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NASA in Silicon Valley

A weekly audio podcast from NASA’s Ames Research Center featuring an in-depth look at the various researchers, scientists, engineers, and all around cool people who work at NASA to push the boundaries of innovation.

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Season 1Apr 13, 2018

Doug Caldwell Talks About the Data Pipeline for the TESS Mission

A conversation with Doug Caldwell, instrument scientist for the Kepler Space Telescope, and who’s now working on NASA’s next planet-hunting mission— the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS.

Season 1Apr 5, 2018

Kimberly Ennico Smith Talks About Pluto and Studying Space With SOFIA

A rerun of a conversation with Kimberly Ennico Smith, project scientist for SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Season 1Mar 30, 2018

Sharmila Bhattacharya on Studying How Biology Changes in Space

A conversation with Sharmila Bhattacharya, senior scientist in the Space Biosciences Research branch at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Season 1Mar 23, 2018

Jessie Dotson and Geert Barentsen, Kepler’s Contributions to Astronomy

A conversation with Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist, and Geert Barentsen, director of the mission's guest observer office, talking about how NASA’s first planet-hunting mission has contributed so much to the field of astronomy.