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90. Down to Earth SPACEMAN Mike Massimino shares his journey as a NASA astronaut

May 7, 2019 Chuck 0:16:39 0 Comments

Mike Massimino served as a NASA astronaut from 1996 to 2014 and is a veteran of two space flights to the Hubble Space Telescope. He became the first person to tweet from space and played himself in several episodes of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. A graduate of Columbia University & MIT, Mike…

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88. DR THOMAS ZURBUCHEN: Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate

April 23, 2019 Chuck 0:22:58 0 Comments

In this interview we go onsite at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). Thomas is an award-winning astrophysicist, with honors including receiving the National Science and Technology Council Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2004…

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87. SPACEX Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A – Behind the Scenes

April 16, 2019 Chuck 0:15:46 0 Comments

Go behind the scenes with us as we set up cameras at the launch pad, met some incredible people and witnessed the first commercial launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy, complete with the incredible landing of the boosters at Cape Canaveral. Featured in this episode are interviews with Everyday Astronaut Tim Dodd, rocket launch photographer Erik…

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Arabsat 6A to launch Wednesday, April 10th

April 9, 2019 Chuck 0 Comments

SpaceX is gearing up for its 2nd Falcon Heavy launch, scheduled for 6:35 pm EDT Wednesday, April 10, 2019. As you may remember the first Falcon Heavy was launched last year on February 6, 2018 with the infamous “Starman” and Elon Musk’s own Tesla. Two of the Falcon Heavy’s boosters landed nearly simultaneously at Cape…

85. MOON to MARS – Behind the Scenes at NASA Glenn Research Center

April 2, 2019 Chuck 0:17:27 0 Comments

America is going back to the Moon! Go behind the scenes of the NASA Glenn Research Center as we go onsite to speak with the incredible team members and discover some of the cutting-edge technology that will help send American’s back to the Moon and then to Mars and beyond. In this episode we recap…

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 by Chuck Fields

82. SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 – Behind the Scenes

March 10, 2019 Chuck 0:17:53 0 Comments

In this episode we go behind the scenes on the press site at Kennedy Space Center for a look at the incredible milestones of SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1, and what it means for the future of commercial crew spaceflight. In this journey I share footage of the press conferences, launch activities, and how I was…

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80. The New Vulcan Centaur Rocket – Mark Peller, ULA Program Manager for Major Development

February 26, 2019 Chuck 0:16:49 0 Comments

Mark Peller is the program manager for major development at United Launch Alliance (ULA), and in this position is responsible for development of Vulcan. Mark is with us today to discuss ULA’s future launch system, the Vulcan Centaur rocket. Vulcan is ULA’s future launch system that builds upon ULA’s extensive Atlas and Delta heritage to…

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69. Apollo 8 – 50 Years Later – What really happened during the Space Race to the Moon

December 21, 2018 Chuck 0:28:37 0 Comments

In this episode Dr. James Rice, the senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, discusses Apollo 8—the first manned mission to the Moon, which occurred 50 years ago in December 1968. Dr. Rice talks about what led up to this historic mission, and how close the space race really was with several lesser-known facts about…

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52. Behind the Sun with Dr. Nicky Fox, Heliophysics Division Director at NASA HQ

September 11, 2018 Chuck 0:23:58 0 Comments

Dr. Nicky Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director at NASA Headquarters. She earned her PhD in Space Physics from the Imperial College of Science in London and has worked for both APL and NASA over her 20 year career. She’s worked on such projects as the NASA Polar spacecraft and the International Solar Terrestrial Physics…

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49. ECOSTRESS – Monitoring Plants from Space – Dr. Joshua Fisher, JPL

August 21, 2018 Chuck 0:22:06 0 Comments

Dr. Joshua Fisher is the Science Lead for the ECOSTRESS Mission, a mission designed to study the Earth’s climate. Dr. Fisher is a Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I was fortunate to first meet Dr. Fisher recently at Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of ECOSTRESS aboard the SpaceX CRS-15 resupply mission to the…

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90. Down to Earth SPACEMAN Mike Massimino shares his journey as a NASA astronaut

88. DR THOMAS ZURBUCHEN: Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate

87. SPACEX Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A – Behind the Scenes

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Arabsat 6A to launch Wednesday, April 10th

85. MOON to MARS – Behind the Scenes at NASA Glenn Research Center

82. SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 – Behind the Scenes

80. The New Vulcan Centaur Rocket – Mark Peller, ULA Program Manager for Major Development

69. Apollo 8 – 50 Years Later – What really happened during the Space Race to the Moon

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