Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe
Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure each episode — all you need is your curiosity.
Episode Description:
In season five, join us as we fight wildfires, defend the Earth from asteroids, and explore the invisible world of gravitational waves! New episodes every Tuesday.
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[Song: Future Mission by Zone Music Ltd]
HOST PADI BOYD: Hi Curious Universe listeners! We are back for a new season exploring our wild and wonderful universe. Join us each week as we protect a spacecraft from a dangerous atmosphere, defend our planet from asteroids, fight wildfires, and investigate ripples in spacetime.
HOST PADI BOYD: It’s gonna be a wild ride!
Matt Garrison
Most of the things we do here, we’re never going to get to see again. We’ve got one hour of descent time and one shot to do this. There’s no going back and trying again.
Judy Racusin
We want to know how the universe works… how stars, and galaxies, and planets evolve over time. It tells us something fundamental about where we came from, about the history of our galaxy, our solar system…
Josh Johnston
It’s brutal work in some ways, right? Because you’re hauling heavy packs, and you’re just doing runs through the forest like that. You’re always soaking wet from the hose, and the fire is so hot and dry, that you’re always dry at the same time.
[[Helicopter Whirring Overhead]]
Miles Hatfield
The weather was terrible. So it would be like, nothing… looks like we’re getting close… get down to two minutes and account. And then a huge rainstorm would open up.
[[Rain Pouring]]
Paromita Mitra
There’s all these design elements to it. And seeing that in front of me was just awe-inspiring. It felt so right.
Amy Ross
We know the crew members, we work with the crew members, we want them to come home and we want them to come home alive. That helps keep that thought in our heads. We aren’t designing clothes. We are designing a life support system.
Tom Statler
One of the things we’ve come to understand so far about asteroids is that there’s no such thing as just another asteroid. Every asteroid is telling us a different part of the story of our solar system.
Judy Racusin
And you won’t see those things if you don’t look.