Episodes

  • Go Europa Clipper! Interview with Todd Barber
    Dec 6 2024

    Learn all about NADS's newest flagship mission.....EUROPA CLIPPER!!!! Our good friend Todd Barber is make to tell us all the intricate parts of this modern marvel of spacecrafts that will be exploring the Galilean Moon EUROPA!!! A water-world in the Jovian System. Check out the links as well so you can see and play with the Clipper Vault Plate!!!

    https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

    https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

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    58 mins
  • Cosmic Radio Interview with Richard Rieber-Robotics Systems Engineer from JPL
    Nov 11 2024

    Join us for an interview with Richard Rieber, Robotic Systems Engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Richard takes us through the various robotics created at JPL and tells us how those creations were used on NASA missions and future how future robotics are being created for future NASA missions.

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    28 mins
  • Cosmic Radio Interview with Lindy Elkins-Tanton and The Psyche Mission
    Nov 11 2024

    Cosmic Radio host Elizabeth Garcia interviews Principal Investigator of NASA's Psyche Mission, Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Join us as we talk about an incredible space journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Dr. Elkins-Tanton tells us all about the Psyche asteroid, why she believes that it may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet and how she is going to test her hypothesis with this amazing solar-electric spacecraft.
    Psyche offers a unique window into the violent history of collisions and accretion that created terrestrial planets!

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    30 mins
  • Cosmic Radio: Interview with Dr. Marc Rayman from JPL
    Nov 1 2024

    Dr. Marc Rayman is back! This time he's telling us the story of the NASA Dawn Mission and all its discoveries, technology and stressful issues. Dr. Rayman also gives us mind-blowing insights into new ideas and future concepts of interstellar space travel after Ukiah igh School Senior, Francisco Castaneda Rodriguez Jr. asks Dr. Rayman an intriguing question.

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    59 mins
  • Cosmic Radio interview Stephanie Derammelaere and David Cranford from the Robert Ferguson Observatory
    Oct 24 2024

    Robert Ferguson Observatory located in the Valley of the Moon, and within the Sugarloaf State Park (just outside of Santa Rosa, California) is a hidden jewel in Sonoma County. Listen to this interview with staff from the observatory and discovery this unique and well run center and find out all about its year-round events.
    Guest speakers:
    Stephanie Derammelaere- Executive Director
    David Cranford- Docent Astronomer

    Once you hear about RFO it won't be "hidden" anymore!

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    30 mins
  • Cosmic Radio interview with Tony Alcocer-Model Rocket mentor
    Oct 24 2024

    Tony Alcocer loves excitement!
    He was a Santa Rosa Fire Engineer then retired and became a model rocket mentor who works with NASA and Sonoma State University. He is a member of the National Association of Rocketry and Tripoli Rocketry Association.
    In this interview he tells us how he teaches kids and university professors how to build and launch rockets.

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    29 mins
  • Cosmic Radio interviews Dr. Lynn R. Cominsky from Sonoma State University and her EdEon STEM Learning Center
    Oct 22 2024

    A hidden jewel in Northern California-the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University!

    Dr. Lynn Cominsky is an award-winning Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University.
    Dr. Cominsky is the founder and director of SSU's EdEon STEM Learning, which develops educational materials for NASA, NSF and the US Department of Education and NASA's Neurodiversity Network (N3) who's goal is to provide a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum.
    Learn all about this cutting edge curriculum and the woman that put it all together to help students nationwide.

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    28 mins
  • Cosmic Radio with Part 2 interview with Dr. Laura Peticolas from Sonoma State University
    Oct 22 2024

    Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Laura Peticolas from Sonoma State University.
    Dr. Peticolas teaches us about solar cycles, sun behavior and how all the the sun's behavior can affect the earth.
    She makes learning about our universe fun and exciting.

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    58 mins