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Welcome to the Rocket Ranch

Welcome to the Rocket Ranch, the official podcast of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Take a listen for a behind-the-scenes sneak peek into the inner workings of the world’s premiere spaceport.

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Season 1Episode 26Feb 4, 2021

Rocket Ranch - Episode 26: Perseverance Rover

After a 300 million mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance Rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip, landing on the red planet. If successful, it will embark on the most advanced mission ever sent here, to discover if life ever existed on Mars.

Season 1Episode 25Jan 26, 2021

Rocket Ranch - Episode 25: Lessons of Loss

On this episode of the Rocket Ranch Podcast, we remember Challenger, her crew and their survivors, and how we carry forward the lessons NASA learned with the director of the Apollo Challenger Columbia Lessons Learned Program.

Season 1Episode 24Oct 5, 2020

Rocket Ranch - Episode 24: Space Lullaby

Astronaut Chris Hadfield flew to space three times, and was the first Canadian to walk in space. His cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity that he recorded on the International Space Station has over 47 million views, and as you're about to hear, he's given a lot of thought to the future of space exploration, and what it can mean for all of us.

Season 1Episode 23Jul 28, 2020

Rocket Ranch - Episode 23: Mars 2020: In the Midst of a Pandemic

The NASA Kennedy Launch team has persevered through a global pandemic to get a Mars Rover named Perseverance to the launch pad on time. The cloud of doubt the virus cast over the Mars mission and how NASA overcame it, next on the Rocket Ranch.