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A sneak peek at the newest class of engineers from an Air Force and NASA collaboration

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and NASA are collaborating with eight American universities for the second year of the Mission Concept Program.

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A major milestone for developing a new spacesuit

Former NASA astronaut Danny Olivas tells me about Collins Aerospace’s project to build a new spacesuit.

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How well does the U.S. work with its allies when it comes to space?

I speak with Bruce McClintock, Senior Policy Researcher and lead of RAND’s Space Enterprise Initiative, about how well the U.S. is working with it’s allies.

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NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program lead, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, answered questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

NASA makes grant awards in program to increase diversity in the STEM fields and its workforce

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The Space Hour’s Eric White speaks with Padi Boyd, director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Bridge Program.

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A deep look at the commercial space industry from both the public and private sector, hosted by Eric White.

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