Sinopsis
Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.
Episodios
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Setting Space Policy
17/02/2025The President helps set NASA’s agenda and determine what our nation’s space goals will be.
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Whatever Your Mood
14/02/2025Check out NASA’s spacy Valentines and no matter what color your mood ring is today, you might just find something to match what you’re feeling.
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Chocolate Cravings
13/02/2025If you have a chocolate craving, you’re in good company. Americans will consume about 58 million pounds of chocolate in the next few days.
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Wherever the Sun Shines
12/02/2025While rolling out a path to future space travel, these state-of-the-art solar arrays can also be infused into commercial applications wherever the sun shines.
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Shock Absorbing Technology
10/02/2025NASA’s advanced shock-absorbing technologies have become the gold standard for helmets regardless of whose logo is printed on the side.
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Designed to Do
07/02/2025Robotics systems engineers create and test the complex algorithms and operations software that allow robots to do what they were designed to do.
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Looking Earthward
06/02/2025Curiosity has captured blue Martian sunsets, passing asteroids, and images of Mars’ two moons Phobos and Deimos as they transited across the Sun.
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Traversing Mars
05/02/2025Mobility technology is important because these rovers that go to the Moon and Mars have very different terrain that they need to traverse.
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Planetary Defenders
04/02/2025NASA took the high-stakes world of planetary defense to the Sundance Film Festival to highlight its upcoming documentary, Planetary Defenders.
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Shadow Play
03/02/2025People looked for shadows yesterday on Groundhog Day, but NASA researchers chase shadows across the universe every day.
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Local Pollution
31/01/2025When particles from local pollution get caught up in the atmosphere, they may impact humans in other states miles away.
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Oral Histories
30/01/2025Collecting oral histories is a valuable tool to preserve institutional memory, filling in the gaps when documentation is scarce.
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Calculating Lunar New Year
29/01/2025The Lunar New Year begins sometime between January 21st and February 20th each year. But how is that date determined?
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The First American in Orbit
28/01/2025In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.
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A Lunar Pipeline
27/01/2025Imagine a lunar pipeline built by robots that could transport oxygen to future Moon bases.
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Generations of Dreamers
24/01/2025Meia’s story, in the graphic novel, Gearhart Legacies, was created to inspire future generations of dreamers to become outstanding engineers.
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Accepting the Challenge
23/01/2025Space exploration is perilous. Yet NASA astronauts accept the challenge bravely.
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Paying Tribute
22/01/2025Many of the guests at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex take time to honor our fallen astronauts at the Center’s Space Mirror Memorial.
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Exploring Triton
21/01/2025Using today’s propulsion technology means a trip to Neptune still takes about twelve years.