NASA EDGE Audiofiles

Go behind the scenes to listen to the entire interview with Carina Alden about her work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Go behind the scenes to listen to the entire interview with Aleida Higginson about her work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA EDGE joins the Heliophysics Big Year celebration from Sunspot, New Mexico; home of the Sunspot Solar Observatory! It is a year of awesome solar events, opportunities to study space weather, and witness new scientific milestones with NASA missions. All of this is happening during Solar Max, the pinnacle of solar activity in the solar cycle. Joining the show are Nicky Fox from NASA Headquarters, Antti Pulkkinen from NASA Goddard, and Bob Baer from Southern Illinois University – the crossroads of the eclipses. So, grab your sun screen, safe solar viewing glasses, and kick things off with NASA EDGE and the Heliophysics Big Year!

NASA EDGE provides live prelaunch coverage for the PACE mission on L-1. We have special guests, PACE interviews, launch update, action figures, and more. Join us live!

Get ready for the Psyche launch with NASA EDGE! We cover Psyche, DSOC, and Mic Woltman of LSP. I mean, what else do you need ahead of SpaceX Falcon Heavy blast off!

Launching satellites is super complex and it is awesome to see how university, college, and high school students are going all in with CubeSats.  In this episode of NASA EDGE, we’ll hear how NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, the University Nanosatellite Program, and many others are working together to help students develop, build, launch and operate their own small satellites to conduct Lunar, search and rescue, and even biological missions.  From the Missions Concepts Program to Thomas Jefferson High School, these kids are taking DYI to low earth orbit and beyond.

NASA is ready to launch TEMPO, its first instrument on a commercial satellite primarily focused on gathering hourly daytime data on air pollutants. This takes spectrometry to a whole new geosynchronous level. And if you like big words, you’ll love the game show, NOT MY TEMPO. All this and more on NASA EDGE: TEMPO! Be sure to check it out!

Get ready for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission with NASA EDGE. With guests from NASA, Thales Alenia Space, and Launch Services, we cover everything you need to follow this critical earth science mission. SWOT will measure water height on both oceans and fresh waters sources like rivers and lakes to give scientists an unprecedented understanding of how our water table works.

NASA EDGE scores a hat trick with the Best of Live JPSS-2 Tower Rollback show featuring three amazing missions and milestones. First, JPSS-2, NOAA’s ongoing mission to provide essential data an imagery to improve weather prediction. Second, LOFTID, NASA’s technology demonstration mission featuring an inflatable decelerator! And finally, with this launch NASA’s Launch Services celebrates its 100th mission! Plus, there are a few surprise offerings from NASA EDGE as well

Artemis I is launching soon, and even NASA has its own front-row seat for the launch with Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI). During launch and recovery, the NASA SCIFLI team will capture super high-fidelity imagery of the rocket and parachutes on re-entry across multiple spectrums. Join NASA EDGE as they hear first-hand from the SCIFLI team about how this imagery will help NASA, Artemis, and even future missions operate safely and efficiently. Also, we get the latest on SCIFLI’s newest instrument, SCIFLI Airborne Multispectral Imager (SAMI), flying aboard NASA’s WB-57.

Join NASA EDGE as they cover the launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft live from Vandenberg Air Force Base.  Special guests include NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, SMAP Project System Engineer Shawn Goodman and Lt Col Brande Walton and Joseph Sims from the Air Force.  No word on the Co-Host's whereabouts.

Chris continues his talk with more members of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) team.  Enthusiasm is high ahead of their upcoming launch.

Chris sits down with members of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) team to talk about their work, experiences and expectations for this groundbreaking engineering achievement and scientific mission.

NASA EDGE travels to Belgium for the Mission X 2014 International Closing Event.  Special guests include European Space Agency Astronaut Frank De Winne, Mission X Students and more!

NASA EDGE interviews NASA Kennedy Space Center Directer Bob Cabana during their coverage of SpaceX CRS-3. Find out about commercial space, future NASA launches and lounge singers!

NASA EDGE webcasts live from Vandenberg AFB for the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO) launch.

NASA EDGE checks out the experiments heading to the International Space Station and the CubeSats being launched during SpaceX's 3rd resupply mission.

NASA EDGE talks with the MMS Team about the final tests for the satellites before they head to NASA Kennedy.

NASA EDGE talks Space Communication and Navigation while covering the TDRS-L Launch atop the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center.

NASA EDGE talks Space Communication and Navigation while covering the TDRS-L Launch atop the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center.

NASA EDGE visits NASA Ames during their telerobics demontration with K-10 and the ISS.

NASA EDGE explores three more NASA Technology Demonstration Missions; Deep Space Atomic Clock, Solar Sails and the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator.

Enjoy highlights from the LADEE Launch with NASA EDGE and many of their guests, including NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden.

NASA EDGE joins the Mission X Team as they finish another successful year of training like an astronaut.

Check out highlights from NASA EDGE's live coverage of the 2013 Regolith Mining Competition and let the regolith fly!

NASA EDGE interviews Bernardo Patti about the Orion Service Module being built by the European Space Agency.

NASA EDGE and special guest host Tiffany Nail explore the latest developments in nanosat technology at the 10th Annual CubeSat Development Workshop.  MagnetoStar-1, however, still won't fly.

NASA EDGE and Special Guest Geoff Notkin speak with NASA Scientists and experts around the world at the 2013 Planetary Defense Conference about Near Earth Objects and their potential threat to Earth.

NASA EDGE checks out NASA's new Space Launch System [SLS] which will help astronauts explore beyond Low Earth Orbit.  Will the Co-Host's SLS pass the test?

NASA EDGE Host Chris Giersch talks with NASA Heliophysicist Doug Rowland about how VISIONS will help scientists better understand auroras.

NASA EDGE talks to Sarah Daugherty, a Wallops Flight Facility Test Director, about what it takes to manage a successful rocket launch.

NASA EDGE presents highlights from their live coverage of this year's celebration, Sun-Earth Days: Solar Max-Storm Warning.

NASA EDGE revisits MMS for an in depth look at the greatest mystery of the magnetosphere; magnetic reconnection.

Find out how NASA is helping students fly their own satellites.  Plus, the Co-Host pitches his very own CubeSat concept.

NASA EDGE takes the role of investigator to an entirely new level as they examine three of NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions.

NASA wants to reduce the impact of the "boom" in super sonic flight and make traveling beyond the speed of sound more common.  Find out how on NASA EDGE.

NASA EDGE visits the Arizona Science and Astronomy Expo while the Co-Host focuses on preventing the mysterious Ocular Ring.

NASA EDGE talks Orion and its preparation for Exploration Flight Test-1 [EFT-1] while the Co-Host explores an interesting new partnership.

NASA EDGE, or at least part of the NASA EDGE team, interviews Lesa Roe about NASA's role in Human Space exploration.

NASA EDGE has been nominated for Best Video Podcast.  Find out how you can help them win from Luke Wilson.  Go online and vote.

Enjoy highlights from NASA EDGE's live coverage of Curiosity's landing on Mars from MediaCityUK in Salford, United Kingdom.

NASA EDGE learns about the Sample Analysis at Mars [SAM] instrument currently operating on the Martian surface.

Jim Garvin discusses Curiosity's unique opportunity to learn about Mars and if life could have existed on the red planet.

NASA EDGE covers the Transit of Venus from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Franklin vistis NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to talk to Jaret Matthews about Curiosity's unique robotic capability to explore the Martian surface.

Hampton University teams up with NASA to help teachers, students and NASA EDGE understand the relationship between dust and climate change.

NASA EDGE visits the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn more about Curiosity and how it will function on the red planet.

NASA EDGE gets underneath the heat shield to learn about MEDLI, the Mars Science Laboratory Entry Descent and Landing Instrumentation.

NASA EDGE presents highlights of the 2012 Lunabotics Mining Competition from the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex.

NASA Planetary Scientist, Richard Vondrack, discusses the dynamic relationship between the Sun and the planets in our Solar System with NASA EDGE.

Solar Physicist, Dean Pesnell, talks about the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) and the Transit of Venus with the NASA EDGE.

Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, talks Transit of Venus with NASA EDGE.

NASA EDGE interviews NASA Planetary Scientist Gordon Chin for the 2012 Transit of Venus.

NASA EDGE Interviews Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, ahead of the Transit of Venus.

NASA EDGE visits Cumberland School in East London for Mission X 2012!

NASA EDGE looks at the development of the propulsion system for the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission.

NASA EDGE races to interview NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden.

NASA EDGE combines recreation and research as they look back over 2011.

NASA EDGE covers the Green Flight Challenge and witnesses an aviation first, true electric flight!

NASA keeps the pool open all year round.  Time for Orion to make another splash!

NASA EDGE covers the historic final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis!

Interested in adding a second level to your Habitat Demonstration Unit?  Check out the awesome student designs.  All Co-Host approved!

Lunar regolith simulant flies as NASA EDGE covers the 2nd annual Lunabotics Mining Competition!

NASA EDGE covers the 25th and final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour!

NASA EDGE learns how Mission X helps kids around the world learn about fitness while training like an astronaut.

NASA EDGE celebrates Sun Earth Day 2011 with the twitterazzi and a few of our favorite solar scientists!  SPF approved.

NASA EDGE prepares for life in Space by investigating dust mitigation and interstellar gardening at NASA Kennedy's Space Life Sciences Lab.

NASA EDGE investigates NASA's most ambitious look at the Earth's radiation belt to date; the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission.

NASA EDGE looks back at the highlights of 2010 and makes a few key goals for the new year.

Jump on board NASA's A-Train, the premier constellation of Earth observing satellites.

NASA EDGE gets a GRIP on tropical storms and hurricane development.

This year's D-RATS test features two rovers.  And as everyone knows, twice the science equals twice the fun.

The future of Aeronautics at NASA involves excellent in-flight and environmental upgrades... however, no drink coupons - not even for the Co-Host.

It isn't exactly ISS valet service, but NASA STORRM should provide major docking improvements for future flights to the Space Station.

NASA EDGE immerses themselves in another extreme analog, NEEMO. It isn't quite 20,000 leagues, but it is clearly underwater.

High winds didn't dampen the Orion team's enthusiasm or the succes of the Orion Pad Abort 1 Flight Test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Jacky and Franklin go behind the scenes with Robonaut 2.  They even learn the super secret Robonaut handshake.

Catch the best of NASA EDGE Live from this year's culminating solar celebratory event, Sun-Earth Day 2010.

NASA EDGE talks with both NASA and ATK engineers about the Development Motor Test Firing in Promontory, Utah.

NASA EDGE previews the development of Orion's Launch Abort System and discovers Chris's fascination with smocks.

NASA EDGE visits the brilliantly restored Mercury Mission Control Center exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

NASA EDGE follows the Desert RATS around Black Point Lava Flow, AZ during their 14 day analog field test of the Lunar Electric Rover [LER].

After multiple delays, Ares 1-X makes its historic flight live on NASA EDGE (Part 2).

Chris, Blair, Franklin and Jacky cover the historic launch of Ares 1-X [part 1].

NASA EDGE joins Astronaut Mike Massimino and Twitter phenomenon (@Astro_Mike) as he returns home to the Big Apple to talk about STS-125.

NASA EDGE crashes the Apollo XII anniversary celebration for a little after party rocket experience.

It isn't safe to stare at the Sun for you or the NASA EDGE team, but SDO will be able to do it with ease 24/7.

NASA EDGE celebrates the 40th anniversary for Apollo XI by interviewing NASA Apollo Engineer Ed Kilgore.

Whether you're working on Orion Feng Shui or docking with the ISS, NASA EDGE explores the latest in Orion Simulators from Lockheed Martin and NASA.

Far from point and shoot, HYTHIRM's Cast Glance Crew have turned shooting infrared images of the Shuttle into an art form.

From Shuttle launch to breakthrough research during landings, NASA EDGE covers the latest, greatest mission to Hubble; STS-125.

NASA EDGE taks a close look at NASA's first step in the return to the Moon, LRO and LCROSS.  Chris, Blair and Franklin interview both teams and round out the show with a little bit of Launch Services Program.

NASA EDGE announces the winner for the 2009 Mission Madness Tournament

Blair and Franklin take a quick look at the Crew Module and Launch Abort System for Ares 1-X with Deputy Project Manager Jonathan Cruz.

NASA EDGE presents the 2009 NASA Mission Madness Vodcast with special guests Miles O'Brien, Keith Cowing and Melvin Ferebee.  Let the trash talking begin as we determine NASA's greatest mission of all time.

NASA EDGE heads to NASA Kennedy to take a look at several pieces of the Constellation program. Plus viewer voice mail with Sten the Intern.

Chris interviews the NASA team working on the Small Pressurized Rover [SPR].  Blair is lost in No-CoHost, AZ.

Chris, Blair and Franklin visit the regatta of regolith at Moses Lake to check out NASA's latest lunar lineup.

It slices!  It dices!  Not really, but the Lunar Surface Manipulator System (LSMS), or NASA's Lunar Robotic Arm as the Co-Host calls it, is one potential workhorse for NASA's Lunar Outpost.