Space

We conclude our Apollo @50 series of looks at the Apollo missions to the Moon with looks back and forward.

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.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Canadian geophysicist and fellow science communicator Mika McKinnon to talk about their mutual passion for the Earth Sciences, especially geology!

Host Dave Schlom gets a chance to revisit one of his favorite topics -- the twin Voyager spacecraft that began their explorations of the outer solar system and now interstellar space -- 45 years ago.

Blue Dot takes a trip to the Red Dot as Dave talks to British geologist/geophysicist and science fiction writer Simon Morden.

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

Rising gas prices and the pandemic boost e-bike popularity. Also, a new poll shows California voters support more protections for farmworkers in wildfire evacuation zones, and a state law enforcement commission held a special meeting Thursday on police misconduct.

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.