The Space Place


	Welcome to Space Place Live! Kate, Kyo, and Carlos (before he moved away) host their own talk show! Their guests are real scientists and engineers who work on really cool space and Earth missions. Join them and find out what it's like to work for NASA, how they got started in science or engineering, and what they like to do for fun.

	Our guest in this episode helped to catch the solar wind, bringing samples of the Sun back to Earth. Don Burnett is the principal investigator on the Genesis mission. He explains how the mission worked and what it is teaching us about how the solar system formed. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	How can a satellite stay put over the same spot on Earth? Learn from Andre Dress, one of the people in charge of building them. Find out all about the eyes in the sky that give us the big picture of weather on Earth and on the Sun–and why science is harder than science fiction Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Not all architects design buildings. In this episode, you will meet Linda Herrell, architect of space missions! Find out how a love of French and Spanish led her to a love of computers and space technology-and what artsy hobby she picked to use her special design skills. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Meet Michelle Thaller, an astronomer with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Find out what movie and what TV show first inspired Michelle to become an astronomer. You'll also learn Michelle's very favorite amazing fact about space. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Meet Donya Douglas, a thermal engineer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She always wanted to be an engineer. She never doubted that she could do it. Learn how her team found ways to keep three miniature spacecraft not too hot and not too cold in the harsh environment of space. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	All the way from Germany to chat with us is Dr. Karsten Danzmann, who works with Dr. Kip Thorne (see below) on the LISA mission. Find out how it was not school, but TV that inspired Karsten to explore the universe! Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Our guest is Dr. Chris Martin, a professor at CalTech and leader of the NASA space mission, GALEX! He's taken his love of map-making and exploration and uses it to map the universe and explore the birth of stars! Check it out! Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Meet our guest Deborah Vane. She's a physicist who always loved astronomy, came to NASA to work on a Mars robot lander mission, and then got interested in Earth studies too. Now she's a scientist on the CloudSat Mission and is here to tell us all about it. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.

	Our guest is Dr. Kip Thorne, astronomer and author of the popular book "Black Holes & Time Warps." We will find out what he's doing now, how he became a scientist, and what he likes to do for fun. Watch this episode. Read the transcript.