What is Astronomy, Even? with NASA's Paul Geithner

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Paul Geithner is the Deputy Project Manager — Technical for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Paul joins Jonathan to give him a crash course in what the electro-magnetic spectrum is, how space debris can effect space programs, the vastness of space, his work with the James Webb Space Telescope, and more. Learn more about Paul’s work at https://jwst.nasa.gov/meet-geithner.html. He’s on Twitter @paulgeithner. Find the James Webb Space Telescope YouTube page @NASAWebbTelescope. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	B.M. Benito's not getting curious.
0:02.6	I'm Jonathan Benes and every week I sit down for a, you know, approximately a 30-minute
0:06.5	conversation, so this is a little bit more with a brilliant expert-terlin all about studying
0:10.2	that makes me curious.
0:11.4	This week, I'm curious about astronomy.
0:13.3	So I'm talking to the Deputy Project Manager, technical for the James Webb Space Telescope
0:17.2	at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Paul Geithner.
0:20.4	It's not about politics, everyone.
0:22.1	Enjoy.
0:23.1	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Benes.
0:28.4	We have a very major NASA engineer, realness episode for you today, and it's going to be
0:35.4	kind of like when Brian Boytono went back to the Olympics in 1994 after a very long
0:39.8	break and everyone thought he was going to nail it really hard, but like he had weights,
0:44.4	imaginary weights tied to his ankles.
0:45.8	I don't know that much about NASA, math.
0:48.6	I had hair color, like successfully 97% of the time, you know, which is not great for
0:55.3	simple addition, sometimes multiplication.
0:58.1	So we're really going to learn a lot today.
1:00.8	Welcome to Getting Curious, Paul Geithner, who is Tell us your gorgeous title.
1:06.0	I am the Deputy Project Manager, technical for the James Webb Space Telescope project,
1:12.8	which is James Webb Space Telescope project.
1:17.6	What's that story?
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