Casual Space

Jennifer Inman helps spacecraft enter the atmospheres of other worlds. She and the Scientifically Calibrated In-FLight Imagery (SCIFLI) team use a bunch of instruments on board a plane while it’s fly…

Rachel is from a newspaper family and started as a journalist, teacher, freelancer and exceptional writer. Then, Rachel joined Twitter, and started writing about NASA missions and soon became a story…

The Outer Space Treaty is vague. Rebekah believes there’s a way to encourage the international community and develop education to balance opportunities for everyone to use and benefit from the resour…

Dr. Sarah Imam teaches advanced physiology and environmental physiology at the Citadel. She helps describe for us on the podcast what our human body has to endure in extreme environments, including m…

Seeing a launch from a young age inspired a clear goal for Debi Tomek: a calling to work at NASA and help enable a sustainable human presence in space beyond Earth.

Working towards this goal is exact…

A 6th grade science teacher, a field trip to the Cosmosphere, lots of hard work, several advanced degrees, and a NASA internship has all been a influential part of Dr. Sarah Wallace’s journey.  Dr. S…

Kelly Larson has climbed mountains. Literally and figuratively.  

(Check out her TED talk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49CaCeC4C_Y)! 

As the CEO of Aquarian Space, there’s always challenges to be…

• PODCASTS!!! 
• • Casual Space Podcast!   I love #61 with Bill Nye and #65 with Matthew Dominick
• • Houston, We Have a Podcast – Mission Patches, Episode #130 
  • Houston, We Have a Podcast – Art and Sp…

Irene Woerner is no stranger to start ups (she’s built a few) and is a certified space expert; she was the principal investigator on research and ground software on the Pluto missions at NASA’s Jet P…

Beth sits down with NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick last week at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to discuss his work as an Artemis Generation astronaut. At the time of his selection as an Astronaut Candi…

Norah started photography in high school, from a camera her father gave her. By playing around with her camera and just shooting pictures, she fell in love with photography. Then she went to school t…

There’s no title big enough to hold the accomplishments and aspirations for Taylor Winkelman.  What has this woman NOT done? Just read her bio. Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. …

It seems like Dan Jacobs was made for his role as the International Relations Manager for NASA’s Gateway Program and the International Space Station. Within his NASA career, Dan has found a perfect b…

Beth shares a Casual Space conversation with the incredible Bill Nye! Together, they enjoy:

• Sharing the incredible success story of the Planetary Society’s Light Sail 2 (a spacecraft that is still s…

You know that teachers are already an intricate and massively important part of helping to educate (STEAM) and inspire student explorers and curious minds! And while some great PAYLOADS have gone fro…

Our nation’s space agency has experienced many incredible human feats (landing a human on the moon, walking in space, assembling an International Space Station, etc.)  as well as three very public ma…

Beth and Mat enjoyed sharing their Falcon Heavy Launch experience AND..

• Why this launch was the MOST spectacular folks have ever seen
• What Light Sail 2 is, and why it’s such a significant and inspir…

“We are addressing the problem of communications, being able to provide big data from small spacecraft.”  -Doug Stetson from FreeFall Aerospace  

Jason is the lead for Orion Crew Systems Integration at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. 

Human factors are always considered when designing a new spacecraft for the crew. Jason and his team consider EVE…