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Encore: NASA’s Jim Green – Revealing the Secrets of Mars

July 31, 2023 Tim Episodes, History, Life & Style, People, Science, Society 0:49:56 Comments Off on Encore: NASA’s Jim Green – Revealing the Secrets of Mars

NASA’s Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins Tim to talk about big plans for the red planet, Mars. Jim has had a long and distinguished career on some of the agency’s major research projects and missions that have explored the rest of our solar system, from Mars to Pluto. In this episode, Jim gets into detail on what we have learned, can learn and will learn from Earth’s next door neighbor. He uncovers some of the secrets of Mars. This episode was originally released on September 27, 2021.

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Megan Bruck Syal: Incoming! Can We Really Intercept Asteroids?

January 31, 2022 Tim Crisis Communications, Episodes, History, Life & Style, People, Politics, Science, Society 00:55:58 Comments Off on Megan Bruck Syal: Incoming! Can We Really Intercept Asteroids?

Dr. Megan Bruck Syal joins Tim to talk about something that until now was just the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood movies…defending Earth against deadly collisions with asteroids and comets. Megan is a planetary defense investigator at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She and a large team of scientific experts are actively working to establish ways to prevent an asteroid from making impact with earth and threatening life as we know it.

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Revealing the Secrets of Mars

September 27, 2021 Tim Episodes, History, Life & Style, People, Science, Society, Uncategorized 00:49:33 Comments Off on Revealing the Secrets of Mars

NASA’s Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins Tim to talk about big plans for the red planet, Mars. Jim has had a long and distinguished career on some of the agency’s major research projects and missions that have explored the rest of our solar system, from Mars to Pluto. In this episode, Jim gets into detail on what we have learned, can learn and will learn from Earth’s nextdoor neighbor. He uncovers some of the secrets of Mars.

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Apollo 11: Defying All Odds

March 18, 2019 Tim Episodes, History, Life & Style, Media, People, Public Relations 00:57:59 Comments Off on Apollo 11: Defying All Odds

Space author, journalist and historian Rod Pyle joins Tim to tell the story you knew and the ones you didn’t about the pinnacle accomplishment for the NASA space program, when man first stepped foot on the Moon thanks to Apollo 11, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019.

 

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NASA’s Challenger Disaster

February 4, 2019 Tim Crisis Communications, Episodes, History, Media, People, Politics, Public Relations 00:36:03 Comments Off on NASA’s Challenger Disaster

Fellow crisis communicator Jeff Worden joins Tim to talk about one of the worst crises NASA ever faced when the space shuttle Challenger came apart in midair shortly after launch in front of millions.


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