NASA’s Home for the Bleeding Edge: The 2019 NIAC Symposium

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program gathers its “fellows” each year to share what they’ve learned about some of the most fascinating science and engineering imaginable. Mat Kaplan visits with Program Executive Jason Derleth and seven leaders of funded studies. Astronaut Mae Jemison also attended and returns to Planetary Radio. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov passed away last week at 85. He is remembered and praised by space historian John Logsdon. All this, headlines from The Downlink, and Bruce Betts! Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1016-2019-niac-symposium-leonov.html

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0:00.0	Space innovation so crazy they just might work this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our
0:15.7	solar system and beyond.
0:17.9	I exaggerate.
0:19.7	Not all of the concepts, studies, and projects presented at this year's Niac Symposium were on
0:25.0	the bleeding edge.
0:26.8	But there wasn't one of them that bored this gearhead.
0:30.4	We'll share a sampling in minutes and you'll hear a conversation with the leader of the
0:35.0	NASA Innovative and Advanced Concepts Program, Jason Durlith.
0:39.4	I'll also talk with Nia Keynoter, astronaut, engineer, and MD, May Jemison.
0:45.3	Cosmonaut, artist and world citizen Alexei Leonov, passed away last week.
0:50.6	Space historian and policy expert John Logston met him a couple of times and
0:54.8	wrote about his front and center role in the Soviet space program. John will look
0:59.8	back with us right after a few headlines from around the solar system courtesy of
1:04.3	the down link. October 11th brought only the second edition of this Planetary
1:09.1	Science and Exploration Digest courtesy of my colleague Planetary Society editorial director and the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn. The wide-ringed gas giant now officially has 82
1:27.3	surpassing Jupiter 79 to become the Solar Systems current champion. Okay, it's not a contest. Both are likely to have
1:35.2	more and Jupiter probably has more in total. Want to help name Saturn's new moons?
1:40.9	There's a link, what else, in the downlink at planetary.org.
1:47.2	In other Saturn news, the Hubble Space Telescope has now been in space for an entire Saturn year.
1:54.0	10,764 Earth days, as I record this, or roughly 30 Earth years.
2:01.3	You can see how Hubble's view of Saturn has changed over that time in the
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