Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
Reflections of Humanity in a Spacesuit for Moonwalkers
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From: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan in a long and fascinating conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. This great book is about much more than creation of ...
Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye at Science Museum Oklahoma
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From: Mat Kaplan
Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding public science museum. You’ll meet University of Oklahoma researchers who ...
Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings
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From: Mat Kaplan
Join us as the little cubesat successfully unfurls its solar sail. You’ll hear from members of the LightSail 2 mission team on the morning of July 23, 2019, when the critical ...
Apollo 11 and the Woman Who Helped Get It Home
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From: Mat Kaplan
Poppy Northcutt was a pioneer—the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control. The program she helped to create got the astronauts back to Earth. Fifty ...
We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan
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From: Mat Kaplan
NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan. Mission Principal Investigator Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle helps ...
LightSail Takes Flight!
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From: Mat Kaplan
A giant SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off in the early hours of June 25th. One week later, the LightSail 2 solar sail was released to begin its epic mission. You’ll join the ...
The News From Saturn-With Linda Spilker
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From: Mat Kaplan
It has been many months since the great Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and fiery death. Yet the mission lives on as the reams of data and images reveal ...
Flight by Light: A LightSail 2 Mission Preview
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From: Mat Kaplan
The day is almost here. With the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, The Planetary Society will begin its mission to prove that a tiny, orbiting spacecraft can be propelled by ...
