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Meet a veteran of the International Space Station! Special Guest Cady Coleman is a retired NASA astronaut and the author of "Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change." Learn what it takes to be a NASA astronaut. What do you want to know about living in space?
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In our first Mission Control Live! we’ll meet special guest Dr. Michael Wong, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at Carnegie Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory. He studies planetary atmospheres, habitability, biosignatures, and the emergence of life across the Universe. What do you want to know about life beyond the Earth?
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FEATURED GUESTS:
- Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer. He is the author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, the first biography of Leopold, which received a number of awards and was reissued in 2010 after its original publication in 1988. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
- Roberta L. Millstein is an Emerit Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Davis. Her research focuses on the philosophy of science, the history & philosophy of biology, and environmental ethics. Her book, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium, was published in 2024.
- Buddy Huffaker is the executive director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. His academic background is in landscape architecture and plant ecology, and he has helped grow the Foundation’s reach and impact for the last twenty-five years.
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Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired.
In addition to working on her PhD, astrobiologist Emilie Lafleche is also an analog astronaut. What’s that? Analog astronauts simulate multi-week Lunar and Martian missions so scientists can research the effects on humans and test technology before it’s launched into space. How do scientists prepare for space from Earth?
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Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired.
Dr. Julia Badger headed up the team that built Robonaut—a humanoid robot that helps humans explore space—for the ISS. Now, she’s the Autonomy and Vehicle Systems Manager (VSM) system manager for the Gateway program at NASA-Johnson Space Center, working to put our first space station in orbit around the Moon. How can robots make life better for humans everywhere in the Universe?
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