Big Science, Big Rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Mat Kaplan’s Huntsville, Alabama trip wraps up with a tour of the historic and history-making Marshall Space Flight Center. Join him at the control center for research underway on the International Space Station, under a tent where a critical component of the Space Launch System rocket is getting finishing touches, in a conversation about the Fermi spacecraft’s search for the universe’s biggest explosions, and with the Center’s Associate Director for Technical efforts. Then wrap up with Bruce Betts and the anniversaries of one fictional and one factual explorer of deep space. Learn and hear more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0905-2018-marshall-center.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Big Science and a big rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of a human adventure across our
0:16.1	solar system and beyond.
0:18.5	We began our visit to Huntsville, Alabama last week at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. This time we go next door to
0:25.2	the sprawling U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, hosts to NASA's Marshall Space
0:31.0	Flight Center. Many of the greatest moments in space history can be traced back to this facility,
0:36.0	right back to the first rocket to successfully carry an American satellite into orbit.
0:42.0	We'll meet the Center's Associate Director for an American satellite into orbit.
0:43.2	We'll meet the Center's Associate Director for all things technical.
0:46.8	Visit the Earthbound Control Center for all the science underway on the International
0:51.0	Space Station and join the space-based search for the most powerful
0:55.0	explosions in the universe with a member of the Fermi team.
0:59.1	I met my first guest outside a huge structure at Marshall.
1:03.0	How many of you enjoyed the Rocket Road Trip
1:04.9	my colleagues Casey Dreyer,
1:06.8	Jason Davis and Merck Boyen took in 2016?
1:10.2	One of the great people they met on that journey
1:12.1	was Andy Shore.
1:13.3	Andy is deputy manager for the spacecraft payload integration and evolution office.
1:18.8	He works to bring together the tremendous components of the space launch system that
1:23.8	gigantic rocket expected to lift off from Florida for the first time in
1:28.6	2019. We're the interface between the payload of the rocket and the rocket.
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