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Actor William Shatner on his new book, Star Trek and his travel to space
Posted on · The actor who played Captain Kirk made history and boldly went where few men have gone before.
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The Science Behind UFO Sightings And Possible Extraterrestrial Life
Posted on · UFOs are no longer something only covered by supermarket tabloids, but something that’s being taken a bit more seriously by experts.
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Catastrophic Theatre Produces A Tale Of Faith And Survival For The Holidays, Plus Composer Jimmy López Bellido Writes A Musical Love Letter To NASA
Posted on · Learn about a story of love, forgiveness and survival from a storm, and discover a symphony that reaches for the stars.
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Friday’s Show: Preventing College Dropouts, And Digging Up A New Dinosaur (Sept. 27, 2019)
Posted on · On Friday's show: Ensuring students don’t drop out of college because they lack money for food or housing, unearthing a new species of dinosaur, exploring the concepts of space travel in the movie Ad Astra, and hashing out The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of the week's news.
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New Planet Discovery Prompts Questions About Life on Other Planets
Posted on · (Above: This artist’s rendering depicts the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star. The cool, reddish star is about 40 light-years away from Earth. Image Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Here in Space City, we talk a lot about whatâs next in space travel and the role we […]
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Spinal Taps And Sleeping Sacks: Astronauts Try To Learn Why Vision Changes In Space
Posted on · NASA’s latest research connects astronauts on the International Space Station, cancer patients on a roller coaster, plane flight and high-tech sleeping sacks.
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Returning Astronaut Scott Kelly: One-Year ISS Mission Felt ‘Like I Lived There Forever’
Posted on · NASA’s Kelly just returned from a record-breaking year on the International Space Station.
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Event Focuses on Diversifying Houston’s Space Industry
Posted on · We talk with “Sci Guy” Eric Berger, Ars Technica’s Senior Space Editor, about the first annual Space Commerce Conference and Exposition, or SpaceCom, which takes place at the George. R. Brown Convention Center tomorrow through Thursday (Nov. 17-19, 2015). The conference and expo will explore how space technology is applied to other industries, including health […]
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100 Year Starship: Making Sure Human Space Travel Becomes a Reality
Posted on · The 100 Year Starship is an initiative to make sure progress continues toward human interstellar space travel. Its annual public symposium begins Thursday, and continues through the weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center. One of the key figures behind the initiative is Dr. Mae Jemison. She’s a former astronaut — the first African-American […]