Podcasts about smithsonian's national air

How is the The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum being Transformed? What is being done to enhance the visitor's museum experience? What’s next for the National Air and Space Museum. Join host Michael Keegan next week as he explores these questions and more with Chris Browne, Deputy Director, The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space […]

Debuting at the height of the US-Soviet Space Race, Star Trek offered an alternative to the adversarial ideology then underlying space exploration in the United Federation of Planets. A kind of intergalactic United Nations, the Federation is dedicated to preserving peace between species, ridding the known universe of war, inequality, hunger, and disease, and upholding the values of cooperation, equality, justice and liberty for all. The Federation's utopian balance between principled interventionism and self-determination is embodied in the Prime Directive, which decrees that Starfleet — the combined military, scientific, and exploratory forces of the Federation — must not interfere with either the cultural evolution or internal politics of "pre-warp" civilizations to avoid impacting their independent development. A number of storylines in both series and films centre on threats to the Federation (from both within and outside), the precariousness of peace building, the difficulties of diplomacy, and the need to understand and accommodate cultural difference within a collective. This roundtable discussion on Star Trek, politics, and diplomacy brings together Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, feature-film writer and director Nicholas Meyer (director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and Margaret Weitekamp, space history curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, to consider what the series can teach us about geopolitics and peace building.

We’re far away from each other. First fully black and white movie. Released smack in the middle of WWII. Animated history lesson of aviation. No one cares about the Wright brothers. The early stages of anything seems so useless. What’s your weapon of choice - brick or machine gun? Amanda knows nothing about WWI or WWII. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Phil recounts a game he once played on a plane. WWII is the absolute worst. Axis and Allies board game takes forever. Crete is useless in a board game but important in real life. Von Crashen Burn's Flying Circus is the best game ever. Everything we know about history is from Harry Potter. USA! USA! Next episode – Song of the South

Hi, everyone and welcome to a special interview-only episode of Floppy Days.  My name is Randy Kindig and I’m the host of this podcast.  This interview is with Paul Ceruzzi, curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C and author of several computer history books.  Those books include “A History of Modern Computing”, “Computing: A Concise History”, “Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History” and more.  Paul also sits on the Honorary Council of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.   Links Paul’s personal website - http://www.ceruzzi.com/ The MIT Press Catalog of Paul Ceruzzi - http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/paul-e-ceruzzi Computer History Museum Honorary Council - http://www.computerhistory.org/honorary/?fn=Paul&ln=Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Collection on Konrad Zuse - http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00219 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262032554/flodaypod-20  - “A History of Modern Computing” by Paul E. Ceruzzi, The MIT Press

Curator Margaret A. Weitekamp presents space-themed toys from the collection of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in a discussion how these toys encouraged our imaginations and our fascination with the "space frontier."

The outgoing and incoming Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chairs in Astrobiology -- David H. Grinspoon and Steven J. Dick -- discuss the societal implications of the search for life in the universe, Jan. 28, 2014. Speaker Biography: David H. Grinspoon held the inaugural astrobiology chair position at the Library of Congress from November 2012 to October 2013. His successful tenure included a day-long symposium on the longevity of human civilization and speaking appearances at the Library, NASA headquarters, NASA Goddard Research Center, the Philosophical Society of Washington, the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Grinspoon's research at the Library of Congress examined the history of the Earth from an astrobiological perspective, and the consequences for life on Earth in the "Anthropocene Era," the name given by some scientists to the current era in the Earth's history. An internationally known planetary scientist, funded by NASA to study the evolution of Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, Grinspoon serves as an adviser to NASA on space-exploration strategy. He is involved with many space missions and is a trained suborbital astronaut. He has been published widely in popular magazines, scholarly journals, and blogs. Speaker Biography: Steven J. Dick is an a well-known astronomer, author, and historian of science. His research at the Library of Congress investigates the human consequences of searching and potentially discovering life beyond Earth. Dick most recently testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology about astrobiology and the search for bio-signatures in our solar system. Prior to holding the astrobiology chair at the Kluge Center, he was the chair in aerospace history at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 2003 to 2009. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6194