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Season 5, Episode 32: Finale: Thanks for All the Gravity Assists

Season 5 · Episode 32

Friday, August 12, 2022 • Duration 24:08

On the Gravity Assist podcast we have interviewed dozens of scientists, engineers, and others dedicated to the mission of NASA space exploration. After five years, the show is coming to a close. Here are some final thoughts and episode highlights from the podcast team.

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Season 5, Episode 31: Meet a Webb Scientist Who Looks Back in Time

Season 5 · Episode 31

Friday, July 29, 2022 • Duration 27:58

The James Webb Space Telescope awed the world on July 12 with its first images and data. And it’s just getting started with its exploration of the cosmos. Dr. John Mather, the observatory’s senior project scientist, has been working toward this milestone for more than 25 years.

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Season 5, Episode 22: Using Webb to Trace Galactic Histories

Season 5 · Episode 22

Friday, March 4, 2022 • Duration 22:09

The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Dec. 25, will allow us to see the farthest galaxies and better understand the origins of the Milky Way. Aaron Yung at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is preparing for these historic observations by simulating what Webb will see in the early universe.

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Season 5, Episode 21: In Case of Space Station Emergency

Season 5 · Episode 21

Friday, February 18, 2022 • Duration 24:21

In space, we have to expect the unexpected. Sunny Panjwani of NASA’s Johnson Space Center shares how he got thrown into an emergency situation on his first day as a flight controller. His team makes sure that astronauts have a safe environment on board the International Space Station.

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Gravity Assist: Meet NASA’s New Chief Scientist, Kate Calvin

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Friday, January 28, 2022 • Duration 19:35

Climate change is one of the most important issues facing our planet, and NASA has lots of space missions and programs in the works to monitor and understand its drivers and effects. Kate Calvin, NASA’s new chief scientist, is also the agency’s senior climate advisor. In this episode, Kate previews  upcoming Earth science missions and discusses cut

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Season 5, Episode 19: A New Set of X-Ray Eyes is Launching

Season 5 · Episode 19

Friday, December 3, 2021 • Duration 22:51

NASA is about to launch a new spacecraft to look at the universe in X-ray light. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, IXPE, will look at extreme objects such as black holes, neutron stars, and supernovae, asking fundamental questions about how high-energy light gets produced.

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Season 5, Episode 18: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot

Season 5 · Episode 18

Friday, November 19, 2021 • Duration 25:46

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission, or DART, will deliberately impact a small asteroid called Dimorphos to deflect its orbit around a bigger object, Didymos. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has the details.

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Season 5, Episode 17: Solar Power for the Moon

Season 5 · Episode 17

Friday, October 29, 2021 • Duration 19:47

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program, engineers are working on technologies that will give these explorers power – solar power, that is. In space, the harsh radiation and huge temperature changes make for a challenging environment.

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Season 5, Episode 16:Meet a Space Weather Scientist

Season 5 · Episode 16

Friday, October 22, 2021 • Duration 25:52

Yaireska Collado-Vega leads a team at NASA’s Goddard Spacecraft Center that is studying the solar weather environment so that robots and people exploring space can be protected. In this episode of Gravity Assist, she describes the excitement and challenges of understanding space weather, and how she got to be a NASA scientist.

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Season 5, Episode 15: Lucy and the Space Fossils, with Hal Levison

Season 5 · Episode 15

Friday, October 8, 2021 • Duration 26:33

To get a more complete understanding of the full history of our solar system, NASA is sending a spacecraft called Lucy to investigate the Trojans, mysterious small objects that share an orbit of the Sun with Jupiter. Principal investigator Hal Levison of the Southwest Research Institute

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