Small Steps, Giant Leaps
by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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- 🇺🇸US · Science#1855K to 30K
- 🇰🇷KR · Science#15100K to 300K
- 🇮🇳IN · Science#1081K to 10K
- 🇹🇭TH · Science#903K to 10K
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110K to 353K🇰🇷85%🇺🇸8%🇮🇳3%+2 more - Active Followers
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Space Nuclear Propulsion
Jun 15, 2026
22m 44s
Test Like You Fly
May 27, 2026
23m 31s
Soft Skills for Tough Missions
May 13, 2026
16m 24s
Tracking Launches: Views from a NASA Pilot
Apr 29, 2026
17m 11s
How NASA's Pandora Mission Unboxes Distant Worlds
Apr 19, 2026
12m 07s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/15/26 |  Space Nuclear Propulsion | Space nuclear power and propulsion engineering could play a key role in sending robots and humans to deep space, enabling faster and farther journeys. | 22m 44s | ||||||
| 5/27/26 |  Test Like You Fly✨ | engineering philosophytesting+4 | Erika Alvarez | NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration | — | test like you flyengineering+5 | — | 23m 31s | |
| 5/13/26 |  Soft Skills for Tough Missions✨ | soft skillsteamwork+3 | — | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | — | soft skillsteamwork+3 | — | 16m 24s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Tracking Launches: Views from a NASA Pilot✨ | NASAlaunch operations+3 | Shannon Gregory | NASA | Kennedy Space Center | NASApilots+4 | — | 17m 11s | |
| 4/19/26 |  How NASA's Pandora Mission Unboxes Distant Worlds✨ | NASAPandora mission+4 | — | NASAPandora mission | other solar systems | NASAPandora mission+3 | — | 12m 07s | |
| 3/18/26 |  Choreographing Astronaut Recovery✨ | astronaut recoveryspace travel+3 | Christine St. Germain | NASACommercial Crew Program | — | astronaut recoveryNASA+3 | — | 14m 41s | |
| 3/4/26 |  Dragonfly: Mission to Titan✨ | space explorationTitan+3 | — | NASA | TitanSaturn+1 | DragonflyTitan+6 | — | 20m 44s | |
| 3/4/26 |  Designing the Roadmap to Mars✨ | Mars explorationArtemis missions+3 | Nujoud Merancy | NASAStrategy and Architecture Office+1 | — | NASAArtemis+5 | — | 14m 04s | |
| 2/4/26 |  The Many Hats of NASA Engineer Jennifer Lu✨ | NASAaerospace engineering+3 | Jennifer Lu | NASACommercial Crew Program | International Space Station | NASAJennifer Lu+5 | — | 16m 13s | |
| 1/21/26 |  Bringing Back Supersonic Flight✨ | supersonic flightsonic booms+3 | Nils Larson | X-59NASA | — | supersonicX-59+5 | — | 25m 59s | |
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| 12/17/25 |  Sailing the Solar System✨ | solar sailspace technology+3 | — | NASA | Solar SystemSun | solar sailNASA+3 | — | 13m 22s | |
| 12/3/25 |  Simulating Moon and Mars Dust✨ | Moon dust simulationMars dust simulation+3 | Dr. Jennifer Edmunson | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | MoonMars+1 | MoonMars+5 | — | 15m 41s | |
| 11/19/25 |  NASA's Centennial Challenges Prize Program✨ | space explorationprize competition+3 | — | NASACentennial Challenges | U.S.86 countries | NASACentennial Challenges+4 | — | 20m 37s | |
| 9/18/25 |  6,000 Exoplanets and Counting✨ | exoplanetsastronomy+3 | — | NASA | — | exoplanetsNASA+3 | — | 22m 12s | |
| 9/3/25 |  NASA's Zero Gravity Research Facility | A steel vacuum chamber 50 stories deep at NASA’s Glenn Research Center lets researchers simulate near-weightlessness by letting test hardware freefall for 5.18 seconds. | 19m 07s | ||||||
| 8/20/25 |  Turning Space Data Into Sound | From black holes to star clusters, scientists are turning space data into sound with a process called sonification. Dr. Kimberly Arcand, visual scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, joins us to explore how data sonification lets more people experience the cosmos and give researchers a new way to interpret science one note at a time. | 26m 58s | ||||||
| 8/6/25 |  StarBurst: Gamma-ray Hunter | StarBurst, a satellite the size of a washing machine, aims to detect the initial blast of gamma-rays, the most powerful bursts of energy in the universe. These huge explosions can occur when dense neutron stars collide, forging metals like gold and platinum. These metals are some of the building blocks of planets — like Earth. | 19m 51s | ||||||
| 7/23/25 |  Hubble: An Engineering Marvel | The Hubble Space Telescope has changed humanity’s understanding of the universe. Now in orbit for 35 years, it remains a remarkable feat of engineering. | 23m 31s | ||||||
| 7/9/25 |  Fighting Wildland Fires with Drones | Fighting wildland fires by air at night is especially hazardous. NASA’s ACERO Project aims to make firefighting safer, day or night, with drones and smarter airspace management. | 11m 19s | ||||||
| 6/25/25 |  A New Era of X-ray Astronomy with IXPE | IXPE, or the Infrared X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is NASA’s first space telescope dedicated to studying X-ray polarization from extreme objects like black holes and quasars. | 26m 32s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 |  Risk Management at NASA | Big or small, we all take risks nearly every day. But how does NASA manage it? Dr. Mary Skow, NASA’s first agency risk management officer, explains. | 33m 38s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 |  NASA's Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project | NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project aims to accommodate the growing demand of traditional and emerging aircraft that share the friendly skies. | 30m 06s | ||||||
| 5/14/25 |  The Universe in Living Color with SPHEREx | NASA's SPHEREx mission will map 450 million galaxies like we’ve never seen before. | 27m 23s | ||||||
| 4/30/25 |  Episode 152: EZIE Does It | What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it. | 15m 49s | ||||||
| 4/16/25 |  Episode 151: Designing Missions | NASA’s design labs are where engineers develop concepts for missions and scientific instruments. | 16m 55s | ||||||
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5 placements across 5 markets.
Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.