This Week @NASA, Oct. 14, 2022

En la NASA, nos estamos preparando para seguir adentrándonos en el sistema solar, y conocer más sobre los efectos del espacio en el cuerpo humano es fundamental. Aprende más en este episodio, que reúne al astronauta de la NASA Frank Rubio desde el espacio con el científico Jaime ...  Show more

Curation experts at the Johnson Space Center discuss what happens to the asteroid samples after OSIRIS-REx lands in Utah on Sunday, Sept. 24. HWHAP Episode 306 

NASA's DART mission aims to subtly alter the orbit of one small asteroid around another -- and thus change the trajectory of objects outside Earth for the first time. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff: https://science.howstuffworks.com/dart-nasas-asteroid-redirecting-missi ...  Show more

If an asteroid were hurling through space, making a beeline straight to Earth, how would humans prevent it from doing what it did to the dinosaurs? Would we bomb it? Would we shoot lasers at it like a scene from Hollywood's latest sci-fi flick? Well, the folks at NASA have design ...  Show more

Last year’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

NASA’s latest mission, DART hit the headlines this week after the space agency’s satellite successfully collided with a far off asteroid. The mission acts as a demonstration of Earth’s first planetary defence system. Jon Amos, one of BBC’s Science correspondents, talks Roland thr ...  Show more