Made of Stars
Made of Stars is a look at everything in space exploration from programs and vehicles on Earth to discoveries made just out of our atmosphere and into deep space. Space enthusiast Wes Carroll interviews executive director of CSU's Coca-Cola Space Science center Dr. Shawn Cruzen each week with new episodes published Thursday mornings.
Georgia Association of Broadcasters winner for Best Podcast Series at the 2022 Gabby Awards
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Voice Over: Joe Earl Williams
Original Music: Graham Hobson
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 244
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
No, Turkey Isn't Moist in Space
Astronauts aboard the ISS shared a video of themselves opening up their Thanksgiving MREs in space and revaled what their feast would include. There's a strange smell aboard the ISS and its coming fr…
00:32:36 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
SpaceX Doesn't Catch the Booster with the President-elect Watching
With a group of VIPs watching, SpaceX was not able to catch the booster for its latest Super HEavy Launch. Optus-X was launched by SpaceX Sunday, but what is it? SpaceWeather.com wants to hear from y…
00:45:09 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Electricity from Space?!
Iceland is preparing to receive solar power from a satellite that is beamed down to Earth. Uranus' moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface. Plus let's talk about quasars and super massive …
00:32:58 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Crew-9 Had to Board Their Dragon and Move It
The Crew-9 astronauts aboard the ISS all boarded their Dragon capsule so they could move it to another docking port to allow a delivery to be made. SpaceX dazzled with its booster catch but that was …
00:34:29 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
Celebrating Halloween and Podcast #200
NASA has regained communication with Voyager 1. Perseverance gets a new look and photographs of an asteroid crater on Mars. New data shows methane rich crust on Titan. A Crew-8 astronaut is reportedl…
00:34:20 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
SpaceX Crew-8 Wasn't Stuck Either
SpaceX Crew-8 is on its way home and in spite of reports, it wasn't stuck in space. SpaceX has rolled out its next Heavy Booster. An X-Class solar flare was recorded last night and the region that pr…
00:32:12 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
A Second Wave of Aurora... But Could There Be a Third?!
We warned you that a second wave of aurora could be coming on last week's show and it did. And there's a chance a third wave could be coming as well. Comet T-ATLAS continues to dazzle in the night ti…
00:45:43 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Tonight!
Severe geomagnetic storms could produce another night of auroral activity like what we experienced in May. Also, there are now two comets lighting up the night sky over the next few days. The HERA sp…
00:30:36 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Starliner Astronauts Now Officially Have a Ride Home
The SpaceX Crew-9 mission has launched and docked with the ISS and the 2 Starliner astronauts have seats for a ride home in February. The two NASA astronauts who were bumped from the Crew-9 mission h…
00:37:20 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
The Captain Armband Has Been Passed on ISS
Hurricane Helene has delayed the launch of Crew-9. Russia's Soyuz returned home Monday bringing to Earth Oleg Kononenko who now holds the record for most experienced space-flier. The cosmonaut was in…
00:39:51 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
What If an Astronaut Needs Surgery in Space?
This week, Shawn is off and Wes responds to a question sent in by a listener who wants to know what would happen if an astronaut aboard the ISS needed surgery.
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00:22:51 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
A New Dawn for Commercial Space Missions
Polaris Dawn has completed its spacewalk. Starliner successfully returned to Earth. October will give us comet A3. WASP-76b has iron winds and rain.
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00:32:15 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Starliner Prepares to Return Home
Boeing's Starliner will return home this weekend with its astronauts still on board the ISS. SpaceX will launch its Crew-9 mission later this month with empty seats to return the Starliner astronauts…
00:32:16 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
Astronaut Cady Coleman Joins Us
Retired astronaut talks with us to talk about appearing at Dragon Con, her book Sharing Space, her documentary The Longest Goodbye, and her incredible career as an astronaut.
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00:35:05 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Doritos, a Milky Way and a Glass of Tang
The Polaris Dawn Mission is preparing to launch on Tuesday and taking with it some space friendly Doritos. NASA has issued a a FAQ about the Starliner mission and in it they say t hat the astronauts …
00:39:02 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Liquid Water on Mars... Could That Mean?
Data from the Mars Insight Lander has revealed oceans of water beneath the surface of Mars. A severe STEVE was detected this week and seen in Texas. Jupiter and Mars are dancing together in the morni…
00:43:30 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Okay, So Maybe They're Actually Stuck
The Starliner crew may be catching a ride home with SpaceX in February. SpaceX will talk a commercial crew to a very high orbit to do a space walk soon. Chinese megaconstellation launch has created a…
00:39:30 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Live from the Kennedy Space Center for Artemis 2 Part 2
We took Made of Stars mobile this week for the arrival of the SLS Core Stage arrival at Kennedy Space Center. Part 2 this week, Wes and Shawn talk about their Wednesday experiences of seeing the core…
01:03:53 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Live from the Kennedy Space Center for Artemis 2 Part 1
We took Made of Stars mobile this week for the arrival of the SLS Core Stage arrival at Kennedy Space Center. Part 1 this week, Wes and Shawn talk about the Tuesday arrival and interviewed Artemis 2 …
00:44:34 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Bolides Over Manhattan
New Yorkers were treated to a fireworks show of sorts when a beach-ball sized meteor passed through t he sky. NASA will re-evaluate scedhuled trips for astronauts aboard the Falcon 9 after a rocket f…
00:39:16 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
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