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22 Jun 2018, 20:16 GMT

A conversation with Donovan Mathias and Eric Stern. Eric is a research scientist here at Ames who supports the agency’s Planetary Defense initiative, and Donovan is an aerospace engineer in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division.

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Donovan Mathias and Eric Stern Talk About Asteroid Threats
9 Jun 2018, 00:31 GMT

A conversation with Alan Rhodes, instrument development manager for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Harvey Moseley a senior astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Alan Rhodes and Harvey Moseley Talk About Creating SOFIA’s Instruments
25 May 2018, 21:49 GMT

A conversation with Lika Guhathakurta, lead program scientist for new initiatives in the Exploration Technology Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Ryan McGranaghan, postdoctoral researcher from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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Lika Guhathakurta and Ryan McGranaghan Talk About Space Weather
19 May 2018, 01:19 GMT

A conversation with Jon Jenkins, the science lead for the Science Processing Operations Center at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. At the SPOC, the raw data from NASA’s newly launched planet hunter, TESS, is prepared for scientists to analyze.

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Jon Jenkins Talks About Kepler and TESS Data, from Pixels to Planets
27 Apr 2018, 21:38 GMT

A conversation with Robin Beck, an engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley who develops, designs and tests heat shield materials.

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Robin Beck Talks About Designing Heat Shields to Protect Spacecraft
23 Apr 2018, 21:00 GMT

A conversation with Jim Brass, Bruce Coffland from NASA and Susan Benjamin USGS director of the Western Geographic Science Center. They discuss the shared history between NASA and the USGS in remote sensing.

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NASA and the USGS, a Shared History in Remote Sensing
13 Apr 2018, 18:52 GMT

A conversation with Doug Caldwell, instrument scientist for the Kepler Space Telescope, and who’s now working on NASA’s next planet-hunting mission— the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS.

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Doug Caldwell Talks About the Data Pipeline for the TESS Mission
5 Apr 2018, 21:37 GMT

A rerun of a conversation with Kimberly Ennico Smith, project scientist for SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

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Kimberly Ennico Smith Talks About Pluto and Studying Space With SOFIA
23 Mar 2018, 22:29 GMT

A conversation with Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist, and Geert Barentsen, director of the mission's guest observer office, talking about how NASA’s first planet-hunting mission has contributed so much to the field of astronomy.

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Jessie Dotson and Geert Barentsen, Kepler’s Contributions to Astronomy
10 Mar 2018, 01:59 GMT

A conversation with and Marianne Sowa, branch chief of the Space Biosciences Research branch at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Jack Miller, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, about radiation science using GeneLab.

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Marianne Sowa and Jack Miller Discuss Radiation Science Using GeneLab
1 Mar 2018, 22:31 GMT

A conversation with Chris McKay from NASA and Ronald Oremland from the U.S. Geological Survey about ocean worlds and the search for life. This is the third episode of a mini-series about NASA and USGS collaboration.

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Chris McKay and Ron Oremland, Ocean Worlds and the Search for Life
23 Feb 2018, 21:52 GMT

A conversation with Chad Frost from NASA and Susan De La Cruz from the USGS. This is the second episode of a mini-series about NASA and USGS collaboration. In this episode they focus on tracking wildlife and what that information can tell us about the social networks between animals.

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Chad Frost and Susan De La Cruz on the “Social Networks” of Wildlife