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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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 ...
12.11.2020 The Science of Teams Team science experts Noshir Contractor, Suzanne Bell, and Leslie DeChurch discuss team composition research at NASA and the role teams play in human spaceflight and space exploration. HWHAP Episode 175.
12.09.2020 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 50, Futuristic Space Technologies NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Executive Jason Derleth discusses visionary concepts that could transform future space missions.
12.08.2020 Season 3, Episode 8: Fueled by Fire From fires in outer space to raging wildfires on Earth, fire experts Gary Ruff and Natasha Stavros reveal how fingers of flame reach out around our world.
12.05.2020 This Week @NASA, Dec. 5, 2020 Critical Cargo on the Next Space Station Resupply Mission, and more ...
12.04.2020 Sticking the Landing on Mars Alicia Dwyer-Cianciolo and Doug Trent, entry, descent, and landing experts at NASA, unfold the intricacies of accomplishing a successful landing for humans visiting the Red Planet on this eighth episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP Episode 174.
12.04.2020 Gravity Assist: Set Sail for Europa, with Bob Pappalardo NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will give us the most detailed look yet at Jupiter’s extraordinary moon Europa.
12.01.2020 Season 3, Episode 7: Storm Warning Get swept away as we fly into massive hurricanes, and hear how the rumblings of climate change will cause clouds to gather into ever more powerful storms.
11.27.2020 Students and Spacesuits NASA SUITS activity manager Brandon Hargis and technical lead Paromita Mitra talk about the opportunity for students and teachers to design and create spacesuit information displays in augmented reality environments. HWHAP Episode 173.
11.27.2020 This Week @NASA, Nov. 27, 2020 NASA Kennedy Teams “Making Ready” for Artemis I Launch and more ...
11.24.2020 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 49, NEEMO Case Study Deconstructed NASA’s Bill Todd and Joyce Abbey and retired Astronaut Nicole Stott discuss NEEMO and a new case study they developed about the unique undersea analog.
11.24.2020 Season 3, Episode 6: Air and Shield As we fly around with NASA pilots, we’ll explore Earth’s air space with scientists Annmarie Eldering and Armin Sorooshian -- from wispy clouds high above, to tiny particles that make up air pollution.
11.23.2020 Inside a Black Hole Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Black holes are some of the most extreme, bizarre and fascinating objects in the universe. Regina Caputo and Jeremy Schnittman describe what it might be like ...
11.21.2020 This Week @NASA, Nov. 21, 2020 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Journey to International Space Station and more ...
11.20.2020 Plants in Space Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.
11.17.2020 Season 3, Episode 5: Frozen in Time Bundle up! We’ll be diving into ice-covered waters with an upside-down robot, and exploring Greenland’s massive ice sheet with oceanographer Josh Willis.
11.16.2020 The Crawlers A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launchpad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
11.13.2020 This Week @NASA, Nov. 13, 2020 Astronauts Arrive at Launch Site for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Mission and more ...
11.13.2020 Gravity Assist: Mars Takes a Breath, with Jen Eigenbrode The Curiosity rover has been probing the secrets of Mars since its arrival in 2012. Its discoveries include chemical signatures that could be related to life – or, alternatively, to geological processes.
11.13.2020 Orion Today Howard Hu, Orion deputy program manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, gives an update on Orion, the spacecraft that will take the next generation of space explorers to the Moon and beyond. HWHAP Episode 171.
11.10.2020 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 48, Mars Landing Retropropulsion Simulation NASA's Michelle Munk, Ashley Korzun and Eric Nielsen discuss the impact of state-of-the-art computing on future NASA missions.
11.10.2020 Season 3, Episode 4: A World Shaped by Water Dive to the deepest point of the ocean with an astronaut, brave the high seas with an oceanographer, and meander through sparkling rivers with a hydrologist.
11.09.2020 Seasons of the Sun As Earth makes its annual trip around the Sun, we feel the impacts of its journey in the form of seasons. Our planet’s tilt in relation to the Sun determines what season we experience here on Earth. But, did you ...
11.06.2020 Live Like a Martian Sharmila Watkins, Jennifer Fogarty, and Serena Aunon-Chancellor, scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, share what it takes for humans to live on a multi-year journey to, on, and from Mars on this seventh episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP ...
11.06.2020 This Week @NASA, Nov. 6, 2020 20 Years of Humans Aboard the International Space Station and more ...
11.03.2020 Season Three, Episode 3: On the Surface Like waves of the ocean, our planet’s surface is in constant motion. In this episode, we’ll travel to tropical rainforests to dig into soils with an ecologist, and fly drones with an earthquake expert to spot shifts in the ground ...
11.02.2020 20 Continuous Years Joel Montalbano, the International Space Station program manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, commemorates 20 years of continuous human presence on the orbiting laboratory, highlighting the program’s milestones, its assembly, and the ground-breaking research. HWHAP Episode 169.
11.02.2020 From Space to Farm Farmers rely on the accuracy of a crucial NASA and USGS mission, Landsat, to make decisions about crops. Those decisions have far-reaching implications that can impact what you see on your dinner plate!
10.30.2020 This Week @ NASA, Oct. 30, 2020 NASA, European Space Agency Formalize Artemis Gateway Partnership and more ...
10.30.2020 Expedition 1 Bill Shepherd, former NASA astronaut and commander of Expedition 1, recounts the historic mission that started the International Space Station’s unbroken streak of continuous human presence in space. HWHAP Episode 168.
10.30.2020 Gravity Assist: The History of the Future, with Steven Dick Astronomer and historian Steven Dick tells us there are many approaches to consider and many questions we should ask ourselves to get ready, in case extraterrestrial life is found.
10.27.2020 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity International Space Station Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the complexity of the orbiting laboratory as NASA counts up to 20 years of continuous human presence in space.
10.27.2020 Season Three, Episode 2: Genesis Have you ever wanted to see the awesome spectacle of an erupting volcano? There’s no better guide for such an adventure than JPL volcanologist Rosaly Lopes.
10.26.2020 Our Cosmic Time Machine, The James Webb Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope will explore every phase of cosmic history: from the formation of the very first galaxies in the early universe, to our cosmic backyard of the Solar System. Webb is the largest space telescope NASA has ...
10.23.2020 This Week @ NASA, Oct. 23, 2020 OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid Bennu and more ...
10.23.2020 Crew-1: The Mission Anthony Vareha, the lead flight director at NASA's Johnson Space Center for NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission, details the first crew rotation flight on a U.S. commercial spacecraft. HWHAP Episode 167.
10.20.2020 Season Three, Episode 1: An Astronaut’s View of Earth You might think you know Earth, but astronaut’s views from outer space help us see our world in a whole new light.
10.19.2020 Asteroid Hunting NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will attempt a daring feat: to briefly reach out its mechanical arm and grab a sample from an asteroid’s surface. Dante Lauretta, Heather Enos, and Ron Mink introduce you to NASA’s asteroid hunter and what this sample ...
10.16.2020 This Week @ NASA, Oct. 16, 2020 New Crew Safely Aboard Space Station and more ...

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NASACast Audio episodes:

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

The Science of Teams

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 50, Futuristic Space Technologies

Season 3, Episode 8: Fueled by Fire

This Week @NASA, Dec. 5, 2020

Sticking the Landing on Mars

Gravity Assist: Set Sail for Europa, with Bob Pappalardo

Season 3, Episode 7: Storm Warning

Students and Spacesuits

This Week @NASA, Nov. 27, 2020

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 49, NEEMO Case Study Deconstructed

Season 3, Episode 6: Air and Shield

Inside a Black Hole

This Week @NASA, Nov. 21, 2020

Plants in Space

Season 3, Episode 5: Frozen in Time

The Crawlers

This Week @NASA, Nov. 13, 2020

Gravity Assist: Mars Takes a Breath, with Jen Eigenbrode

Orion Today

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 48, Mars Landing Retropropulsion Simulation

Season 3, Episode 4: A World Shaped by Water

Seasons of the Sun

Live Like a Martian

This Week @NASA, Nov. 6, 2020

Season Three, Episode 3: On the Surface

20 Continuous Years

From Space to Farm

This Week @ NASA, Oct. 30, 2020

Expedition 1

Gravity Assist: The History of the Future, with Steven Dick

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity

Season Three, Episode 2: Genesis

Our Cosmic Time Machine, The James Webb Space Telescope

This Week @ NASA, Oct. 23, 2020

Crew-1: The Mission

Season Three, Episode 1: An Astronaut’s View of Earth

Asteroid Hunting

This Week @ NASA, Oct. 16, 2020

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