For any crew returning to Earth from space, the journey home includes a carefully choreographed recovery effort to bring them safely back on dry land after splashing down in the ocean. Christine St. Germain, NASA recovery director for the Commercial Crew Program, tells us about this critical phase of flight. Listen to NASA's "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast: https://lnkd.in/eSe7PW4z
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Meet Dragonfly, a rotorcraft the size of a small car designed to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Rich in organic compounds, Titan offers a rare window into the kinds of chemical conditions that may have existed on Earth long before life began. Dr. Zibi Turtle, Dragonfly's principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, tells us more in this episode of our "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast. Tune in: https://lnkd.in/grt3HH9C
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From her experience working with the Commercial Crew Program, which sends astronauts to the International Space Station aboard commercial spacecraft, to the Artemis missions to the Moon, aerospace engineer Jennifer Lu shares how working with a variety of teams — including as a circus performer before coming to NASA — has helped her see the bigger picture. Listen to our latest "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast episode. Transcript included: https://lnkd.in/eZd7E6SH
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Currently, flying faster than the speed of sound over land is prohibited for commercial flights because it creates disruptive sonic booms. NASA's experimental X-59 plane will research how to turn those booms into "sonic thumps," which are about as loud as a slamming car door. In our first "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast episode of the year, senior research pilot Nils Larson explains how the X-59 could usher in the next era of commercial supersonic flight. Listen: https://lnkd.in/eFfWumkU
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There’s a building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland that looks ordinary from the outside, but inside, it holds one of the most unique laboratories in the world: the Zero Gravity Research Facility. It’s essentially a drop tower that extends 510 feet below the ground, and it’s the largest of its kind in the world. Here, researchers can recreate brief moments of near-weightlessness. In this episode of our "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast, we’re exploring how the zero-g facility has supported decades of breakthrough research, from fluid physics to spacecraft systems, and why simulating microgravity on the ground is critical to advancing human space exploration. Listen: https://lnkd.in/eexwhjjM
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From black holes to star clusters, scientists are turning space data into sound with a process called sonification. Dr. Kimberly Arcand, visualization scientist with the Center for Astrophysics, joins us to explore how data sonification lets more people experience the cosmos and give researchers a new way to interpret science one note at a time. Listen to our latest episode of our "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast: https://lnkd.in/dTrBcG4g
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StarBurst, a satellite the size of a washing machine, is set to launch in 2027 to detect the initial blast of gamma-rays, the most powerful bursts of energy in the universe. These huge explosions can occur when dense neutron stars collide, forging metals like gold and platinum. These metals are some of the building blocks of planets — like Earth. Dr. Dan Kocevski, principal investigator of the StarBurst mission, talks about the spacecraft's science, engineering, and lessons learned in our newest episode of our "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast. https://lnkd.in/emcqdE3T