Dr. Tom Barclay is a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He spends his days studying stars and planets and how they formed.
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Check out the Kennedy Space Center Mars rover concept vehicle and hear from Astronaut Jon McBride
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How can you safely view the August 21 solar eclipse? What is a solar eclipse? Where can you see this upcoming eclipse?
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Jeffrey Kluger, author of “Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon” and “Time” magazine editor talks about the significance of Apollo 8
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Astronaut Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She eventually sequenced over 2 billion base pairs of DNA during a series of experiments to analyze sequencing in microgravity.
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Former astronaut and recent administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Dr. Kathryn Sullivan shared the importance of satellite technologies in looking at Earth.
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Jeff Williams spent 534 days in space. Hear him talk about his missions, his favorite places to photograph from orbit, and what it is like to be away from family for so long.
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NASA Astronaut Victor Glover speaks at the National Air and Space Museum for African American Pioneers Family Day in 2017.
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Join us as we go with the team of the E/V Nautilus as they explore the underwater crash site of the USS Macon, a rigid airship that crashed off the California coast on February 12, 1935.
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Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission, shows the exciting images and science results yielded from the New Horizons mission as the spacecraft flew through the Pluto system
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