Cosmic Radio Interview with Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton discussing the NASA Psyche Mission and the February night sky.

Greeting Space Lovers and welcome back to Cosmic Radio. We have a great show this month. In the first part of the show we find out "What's up in the February night sky" and learn about the upcoming NASA Artemis II moon-launch and the return of The United States to the Moon. Then in the second part of the show we celebrate the return of Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the Principal Investigator of NASA's Psyche Mission: A Journey to a Metal World! Dr. Elkins-Tanton is going to update us on the mission during its "cruise-phase". Check-out the following links that Dr. Elkins-Tanton mentions during the show: JPL Psyche Mission: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/ NASA Psyche Mission overview: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/mission-overview/ "Mission Ready-How to Build Teams That Perform Under Pressure" Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton Book- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lindy-elkins-tanton/mission-ready/9781541706033/ Tater's the Cat: https://youtu.be/k7B8lYjAOns?si=IGxjhTbJoAaJ6VOS Ways to Participate-Capstone courses- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/ways-to-participate/ Psyche Inspired- https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu/get-involved/psyche-inspired/…

People in this episode

Host: Elizabeth Garcia

Guest: Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Topics covered

• NASA Artemis II
• Psyche Mission
• February night sky
• space exploration
• astronomy
• Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Keywords

• NASA
• Psyche Mission
• Artemis II
• space exploration
• astronomy
• Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton
• February night sky

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA, JPL, NASA Psyche Mission

Books & works: Mission Ready-How to Build Teams That Perform Under Pressure

Places: Moon, February night sky

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