Space

Host Dave Schlom visits with the 2022 recipient of the Frank Drake Award from the SETI Institute, Dr. Shelley Wright.

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Blue Dot Dave talks with two of the researchers whose proposals have been selected as well as the acting executive overseeing the program for NASA HQ.

Host Dave Schlom helps profile two NASA missions, one about to begin and one that has just been completed.

Host Dave is joined by special guest co-host Dr. Kendall Hall (Professor of Physics CSU Chico) to visit with James Webb Space Telescope science team member Dr. Charles Beichman, the Executive Director of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at CalTech in Pasadena.

Host Dave Schlom talks to two scientists studying the solar system but in very different ways.

Host Dave Schlom chats with Tim James about his new book, Astronomical: From Quasars to Quarks the Science of Space at its Strangest.

Host Dave Schlom visits with Brendan Byrne, space reporter for NPR affiliate WMFE in Orlando, Florida about a very busy 2021 in the space business with commercial flights by Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Host Dave Schlom chats with retired University of Iowa Physicist Donald Gurnett about his amazing career as a pioneer of the field of space plasma physics. Gurnett was only 17 when legendary space scientist James Van Allen took him under his wing at the university and Gurnett never left spending 60 years as a Hawkeye student, teacher, and researcher.

Blue Dot Host Dave Schlom talks to the three winners, out of 14,000 entrants for the Future Engineers/NASA Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest.