Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
Where Do We Come From? – Exploring the Origins of Life Lab
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From: Mat Kaplan
They may be the most important questions in all of science: Where do we come from? Are we alone? Researchers Ralph Pudritz and Maikel Rheinstadter are working on these ...
Celebrating Kepler
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From: Mat Kaplan
The Kepler mission has ended. Listen to highlights of the October 30th media briefing that included the father of the fantastically successful planet finder, William ...
Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun
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From: Mat Kaplan
LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Scout on a long, ...
Back to Saturn for Brand New Cassini Science
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From: Mat Kaplan
Our most frequent guest returns with exciting, just-published research enabled by the 20-year mission’s enormous success. Linda Spilker has served as Cassini Project ...
Celebrating Astronomy Day with the Giant Magellan Telescope
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From: Mat Kaplan
Happy Astronomy Day, October 13, 2018! We salute humankind’s long history of stargazing by checking in on what will be our planet’s largest telescope. Patrick McCarthy is an ...
John Logsdon and the Dawn of the Space Age
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From: Mat Kaplan
The Dean of space policy, John Logsdon, returns with stories and a new book of original documents that shaped the US space program from the birth of NASA to SpaceX. ...
SpaceX Builds a Big Falcon Rocket
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From: Mat Kaplan
A mostly SpaceX episode as the ambitious company provides updated details regarding its huge new rocket and introduces its first astronauts. Mat Kaplan shares more from the ...
Return to Fiery Mercury With BepiColombo
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From: Mat Kaplan
Elsa Montagnon is Spacecraft Operations Manager for the European/Japanese mission leaving for our solar system’s innermost planet very soon. She joins us to talk about the ...
Opportunity, Phone Home!
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From: Mat Kaplan
The dust is settling on the Red Planet. Is the remaining Mars Exploration Rover about to rise and shine after three months of slumber? MER Project Manager John Callas ...
