Eleanor & Lily ask: What if we could turn off gravity? (w/ Prabal Saxena)

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🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We are joined by planetary scientist and NASA astronomer Prabal Saxena, who helps Cthunkle learn about gravity and the amazing James Webb Space Telescope, which launched on Christmas Day, December 25th, 2021.

Lessons include: science and discovery can take time, and we can’t let frustration and impatience allow us to make bad decisions; there are many paths to our goals, and some of those paths may lead us in new and exciting directions!

You can learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope by visiting jwst.nasa.gov and find out more about our amazing guest, Prabal Saxena, at prabalsaxena.com. You can watch the launch video right here.

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1:27.6	Hey there folks and welcome back to What If World, the show where you are questions and ideas
1:32.0	inspire off the cuff stories. I'm Mr. Rarig your host and I am really really excited to bring you
1:38.5	our guest today. He is a planetary scientist and astronomer at Goddard, which is the space flight
1:45.6	center if you don't already know. His name is Proble Saxena. Hey, Rubble, I also learned
1:52.7	you're an astronomy ambassador at the American Astronomy Society. You help mentor up and coming
1:58.6	astronomers. You've even worked with kids teaching astronomy too, right? Yeah, actually when I was
2:03.4	in graduate school, I would go and work with elementary school kids. So I get to talk to them
2:07.6	astronomy about physics, about exploring planets and other fun places and all these other really
2:12.8	cool topics. It was a really awesome experience. That's super cool. You work at NASA and it's a really
2:19.8	exciting time in astronomical history on December 25th of 2021. You all launched the James Webb
2:28.4	Space Telescope. Can you tell us about it? The James Webb Space Telescope is going to be this really
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