Podcasts about Mars Pathfinder

WEEK FOR MARS DREAMING AT STARBASE: 2/8: Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age – by  Eric Berger  (Author) 1957 https://www.amazon.com/Reentry-SpaceX-Reusable-Rockets-Launched/dp/1637745273/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= One company dominates the modern space industry: SpaceX, founded by controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2002, now sending more payloads into orbit than the rest of the world combined. But Musk didn't do it alone—the saga of SpaceX is the story of a diverse cadre of true believers in the limitless potential of space travel. 1997 MARS PATHFINDER

MUSK WANTS ONE MILLION HUMANS ON MARS TO SUSTAIN A COLONY.  2/4: For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet Hardcover – May 18, 2023 by  Matthew Shindell  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mars-Human-History-Planet/dp/0226821897/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Due to its vivid color and visibility, its geologic kinship with Earth, and its potential as our best hope for settlement, Mars embodies everything that inspires us about space and exploration. For the Love of Mars surveys the red planet's place in the human imagination, beginning with ancient astrologers and skywatchers and ending in our present moment of exploration and virtual engagement.   National Air and Space Museum curator Matthew Shindell describes how historical figures across eras and around the world have made sense of this mysterious planet. We meet Mayan astrologer priests who incorporated Mars into seasonal calendars and religious ceremonies; Babylonian astrologers who discerned bad omens; figures of the Scientific Revolution who struggled to comprehend it as a world; Victorian astronomers who sought signs of intelligent life; and twentieth- and twenty-first-century scientists who have established a technological presence on its surface. Along the way, we encounter writers and artists from each of these periods who take readers and viewers along on imagined journeys to Mars.   By focusing on the diverse human stories behind the telescopes and behind the robots we know and love, Shindell shows how Mars exploration has evolved in ways that have also expanded knowledge about other facets of the universe. Captained by an engaging and erudite expert, For the Love of Marsis a captivating voyage through time and space for anyone curious about Curiosity and the red planet. 1997 MARS PATHFINDER

PREVIEW NEW WEEK: Excerpt from conversation with astronomer Dr. Ken Croswell from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the preliminary observations of the NASA InSight probe to study marsquakes -- the good and bad news.  More detail in the new week. 1999 Mars Pathfinder

#MARS: Ingenuity broke off one blade. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-broke-off-one-blade-entirely/ 1997 Mars Pathfinder

#MARS: The surface rocks of Mars like tree rings of the epochal ages. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/mars-flaky-rocks/ 1997 Mars Pathfinder

WHY THE NEED FOR PLANETARY DEFENSE:: 2/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by  Greg Brennecka  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Rocks-Space-Culture-Donkey/dp/0063078929/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth's early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet. While meteorites have provided the raw materials for life to thrive, they have radically devastated life as well, most famously killing off the dinosaurs and paving the way for humans to evolve to where we are today. As noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka explains, meteorites did not just set us on the path to becoming human, they helped direct the development of human culture. Meteorites have influenced humanity since the start of civilization. Over the centuries, meteorite falls and other cosmic cinema have started (and stopped) wars, terrified millions, and inspired religions throughout the world.   1999 MARS PATHFINDER

Mars Pathfinder - Richard C. Hoagland

We all know that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and flies the premiere machines of space exploration, but just who designs and prepares them? It takes a team, but unique leadership must be at the top, and Rob Manning, JPL's Chief Engineer, has long been such a leader. From his earliest work on Voyager through engineering every set of wheels on Mars to overseeing engineering for all of JPL, Rob's story reads like an engineer's dream. Come share that dream with us as we talk to Rob, the Carroll Shelby of Mars. Rod and Tariq kick off the show by discussing the latest space news, including OSIRIS-REx's return with asteroid Bennu sample, NASA website changes, and an impending government shutdown Special guest Rob Manning shares his unbelievable career path from JPL technician to Chief Mars Engineer Manning recalls the scrappy early days of Mars Pathfinder and the "magical" atmosphere of autonomy and innovation Building Pathfinder on a shoestring $150 million budget meant improvising with consumer hardware and "ad hoc engineering" Pathfinder team was isolated and given the freedom to innovate, but faced intense scrutiny from legendary NASA experts Manning details how Pathfinder pioneered airbag landing and was the first Mars landing in over 20 years Pathfinder was initially designed for one-month lifespan but kept going for over three months - a shocking engineering achievement Manning emphasizes the importance of hands-on engineering experience versus today's digital abstraction They discuss how Pathfinder's philosophy and margins set the stage for Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity greatly outlasting expectations Manning previews upcoming Europa Clipper, Psyche asteroid missions, and more Manning shares principles for building robust systems: embrace complexity, test thoroughly, plan for the unknown Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Rob Manning Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

We all know that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and flies the premiere machines of space exploration, but just who designs and prepares them? It takes a team, but unique leadership must be at the top, and Rob Manning, JPL's Chief Engineer, has long been such a leader. From his earliest work on Voyager through engineering every set of wheels on Mars to overseeing engineering for all of JPL, Rob's story reads like an engineer's dream. Come share that dream with us as we talk to Rob, the Carroll Shelby of Mars. Rod and Tariq kick off the show by discussing the latest space news, including OSIRIS-REx's return with asteroid Bennu sample, NASA website changes, and an impending government shutdown Special guest Rob Manning shares his unbelievable career path from JPL technician to Chief Mars Engineer Manning recalls the scrappy early days of Mars Pathfinder and the "magical" atmosphere of autonomy and innovation Building Pathfinder on a shoestring $150 million budget meant improvising with consumer hardware and "ad hoc engineering" Pathfinder team was isolated and given the freedom to innovate, but faced intense scrutiny from legendary NASA experts Manning details how Pathfinder pioneered airbag landing and was the first Mars landing in over 20 years Pathfinder was initially designed for one-month lifespan but kept going for over three months - a shocking engineering achievement Manning emphasizes the importance of hands-on engineering experience versus today's digital abstraction They discuss how Pathfinder's philosophy and margins set the stage for Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity greatly outlasting expectations Manning previews upcoming Europa Clipper, Psyche asteroid missions, and more Manning shares principles for building robust systems: embrace complexity, test thoroughly, plan for the unknown Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Rob Manning Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

We all know that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and flies the premiere machines of space exploration, but just who designs and prepares them? It takes a team, but unique leadership must be at the top, and Rob Manning, JPL's Chief Engineer, has long been such a leader. From his earliest work on Voyager through engineering every set of wheels on Mars to overseeing engineering for all of JPL, Rob's story reads like an engineer's dream. Come share that dream with us as we talk to Rob, the Carroll Shelby of Mars. Rod and Tariq kick off the show by discussing the latest space news, including OSIRIS-REx's return with asteroid Bennu sample, NASA website changes, and an impending government shutdown Special guest Rob Manning shares his unbelievable career path from JPL technician to Chief Mars Engineer Manning recalls the scrappy early days of Mars Pathfinder and the "magical" atmosphere of autonomy and innovation Building Pathfinder on a shoestring $150 million budget meant improvising with consumer hardware and "ad hoc engineering" Pathfinder team was isolated and given the freedom to innovate, but faced intense scrutiny from legendary NASA experts Manning details how Pathfinder pioneered airbag landing and was the first Mars landing in over 20 years Pathfinder was initially designed for one-month lifespan but kept going for over three months - a shocking engineering achievement Manning emphasizes the importance of hands-on engineering experience versus today's digital abstraction They discuss how Pathfinder's philosophy and margins set the stage for Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity greatly outlasting expectations Manning previews upcoming Europa Clipper, Psyche asteroid missions, and more Manning shares principles for building robust systems: embrace complexity, test thoroughly, plan for the unknown Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Rob Manning Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

NASA's Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins Tim to talk about big plans for the red planet, Mars. Jim has had a long and distinguished career on some of the agency's major research projects and missions that have explored the rest of our solar system, from Mars to Pluto. In this episode, Jim gets into detail on what we have learned, can learn and will learn from Earth's next door neighbor. He uncovers some of the secrets of Mars. This episode was originally released on September 27, 2021. https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/shapingopinion/Encore_-_Life_on_Mars.mp3 Next to the Moon and the Sun, the most captivating celestial bodies in our night sky for mankind over thousands and thousands of years has been Mars. The red planet. The fourth rock from the sun. So, it made sense when we started to make plans for space travel, Mars would figure prominently into those plans. As far back as the inception of both the Soviet and American space programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, space scientist started making plans to explore Mars. By July 4, 1997, NASA was able to land a spacecraft on Mars.  The Mars Pathfinder was launched on December 4th 1996. Six months later, it landed on Mars. The unit featured the first-ever robotic rover that sent an unprecedented amount of data on the planet back to scientists at NASA. After that, there were other missions, which included Mars orbiters, landers, and excavators.  And the United States hasn't been the only country working to explore the planet. The Soviet Union, then Russia, then China, then India, and even the United Arab Emirates have launched missions to Mars. Each time, we learn something new and something significant about Mars. But in the end, there is one question that continues to drive mankind's quest to visit Mars. Is there life on that planet, and if so, what does it look like? Jim Green has worked to find the answers to this and many other questions throughout his career as a scientist at NASA. Links NASA's Mars Exploration Program James L. Green, NASA Why We Explore Mars, National Geographic Nicolaus Copernicus, History.com Jezero Crater – Mars, NASA About this Episode's Guest Dr. Jim Green Dr. Jim Green Photo courtesy of NASA NASA's Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green received his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Iowa in 1979 and began working in the Magnetospheric Physics Branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1980. At Marshall, Dr. Green developed and managed the Space Physics Analysis Network, which provided many scientists, all over the world, with rapid access to data, other scientists, and specific NASA computer and information resources. In addition, Dr. Green was a safety diver in the Neutral Buoyancy tank making over 150 dives until he left MSFC in 1985. From 1985 to 1992 he was the Head of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The NSSDC is NASA's largest space science data archive. In 1992 he became the Chief of the Space Science Data Operations Office until 2005 when he became the Chief of the Science Proposal Support Office. While at GSFC, Dr. Green was also co-investigator and the Deputy Project Scientist on the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) mission. From 1992 to 2000 he was also the Deputy Project Scientist for Mission Operations and Data Analysis for the Global Geospace Science Missions WIND and POLAR. He has written over 110 scientific articles in referred journals involving various aspects of the Earth's and Jupiter's magnetospheres and over 50 technical articles on various aspects of data systems and computer networks. From August 2006 to April 2018 Dr. Green was the Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. Under his leadership several missions have been successfully executed, including the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto,

𝗠𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁í𝗻, jefe de ingeniería para el guiado, navegación y control de sistemas en el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro 𝗝𝗣𝗟 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔, conversa con el físico y divulgador científico 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗼𝗷𝗼 sobre su trayectoria y su participación en las cinco misiones robóticas que llegaron a la superficie marciana: Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity y Perseverance. De pequeño su padre lo inspiró a aprender sobre la navegación con estrellas y, juntos, siguieron el desarrollo del proyecto Viking, una de las primeras misiones a Marte. Así decidió que quería ser ingeniero. En esta charla nos contará sobre cómo empezó a trabajar con el JPL y cuáles han sido sus retos más grandes en misiones a Venus, Marte y en especial en Poseidón, un satélite para el estudio de los océanos en el que tuvo que usar todos sus conocimientos. 🚀Miguel San Martín (Argentina) es ingeniero electrónico de la universidad de Syracuse con máster en Ingeniería Aeronáutica y Astronáutica del MIT. Es miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería de EEUU. 🚀Alberto Rojo (Argentina). Físico Ph.D. de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Es profesor del Departamento de Física de la Universidad de Oakland. Tiene más de ochenta trabajos publicados en revistas indexadas, apasionado y prolífico divulgador. También es músico y escritor, su obra literaria incluye los libros La física en la vida cotidiana (2007), El azar en la vida cotidiana (2012) y Borges y la física cuántica (2013). Grabó a dúo con Mercedes Sosa y compuso a dúo con Pedro Aznar, Luis Gurevich y Víctor Heredia. Su discografía incluye De visita (1999), Para mi sombra (2003) y Tangentes (2009)

Host Dave Schlom visits with grant winners from a NASA program designed to boost and accelerate science and engineering programs with potential space applications at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI).

In “The Martian,” when astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on the Red Planet, he turns to an old NASA mission for help. He travels to an ancient floodplain called Ares Vallis, where he grabs Mars Pathfinder. Later, he uses the parts to contact Earth and help arrange his rescue. “The Martian” is fiction, but Pathfinder was real. The lander and rover touched down on Mars 25 years ago today, and operated for almost three months. It was the first landing on Mars in two decades, and the first rover on any other planet. Pathfinder was designed mainly to test out new technologies for landing and operating on Mars. The craft bounced to a halt inside a cocoon of airbags, for example. Yet Pathfinder also carried scientific instruments, on both the lander and the rover, which was named Sojourner. The rover weighed about 25 pounds and was the size of a microwave oven. In all, it traveled roughly the length of a football field. It measured the composition of the rocks and soil, and found that liquid water had once flowed across the surface. And it demonstrated that a rover could be guided along the Martian surface, setting the stage for more-capable machines in the future. The lander monitored the weather and snapped more than 16,000 pictures. They revealed clouds of water ice in the early morning, and dust devils twirling across the desert landscape later in the day — a quarter of a century ago.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

It was the mission that sent NASA's robotic explorers to Mars for the first time in two decades, relying on a new landing method and revolutionizing the public's interaction with the space program.  Today's Sci-Fi 5 remembers Mars Pathfinder. Follow Sci-Fi 5 for your daily dose of science-fiction history. Written and hosted by Earl Green Music by Devin Curry

It was the mission that sent NASA's robotic explorers to Mars for the first time in two decades, relying on a new landing method and revolutionizing the public's interaction with the space program.  Today's Sci-Fi 5 remembers Mars Pathfinder. Follow Sci-Fi 5 for your daily dose of science-fiction history. Written and hosted by Earl Green Music by Devin Curry

It was the mission that sent NASA's robotic explorers to Mars for the first time in two decades, relying on a new landing method and revolutionizing the public's interaction with the space program.  Today's Sci-Fi 5 remembers Mars Pathfinder. Follow Sci-Fi 5 for your daily dose of science-fiction history. Written and hosted by Earl Green Music by Devin Curry

Az aktuális Sokolébresztő témája a 25 évvel ezelőtt már a vörös bolygó felé tartó ikonikus űrszonda, a Mars Pathfinder története. https://parallaxis.blog.hu/2022/04/07/sokol_ep129 https://youtu.be/Ky8MzfkPdUc A Parallaxis Patreon oldalán támogatóink számára még a premier előtt elérhetővé tesszük podcastjeink legújabb epizódját! https://www.patreon.com/parallaxis Podcastjeink epizódjai elérhetőek Facebookon, Soundcloud- és YouTube-csatornánkon, valamint Google Podcasts-en, iTunes-on és Spotify-on is! Kattints és válassz platformot! https://parallaxis.blog.hu/2021/07/16/podcast_platformok

Vor 25 Jahren startete die NASA die Mission Mars Pathfinder. Der „Pfadfinder“ war der erste Marsflug nach 20 Jahren Pause – und wies tatsächlich den Weg zur intensiven Erforschung des roten Planeten.Von Dirk Lorenzenwww.deutschlandfunk.de, SternzeitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

NASA's Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins Tim to talk about big plans for the red planet, Mars. Jim has had a long and distinguished career on some of the agency's major research projects and missions that have explored the rest of our solar system, from Mars to Pluto. In this episode, Jim gets into detail on what we have learned, can learn and will learn from Earth's nextdoor neighbor. He uncovers some of the secrets of Mars. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shapingopinion/Revealing_the_Secrets_of_Mars_auphonic.mp3 Next to the Moon and the Sun, the most captivating celestial bodies in our night sky for mankind over thousands and thousands of years has been Mars. The red planet. The fourth rock from the sun. So, it made sense when we started to make plans for space travel, Mars would figure prominently into those plans. As far back as the inception of both the Soviet and American space programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, space scientist started making plans to explore Mars. By July 4, 1997, NASA was able to land a spacecraft on Mars.  The Mars Pathfinder was launched on December 4th 1996. Six months later, it landed on Mars. The unit featured the first-ever robotic rover that sent an unprecedented amount of data on the planet back to scientists at NASA. After that, there were other missions, which included Mars orbiters, landers, and excavators.  And the United States hasn't been the only country working to explore the planet. The Soviet Union, then Russia, then China, then India, and even the United Arab Emirates have launched missions to Mars. Each time, we learn something new and something significant about Mars. But in the end, there is one question that continues to drive mankind's quest to visit Mars. Is there life on that planet, and if so, what does it look like? Jim Green has worked to find the answers to this and many other questions throughout his career as a scientist at NASA. Links NASA's Mars Exploration Program James L. Green, NASA Why We Explore Mars, National Geographic Nicolaus Copernicus, History.com Jezero Crater - Mars, NASA About this Episode's Guest Dr. Jim Green Dr. Jim GreenPhoto courtesy of NASA NASA's Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green received his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Iowa in 1979 and began working in the Magnetospheric Physics Branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1980. At Marshall, Dr. Green developed and managed the Space Physics Analysis Network, which provided many scientists, all over the world, with rapid access to data, other scientists, and specific NASA computer and information resources. In addition, Dr. Green was a safety diver in the Neutral Buoyancy tank making over 150 dives until he left MSFC in 1985. From 1985 to 1992 he was the Head of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The NSSDC is NASA's largest space science data archive. In 1992 he became the Chief of the Space Science Data Operations Office until 2005 when he became the Chief of the Science Proposal Support Office. While at GSFC, Dr. Green was also co-investigator and the Deputy Project Scientist on the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) mission. From 1992 to 2000 he was also the Deputy Project Scientist for Mission Operations and Data Analysis for the Global Geospace Science Missions WIND and POLAR. He has written over 110 scientific articles in referred journals involving various aspects of the Earth's and Jupiter's magnetospheres and over 50 technical articles on various aspects of data systems and computer networks. From August 2006 to April 2018 Dr. Green was the Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. Under his leadership several missions have been successfully executed, including the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto, the MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter,

The article Simon didn't want to tear himself away from. The boys talk about flight on other planets, sponsoring a flight on this planet, and Dan discovers his new favourite sport. Oh, and Simon has some announcement or other. Fantastic work from you all writing in with your strange sports - please do keep them coming in, and let us know if there's an opportunity to join you (in the post rona times) to film us trying them! #GetHenryCavillOnTheWikicast -------- Dragonfly mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)  Matt Lowne's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattLowneFilms/  Ingenuity and balancing the speed of rotors: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a35353442/ingenuity-mars-helicopter/  Magnificat 2 Electric Boogaloo (DCPOTW): https://open.spotify.com/album/0R9LgqYSxUv4ELDpNOC4g6?si=X-Pv3lqgRYmoWPGk2-LVFg  Dan and Simon ice skating together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflCuvKd3pQ  RPGeeks one shot video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/983671018  Preorder Firmament: https://geni.us/firmament  Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast -------- Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder  Our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheWikicast/  Fan facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/268878873600832/  Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F

What’s it all about? Wireless Charging!! A concept that blows the mind of some, and yet it’s here and in operation. I met Andy Daga at a conference we were both speaking at, and I’ve wanted to get him onto the podcast ever since. From working on the Space Station, to working on irradicating fuel stations, Andy has a fascinating background, and company doing amazing things. I hope you enjoy the episode. About Andy Daga Andy is the founder and President and CEO of Momentum Dynamics. Andy’s fascinating story takes him from his birthplace of Brooklyn, NY, through Ithaca NY where his family developed the best Italian Restaurant in town through Hawaii, degrees in structural and civil engineering, architecture and space science and technology, ground-breaking work at NASA and his current role at Momentum Dynamics. Prior to founding Momentum Dynamics, Andy was a leading consultant to the aerospace industry and contributed to the design of the International Space Station solar power array system, the Mars Pathfinder program, and future mission planning studies with NASA and the US Department of Defense. Andy will admit that this layered journey wasn’t fully planned, but nor did it happen by accident: as a child, Andy would travel with his family from his home in Brooklyn to visit their extended family in Philadelphia, PA. This route took him through New Jersey and past the bleak refineries of Route 95. As a lover of architectural beauty, the outdoors and being obsessive about ‘all things efficiency’, the New Jersey oil refineries were the antithesis of everything Andy wanted the world to be. Fast forward to Andy’s time at NASA. He came upon the idea of inductive charging while mulling on ways to save cable weight on the International Space Station and future Mars missions. Why employ heavy cabling to carry electrons when it could be done efficiently through a vacuum or even the air itself? Out of this thought was born Momentum Dynamics. Through his varied experiences Andy has developed a strong capacity to identify engineering talent and manage multidisciplinary engineering and business teams. Andy is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) where he serves on a number of standards committees. He believes that every precious piece of our finite resources should be fully valued and carefully spent. He envisions a world of zero emissions, zero cables and zero wasted miles doing anything but making our lives better. He is a devoted husband, family man, polymath and entrepreneur. He is passionate about his dogs and his team at MD - perhaps in that order. He is still working to make the world a better place, one electron at a time. About Momentum Dynamics Momentum Dynamics develops and produces wireless charging systems for the transport industry. The company is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania and employees over 60 engineers, technicians and scientists. The company as deployed wireless systems operating in the United States and Europe. The company’s vision is to increase the adoption of electric vehicles by improving the cost and time efficiency of the EV charging infrastructure and at the time rid the world of charging cables. Social links Andy Daga on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdaga/ Momentum Dynamics Website: https://momentumdynamics.com/ Momentum Dynamics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MomentumDynamic Momentum Dynamics on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/momentum-dynamics/ EPISODE LINKS The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation https://www.amazon.co.uk/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

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Desde niño sintió una curiosidad irrefrenable por entender cómo se construyen las cosas. Así desarrolló su pasión por la ingeniería. Pero fue viendo a Neil Armstrong pisar la Luna, desde su Argentina natal y en su televisor blanco y negro, cuando despertó su vocación por la exploración del espacio. En la actualidad, Miguel San Martín es jefe de ingeniería aeroespacial en el ‘Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ de la NASA. Su trabajo se centra en analizar los problemas que se presentan durante el aterrizaje de las naves de exploración en otros planetas, lunas o asteroides. Ha llevado a cabo misiones de gran importancia para la investigación espacial, como la ‘Magallanes’ a Venus o la ‘Cassini’ a Saturno. Pero su área de especialización son las exploraciones a Marte. Participó en las misiones ‘Mars Pathfinder’ (1997), ‘Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit’ y ‘Opportunity’ (2004). En 2011 tuvo un papel clave en la exitosa misión ‘Curiosity’ para la exploración de la superficie marciana. Miguel San Martín se licenció en Ingeniería Electrónica en la Universidad de Syracuse (Estado de Nueva York) y en 1985 terminó su Máster en Ingeniería Aeronáutica y Astronáutica en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ese mismo año entró a formar parte de la NASA. Ha recibido numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Premio Konex al Mérito en desarrollo tecnológico, la Medalla del logro de Ingeniería Excepcional de la NASA y el  prestigioso Premio Collier Trophy, otorgado por la Asociación Nacional de Aeronáutica estadounidense. En 2019 fue elegido miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería de Estados Unidos.

Agricoltura marziana: riusciremo mai a coltivare vegetali su Marte? Potremmo prendere esempio dal protagonista del film The Martian

TiVo is a computer. To understand the history, let's hop in our trusty time machine. It's 1997. England gives Hong Kong back to China, after 156 years of British rule. The Mars Pathfinder touches down on Mars. The OJ Simpson trials are behind us, but the civil suit begins. Lonely Scottish scientists clone a sheep and name it Dolly. The first Harry Potter book is published. Titanic is released. Tony Blair is elected the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Hanson sang Mmmm Bop. And Pokemon is released. No not Pokemon Go, but Pokemon. The world was changing. The Notorious BIG was gunned down not far from where I was living at the time. Blackstreet released No Diggity. Third Eye Blind led a Semi-Charmed life and poppy grunge killed grunge grunge. And television. Holy buckets. Friends, Seinfeld, X Files, ER, Buff and the Vampire Slayer, Frasier, King of the Hill, Dharma and Greg, South Park, The Simpsons, Stargate, Home Improvement, Daria, Law and Order, Oz, Roseanne, The View, The Drew Carey Show, Family Matters, Power Rangers, JAG, Tenacious D, Lois and Clark, Spawn. Mosaic the first web browser, was released, Sergey Brin and Larry Page registered a weird domain name called Google because BackRub just seemed kinda' weird. Facebook, craigslist, and Netflix were also purchased. Bill Gates became the richest business nerd in the world. DVDs were released. The hair was big. But commercials were about to become a thing of the past. So were cords. 802.11, also known as Wi-Fi, became a standard. Microsoft bought WebTV, but something else was about to happen that would forever change the way we watched television. We'd been watching television for roughly the same way for about 70 years. Since January 13th in 1928, when the General Electric factory in Schenectady, New York broadcast as WGY Television, using call letters W2XB. That was for experiments, but they launched W2XBS a little later, now known as WNBC. They just showed a Felix the Cat spinning around on a turntable for 2 hours a day to test stuff. A lot of testing around different markets were happening and The Queen's Messenger would be the first drama broadcast on television in LA later that year. But it wasn't until 1935 that the BBC started airing regular content and the late 1930s that regular programming started in the US, spreading slowly throughout the world, with Japan being one of the last countries to get a regular broadcast in 1953. So for the next several decades a love affair began with humans and their televisions. Color came to prime time in 1972, after the price of color TVs introduced over the couple of decades before started to come down in price. Entire industries sprang up around the television, or at least migrated from newspapers and radio to television. Moon landings, football, baseball, the news, game shows. Since that 1972 introduction of color tv, the microcomputer revolution had come. Computers were getting smaller. Hard drive capacity was growing. I could stroll down to the local Fry's and buy a Western Digital, IBM Deskstar, Seagate Barracuda, an HP Kitty Hawk, or even a 10,000 RPM Cheetah. But the cheaper drives had come down enough for mass distribution. And so it was when Time Warner, a major US cable company at the time, decided to test a digital video system. They tapped Silicon Graphics alumni Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay to look into a set top box, or network appliance, or something. After initial testing, Time Warner didn't think it was quite the right time to build nation-wide. They'd spent $100 million dollars testing the service in Orlando. So the pair struck out on their own. Silicon Valley was abuzz about set top boxes, now that the web was getting big, dialup was getting easy, and PCs were pretty common fare. Steve Perlman's WebTV got bought by Microsoft for nearly half a billion dollars. Which became MSN TV and played the foundation for the Xbox hardware. I remember well that the prevailing logic of the time was that the set top box was the next big thing. The lagerts would join the Internet revolution. Grandma and Grandpa would go online. So Ramsay and Barton got a check for $3M from VC firms to further develop their idea. They founded a company called Teleworld and started running public trials of a new device that came out of their research, called TiVo. The set top box would go beyond television and be a hub for home networking, managing refrigerators, thermostats, manage your television, order a grocery delivery, and even bring the RFC for an internet coffee pot to life! But they were a little before their time on some of this. After some time, they narrowed the focus to a television receiver that could record content. The VC firms were so excited they ponied up another $300 million dollars to take the product to market. Investors even asked how long it would take the TV networks to shut them down. Disruption was afoot. When Ramsay and Barton approached Apple, Claris and Lucas Arts veteran Randy Komisar, he suggested they look at charging for a monthly service. But he, as with the rest of Silicon Valley, bought their big idea, especially since Komisar had sat on the board of WebTV. TiVo would need to raise a lot of money to ink deals with the big content providers of the time. They couldn't alienate the networks. No one knew, but the revolution in cutting the cord was on the way. Inking deals with those providers would prove to be much more expensive than building the boxes. They set about raising capital. They inked deals with Sony, Philips, Philips, and announced a release of the first TiVo at the Consumer Electronics Show in January of 1999. They'd built an outstanding executive team. They'd done their work. And on March 31st, 1999, a Blue Moon, they released the Series 1 for about $500 and with a $9.95 monthly subscription fee. The device would use a modem to download tv show listings, which would later be replaced with an Ethernet, then Wi-Fi option. The Series1, like Apple devices at the time, would sport a PowerPC processor. Although this one was a 403GCX that only clocked in at 54 MHz - but cheap enough for an embedded system like this. It also came with 32 MB of RaM, a 13 to 60 gig IDE/ATA drive, and would convert analog signal into MPEG-2, storing from 14 to 60 hours of television programming. Back then, you could use the RCA cables or S-Video. They would go public later that year, raising 88 million dollars and nearly doubling in value overnight. By 2000 TiVo was in 150,000 homes and burning through cash far faster than they were making it. It was a huge idea and if big ideas take time to percolate, huge ideas take a lot of time. And a lot of lawsuits. In order to support the new hoarder mentality they were creating, The Series2 would come along in 2002 and would come with up to a 250 gig drive, USB ports, CPUs from 166 to 266 MHz, from 32 to 64 megs of RAM, and the MPEG encoder got moved off to the Broadcom BCM704x chips. In 2006, the Series 3 would introduce HD support, add HDMI, 10/100 Ethernet, and support drives of 2 terabytes with 128 megs of RAM. Ramsay left the company in 2007 to go work at Venture Partners. Barton, the CTO, would leave in 2012. Their big idea had been realized. They weren't needed any more. Ramsay and Barton would found streaming service Qplay, but that wouldn't make it over two years. By then, TiVo had become a verb. Series4 brought us to over a thousand hours of television and supported bluetooth, custom apps, and sport a Broadcom 400 MHZ dual core chip. But it was 2010. Popular DVD subscription service Netflix had been streaming and now had an app that could run on the Series 4. So did Rhapsody, Hulu, and YouTube. The race was on for streaming content. TiVo was still aiming for bigger, faster, cheaper set top boxes. But people were consuming content differently. TiVo gave apps, but Apple TV, Roku, Amazon, and other vendors were now in the same market for a fraction of the cost and without a subscription. By 2016 TiVo was acquired by Rovi for 1.1 Billion dollars and as is often the case in these kinds of scenarios seems listless. Direction… Unknown. After such a disruptive start, I can't imagine any innovation will ever recapture that spirit from the turn of the millennia. And so in December of 2019 (the month I'm recording this episode), after months trying to split TiVo into two companies so they could be sold separately TiVo scrapped that idea and merged with Xperi. I find that we don't talk about Tivo much any more. That doesn't mean they've gone anywhere, just that the model has shifted over the years. According to TechCrunch “TiVo CEO David Shull noted also that Xperi's annual licensing business includes over 100 million connected TV units, and relationships with content providers, CE manufacturers, and automotive OEMs, which now benefit from TiVo's technology.” TiVo was a true disruptor. Along with Virtual CEO Randy Komisar, they sold Silicon Valley on Monthly Recurring Revenue as a key performance indicator. They survived the .com bubble and even thrived in it. They made television interactive. They didn't cut our cords, but they expanded our minds so we could cut them. They introduced the idea of responsibly selling customer data as a revenue stream to help keep those fees in check. And in so doing, they let manufacturers micro market goods and services. They revolutionized the way we consume content. Something we should all be thankful for. So next time you're binging a show from one of your favorite providers, just think about the fact that you might have to spend time with your family or friends if it weren't for TiVo. You owe them a huge thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcXHeV1UGs Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: Dr. R. Aileen Yingst is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, a research institution headquartered in Tucson, AZ. She is Principal Investigator for the Heimdall camera system being built for a future lunar mission, and Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars Handlens Imager instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. She is also a Co-Investigator on the newly-funded Dragonfly mission, an associate on the Dawn at Ceres mission and most recently served as Associate Principal Investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Other missions that Dr. Yingst has worked on include Dawn at Vesta, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, and Galileo. Dr. Yingst served as Director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for 14 years. Regular Guests: Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier ) Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz ) Veranika (Nika) Klimovich ( @veranikaspace / Pictame: @nika_klim ) This week's stories: - Updating planetary protection. - The first all-female spacewalk. - 3D printed meat on the ISS! - Did an ancient supernova force humans to walk upright? - The upcoming transit of Mercury.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

On this day in 1997, Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Why are we as a human race so fascinated with Mars? Where did this desire come from? What have we sent there already and what are we sending now? Find out in this episode of Space, But Messier!   News: UPDATE: Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 still falling, but China has been monitoring Tiangong-1 and has determined that the space lab will burn up after entering the atmosphere and the remaining wreckage will fall into a designated area in the sea, without endangering the earth. NASA is building a HAMMER Not a hammer like one in your toolbox at home, instead, they’re building a Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER). The plan is to protect our planet from asteroids before they can reach Earth. This project is headed up by NASA, the US National Security Administration and a weapons lab from the US Energy Department. There are two ways the system could prevent an asteroid from slamming into Earth. Firstly, it would hit an asteroid to knock it off course and miss our planet. The second, and infinitely more dangerous, is that HAMMER would detonate an on-board nuclear warhead to splinter or destroy it altogether. Part of the reason for the development of HAMMER is NASA's monitoring of an asteroid named Bennu. (Ben-noo) Bennu can be seen every six years from Earth – but in 2135 it is expected to pass between us and the Moon. That could tweak its orbit and set it on a direct course for our planet. This year, NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe will arrive and spend a year surveying Bennu, which orbits the sun at 63,000mph. (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer || God of Ancient Egypt)  Mars Pt.1 | Past & Present Why Mars? Why not Venus, Mercury, the Moon? Mars may be our closest planetary neighbor, close in size and the length our days. We may even be able to survive there for a bit. But why does everybody want to go to the red planet? What is Mars? Mars is much colder than Earth, with an average temperature of -80F or -60C 38% Earth’s gravity. (Moon is 16% of Earth’s gravity) The atmosphere of Mars is also almost 100 times thinner than Earth's, but it is still thick enough to support weather, clouds and winds. However, if you’ve seen the Martian, you may be wondering how accurate the storm seen is. For those who haven’t seen it… Giant dust devils often kick up oxidized iron dust that covers the surface  and every 5 1/2 Earth years, Mars has a global dust storm. That being said, It is unlikely that even these dust storms could strand an astronaut on Mars. Even the wind in the largest dust storms would not knock over or rip apart mechanical equipment. The winds in the strongest Martian storms top out at about 60 miles per hour, less than half the speed of some hurricane-force winds on Earth. Lastly, IT SNOWS ON MARS, instead of water, it’s made of carbon dioxide and looks more like fog than snow. History - Canali In the 1800s, telescopes were rapidly growing in size and in Milan, Italy, 1877, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, began mapping and naming areas on Mars. He named the dark and light areas as "seas" and "continents". He also saw channels on Mars and called them "canali." Canali translates to channels, but it was mistranslated into "canals" in English implying intelligent life on Mars. Because of the then recent completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, people assumed that Mars must have intelligent life. Then in 1894 in Flagstaff, Arizona, Percival Lowel observed Mars himself. Knowling of the recent discovery of canals on Mars, his observations confirmed this these straight lines on the planet and mapped hundreds of them. Lowell believed that the straight lines were Martian-made canals built to transport water from the polar caps to the equator. In 1895, he published his first book on Mars with many illustrations and it was game over. 1897 - Kurd Lasswitz - Two Planets 1898 - H.G. Wells - War of the Worlds 1949 - Robert Heinline - Red Planet 1950 - Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles 1951 - Arthur C. Clarke - The Sands of Mars 1961 - Robert Heinline - Stranger in a Strange Land … leading to today 2011 - Andy Weir - The Martian Satellites (Past) Mariner Spacecraft (1964-1971) were designed to be our first glimpses of Mars, being sent to Mars on a fly-by mission with MAriner 4 sending back our first ever images of another planet and Mariner 9 being the first ever satellite to enter Mars’ orbit. Mars Observer (1992) and Mars Climate Orbiter (1998) lost contact upon arrival Mars Global Surveyor arrived (1997)  and orbited Mars for 4 times longer than expected. (Present) Mars Odyssey (2001) studies the composition of the planet's surface, water and ice detection, as well as radiation. Mars Express (2003) - with ESA- studies MArs’s atmosphere and surface from a polar orbit NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006) carries the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet.  The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft will provide information about Mars’s atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability of the planet Rovers (Past) In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 & 2 became the first spacecraft to safely land on another planet.  The Mars Pathfinder mission (1997) was meant to be a demonstration of technology. With the Carl sagan Memorial Station as it’s lander and the Sojourner Rover. However, they ended up sending back 2.3 billion bits of information, 17,000 images, and more than 15 chemical analyses from rocks and soil. Mars Polar Lander (1999) was meant to land on the frozen terrain near the edge of Mars' south polar cap and dig for water ice with a robotic arm, but unfortunately lost upon arrival The Phoenix Mars Lander  (2008) successfully landed on the north polar region of Mars and it successfully dug up and analyzed icy soil. (Present) Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) (2004) search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers are identical to each other, but are exploring different regions of Mars. Mars Science Laboratory (2012) is twice as long and three times as heavy as Spirit and Opportunity, Curiosity mission is to tell us if Mars is habitable, can we live there.

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En el primer tema del programa celebramos el aniversario del aterrizaje de la Mars Pathfinder haciendo un repaso de los 20 años de exploración de Marte. El segundo tema está dedicado a las constelaciones perdidas del cielo. Tampoco faltan a la cita las secciones de retroalimentación y recomendaciones. La tripulación de Radio Skylab está compuesta por Víctor Manchado (Pirulo Cósmico), Daniel Marín (Eureka), Carlos Pazos (Mola Saber) y Víctor R. Ruiz (Infoastro). Si te apasiona la ciencia, el espacio y otras curiosidades, ¡únete a nosotros!

En el primer tema del programa celebramos el aniversario del aterrizaje de la Mars Pathfinder haciendo un repaso de los 20 años de exploración de Marte. El segundo tema está dedicado a las constelaciones perdidas del cielo. Tampoco faltan a la cita las secciones de retroalimentación y recomendaciones. La tripulación de Radio Skylab está compuesta por Víctor Manchado (Pirulo Cósmico), Daniel Marín (Eureka), Carlos Pazos (Mola Saber) y Víctor R. Ruiz (Infoastro). Si te apasiona la ciencia, el espacio y otras curiosidades, ¡únete a nosotros!

A continuation of my interview with JPL’s Rob Manning. Rob was the Chief Engineer for the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Mars Exploration Rovers, and the Curiosity Mars rover. We pick up our discussion talking about the airbag landing system that was used to land Pathfinder on Mars, a NASA first. Testing was critical, and had to proceed on a tight budget. Rob discusses these challenges, and looks ahead to the Mars 2020 rover and sample return missions.

Part one of Rod's interview with Rob Manning, the Chief Engineer for the Engineering and Science Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Rob was also the Chief Engineer for the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Pathfinder missions. This week represents the 20th anniversary of the Pathfinder landing on July 4, 1997. Rob joins us in a two-part discussion about how the Pathfinder mission came to be, and discusses how some of the challenges were overcome in the unlikeliest--and cheapest--ways you might imagine. It was a mission on a budget that was achieved with ingenuity, passion, and by a few visits to the local Home Depot!

Episode Links: STS-121 NASA Mission Information Page (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/main/index.html) NASA Mars Pathfinder Website (old school page) (https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/index0.html) Mars Pathfinder- Introduction to the Microrover (https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/rovercom/rovintro.html) JPL Press Release- NASA Renames Mars Lander in Honor of Late Carl Sagan (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/sagansta.html) STS-4 Landing Anniversary Pictures (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/STS-4_30th_anniversary.html) Astronauts Mattingly and Hartsfield appear with President Reagan and the First Lady (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/thisweek/ECN-20220.html) President Reagan's Remarks at Edwards Air Force Base (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42704) STS-4 Mission Summary (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-4.html) Independence Day- The Movie- President Whitmore's Speech (https://youtu.be/oj16vfbsM9A)

On July 4th, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission touched down on Mars, ending a 15 years period where no spacecraft operated in the Red Planet. Twenty years later, the mission's impact on our understand of Mars is still felt. Jake is joined by Matt Golombek (Project Scientist), Brian Muirhead (Flight Systems Manager & Deputy Project Manager), Donna Shirley (Mars Exploration Program Manager), and Tanya Harrison (Planetary Scientist) who recount the story and explain why the mission plays such an important role in the last two decades of Mars exploration. Links The original Pathfinder Press Kit for Landing Day at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Launch Footage Paper by Matt Golombek on the Mission CNN Coverage of the Landing Part 1 Part 2 WeMartians music is "RetroFuture", "Electrodoodle", "We Got Trouble", "Aretes" and "Heartwarming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional sound effects by Sentuniman licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses the possibility of going to Mars with Dr. Jim rice. James W. Rice, PhD (USA)Dr. James W. Rice, is an Astrogeologist with over 25 years of research experience specializing on the surface geology and history of water on Mars. His career includes working for NASA, Astrogeology Headquarters of the United States Geological Survey, the Mars Spaceflight Facility located at Arizona State University and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory located at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rice is a Co-Investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Project (Spirit and Opportunity).Rice also has mission experience working on the Mars Odyssey Orbiter and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Projects. Dr. Rice has been involved in Mars landing site selection and certification activities for every NASA Mars Mission since Mars Pathfinder in 1995.Dr. Rice has extensive geological field experience (over 20 years experience in Antarctica, High Arctic, Iceland, Hawaii) studying a wide variety of Mars analog environments. He has been a team member on numerous international geological field expeditions around the world including a 6 month long joint NASA/Russian expedition to Antarctica. This work included being a member of the SCUBA diving team to first investigate the perennially frozen lakes of eastern Antarctica. Rice has also led several NASA field conferences to Mars analog sites around the world.Dr. Rice also serves on several NASA Science Analysis Groups for manned missions back to the Moon and Mars.

Aired 08/05/12 ROB MANNING is the Chief Engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. MANNING has been designing, testing and operating robotic spacecraft and rovers for 30 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. In the 1990's Rob was chief engineer for Mars Pathfinder, the first to send a rover to Mars. He also led flight system engineering for the Rover Entry, Descent and Landing teams. Rob is in the Aviation Week Magazine Space Laureate Hall of Fame in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. We talk just hours before the rover Curiosity landed on Mars. Using a never-before-tried landing system called a "sky crane," the degree of difficulty of this landing is enormous. After parachuting to within one mile of the surface, the sky crane fires thrusters to lower itself to hover over the surface. While hovering, Curiosity is lowered to the ground on cables. Once the cables are released, the sky crane jets to a safe distance before crashing to the ground, leaving the rover to explore the planet's surface. We'll talk with Manning about the aims as well as the challenges of this mission.

It's the season for icing here in the midwest. As some instrument-rated and other pilots can tell you, few things have higher pucker factor than looking out at your wings while you're in the clouds and seeing ice begin to form. Most general aviation aircraft don't have de-icing equipment on board and even those that do often aren't certified for flight into known icing conditions.For most GA pilots, that means avoiding icing in the first place - and that requires the development and use of the most effective anti-icing tool you have. Your noggin.Few are more qualified to provide authoritative information about icing than the professionals on the Icing Team and in the Flight Operations team at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. We had the opportunity recently to talk to NASA Glenn pilots Kurt Blankenship and Bill Rieke and researcher Dr. Judy Van Zante, a contractor with ASRC Aerospace.Bill Rieke is chief of aircraft operations at the NASA Glenn. He began his flying career with the U. S. Navy in 1966 and flew with Fighter Squadron 74 aboard the USS Forrestal and later flew tactical aircraft with the U. S. Air Force (Air National Guard). He also flew as a captain for the Standard Oil Company before joining NASA. He has flown research and test missions for NASA since 1981.During his time at NASA he has been the lead project pilot for numerous projects ranging from zero-gravity flight to advanced cockpit technology for the U. S. Air Force. He has also been deeply involved in airborne icing research since 1982.Bill has an airline transport certificate, five type ratings and 12,000 hours of flight time. His military flight experience was almost exclusively in tactical jet aircraft.Kurt Blankenship is an NASA Icing Research Tunnel Operator, NASA Glenn Research Center Pilot and the Centerâ??s Aviation Safety Officer. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a CH-53 Helicopter Crew Chief from 1981 to 1985 and then worked for Continental Air Lines as a mechanic. He then attended Bowling Green State University and was a flight instructor and director of maintenance for the schoolâ??s flight department during that time. He was a corporate pilot and mechanic from 1990 to 1994 and has been with NASA Glenn since 1994. He holds commercial, flight instructor, and airline transport pilot certificates and, in addition to flying NASA Glennâ??s icing research aircraft, he is type rated in Learjets and has over 1,000 hours of flight research time.Judy Van Zante is a researcher and project lead for the pilot training aids at NASA Glenn and has also done flight test engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. She flew on the icing research aircraft and did substantial other research as part of the NASA/FAA Tailplane Icing Program.NASA Glenn's icing research aircraft is a modified DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. It is powered by two 550 hp Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20A turbine engines that drive three-bladed Hartzel constant speed propellers. Its relatively large size makes this aircraft a versatile test bed for in-flight icing research reaching speeds of 150 knots with a range of 500 nautical miles with a maximum fuel load. The Twin Otter has been modified to carry a full complement of sophisticated instruments that measure and record important properties of icing clouds. A stereoscopic camera system documents ice accretion characteristics of the aircraft in flight.Most test flights are conducted below 10,000 ft., but the Otter has an oxygen system onboard for flight up to 16,000 ft. Research flights are performed with two pilots and up to three research personnel on-board. The ice protection system on the Otter is a combination of pneumatic boots, electrothermal anti-icing, and electrothermal de-icing. NASA has added pneumatic de-icing boots to the vertical tail, wing struts, and main gear struts. The high level of ice protection allows safe flight into known icing conditions, as well as the ability to selectively de-ice aircraft surfaces. By selectively de-icing, it is possible to evaluate the performance, stability, and control effects of ice on various surfaces. The Twin Otter supports the Icing Research Tunnel research and new icing protection systems. It has two experimental sites, the overhead hatch and the wing cuff, that subject test models to the icing environment while the aircraft remains clear of ice through de-icing. This aircraft is currently being used to acquire extensive experimental data about icing effects on aircraft flight. The aircraft has been used for, and is adaptable to other flight research projects.Those who aren't pilots or who haven't undertaken instrument training might be a little mystified by some of the terminology that you're about to hear, so here's a quick glossary.MEA: Minimum Enroute Altitude ( or "MEA") is the recommended minimum altitude that an aircraft should fly on a segment of an airway in instrument meteorological conditions. Flying at or above the MEA ensures clearance from terrain and obstacles, ensures reception of signals from ground-based navigation aids and, in a radar environment, makes it so that relevant air traffic controlfacilities can see the aircraft on radar.Pirep: A pilot report. It is a report of weather conditions given by a pilot of an aircraft that is aloft. Pireps for turbulence, icing, and visibility are considered particularly valuable pireps.STC: A supplemental type certificate. Aircraft that have type certificates (such as most production airplanes) must conform to the specifications in their type certificates or be registered as experimental or not flown. You can't mess much with an aircraft without losing the type certificate. An STC issued by the FAA permits the owner of an aircraft to make the covered modifications while maintaining the aircraft's type certificate. Frequent subjects of STCs are engine modifications and de-icing systems. There are also several STCs that allow installation of ballistic recovery parachutes in various production aircraft.So on to the interview with NASA Glenn pilots Kurt Blankenship and Bill Rieke and researcher Dr. Judy Van Zante.[Interview audio.]Thanks to Bill Rieke, Kurt Blankenship, and Judy Van Zante and thanks to NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio!With all this talk of icing, it might be easy to forget that NASA Glenn does a lot more than icing research. Space exploration systems, microgravity science, bioscience, aeronautic propulsion, instrumentation, and turbomachinery all form a part of the program at NASA Glenn. For example, many shuttle and space station science missions have an experiment managed by Glenn. The Center also designs power and propulsion systems for space flight systems in support of NASA programs such as the International Space Station, Mars Pathfinder, and Deep Space 1. Glenn also leads NASA' Space Communications Program which included the operation of the ACTS satellite and systems for Cassini. The general public benefits from NASA's investment in the future through the knowledge gained, the inspiration provided and often technology dividends. NASA Glenn has won many awards including an Emmy, a Collier Trophy, and the 1996 Invention of the Year.Thanks also to Dave Schwartz, an Otter pilot and one of the hosts of Skydive Radio for his contrinbution of background information about flying Otters. You can hear Dave, Stump, and Cory on Skydive Radio by subscribing through your favorite podcatcher or visiting Skydive Radio's website at www.skydiveradio.com.More information about the Icing Branch of NASA Glenn Research Center: http://icebox-esn.grc.nasa.gov/More information about Kurt Blankenship: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/special/ltp/kurt.htmlMore information about Judy Van Zante: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/aero/vanzante.htmlNASA print resources: http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/resources/reading.htmlInformation about the icing videos: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2002/02-2-214x.html or http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/.Information about the Otter: http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/hangar/hangar_desc.htmlImage address: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/images/content/156287main_C-89-7713.jpg.Image used per NASA's policy entitled Using NASA Imagery and Linking to NASA Web Sites (October 13, 2005) located at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html.