological advancement that has benefitted humanity on Earth and framed the future of space exploration to the Moon and then Mars. ...
06.04.2021 Gravity Assist: Before You Launch: Practice, Practice, Practice When future astronauts explore the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, or beyond, they’ll have big challenges communicating with Mission Control back on Earth.
06.02.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 61, Transforming Assessment of Unsteady Aerodynamics NASA's Nettie Roozeboom discusses a new state-of-the-art technique to measure unsteady aerodynamics using pressure-sensitive paint.
05.28.2021 Water Bears in Space Thomas Boothby, assistant professor for the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming, teaches us about tardigrades, more commonly known as water bears, that are headed up to the International Space Station for a scientific study to learn ...
05.28.2021 This Week @NASA, May 28, 2021 NASA Briefs President’s Fiscal Year 2022 Funding Request and more ...
05.21.2021 This Week @NASA, May 21, 2021 Barron Joins NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Mission and more ...
05.21.2021 The Astronaut Schedulers Alicia Robinson and Crystal Larsen, increment training integrators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, break down the intricate coordination needed to prepare astronauts for launch from the moment they are assigned to a mission. HWHAP Episode 196.
05.21.2021 Gravity Assist: Listening to the Universe, with Kim Arcand NASA spacecraft deliver stunning visual imagery of the cosmos, but we can also experience that data by turning it into sound.
05.19.2021 'The Invisible Network' Pod - Episode 17: Commercialization \| LunaNet NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA's LunaNet communications architecture allows industry to participate in Artemis.
05.19.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly Dragonfly Principal Investigator Zibi Turtle discusses NASA's planned rotorcraft-lander mission to Titan.
05.14.2021 This Week @NASA, May 14, 2021 OSIRIS-REx Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample and more ...
05.14.2021 Gravity Assist: Always an Astronaut, with Ken Bowersox In some ways, spaceflight changes you forever,” says Ken Bowersox. Since he was 7 years old, Ken knew he wanted to become an astronaut. In his astronaut career, he participated in many exciting missions, including an extended stay on the ...
05.14.2021 Trailblazing International Partnerships NASA’s International Space Station program manager Joel Montalbano gathers with leaders from partner space agencies during a panel to discuss the importance and evolution of the international partnership and collaboration that has enabled more than 20 years of continuous human ...
05.12.2021 'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 16: Commercialization \| Marketplace NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA is working with industry to nurture a space communications marketplace.
05.07.2021 Artemis Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, launch director for the Exploration Ground System program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, shares the highlights of preparing for the first Artemis mission and the first launch and test flight of the Space Launch System with the Orion ...
05.07.2021 This Week @NASA, May 7, 2021 Crew-1 Astronauts Safely Return to Earth and more ...
05.05.2021 'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 15: Commercialization \| Crew NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.
05.05.2021 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 59, Spacecraft Window Design NASA Spacecraft Window Design Expert Lynda Estes discusses the evolution of windows that give humans a unique view into space.

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NASACast Audio episodes:

This Week @NASA, July 30, 2021

Gravity Assist: Diving Into NASA History, with NASA Intern Felicia Ragucci

How to Be a Successful Intern

'The Invisible Network' Podcast - 2021 Interns

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 65, NASA Intern Experiences

Earth’s Expanding Oceans

This Week @NASA, July 23, 2021

Gravity Assist: Onward to Venus, with Lori Glaze

Go Starliner!

Interpreting Our Universe

This Week @NASA, July 16, 2021

Women in STEM

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 64, Space Communications and Navigation

Let’s Go Planet-Hunting!

This Week @NASA, July 9, 2021

The Best of Year 4

Gravity Assist: A Dream, a Team, a Chance to Fly on Mars, with MiMi Aung

Introducing Season Three

This Week @NASA, July 2, 2021

Gravity Assist: This Asteroid Is Metal, With Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Uncommon Origins

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 63, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

This Week @NASA, June 25, 2021

Citizen Science on Station

Liftoff Live

Gravity Assist: Let’s Talk About Climate Change, with Gavin Schmidt

This Week @NASA, June 18, 2021

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration

This Week @NASA, June 11, 2021

Better Together

Gravity Assist: From Space Camp to Mission Control, with Tara Ruttley

This Week @NASA, June 4, 2021

The International Space Station and Beyond

Gravity Assist: Before You Launch: Practice, Practice, Practice

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 61, Transforming Assessment of Unsteady Aerodynamics

Water Bears in Space

This Week @NASA, May 28, 2021

This Week @NASA, May 21, 2021

The Astronaut Schedulers

Gravity Assist: Listening to the Universe, with Kim Arcand

'The Invisible Network' Pod - Episode 17: Commercialization | LunaNet

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly

This Week @NASA, May 14, 2021

Gravity Assist: Always an Astronaut, with Ken Bowersox

Trailblazing International Partnerships

'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 16: Commercialization | Marketplace

Artemis Launch Director

This Week @NASA, May 7, 2021

'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 15: Commercialization | Crew

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 59, Spacecraft Window Design

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