Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Leaves NASA

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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For well over three years, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan has worked directly with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to help coordinate and expand the myriad science efforts by the agency. We talk with her as she ends this remarkable tenure.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	NASA's just departed chief scientist Ellen Stophan this week on planetary radio.
0:06.0	Welcome. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.7	system and beyond. What does it mean to be chief scientist for what is probably the world's
0:21.4	most famous science agency.
0:24.0	What is Ellen Stofan most proud of across her three and a half years with the agency
0:28.6	and what is she looking forward to?
0:30.9	That and more is in our conversation coming up today. Bill Nye phones
0:35.6	home from halfway around the world with admiring words for Apollo astronaut
0:40.4	Gene Cernan as well as for Ellen.
0:43.0	Which is longer a year on Jupiter or the lifetime of this show?
0:48.0	Bruce Betts will reveal the thrilling answer in this week's what's up.
0:52.0	Been to the movies lately? Senior editor Emily
0:54.8	Loch Duwala has. Emily you called your January 11 review of hidden figures
0:59.7	the movie that is doing extremely well at the box office. Triumphant in the theater, sobering after.
1:06.8	You obviously like this movie a lot.
1:09.2	Why?
1:10.2	I liked it and so did my kids.
1:11.8	We have three very different protagonists, all of them computers for NACA. Computers back in the 50s and 60s were actual people who performed mathematical calculations for engineers working on problems.
1:25.2	And in this era there was a whole group of 20 black woman computers working at Langley in order
1:31.2	to do things like calculate the trajectories to send the first
1:35.0	astronauts into space. They're all very different. They have different life stories
1:39.4	but they all face the same challenges and they all in their unique way overcome them.
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