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Weekly Space Hangout

The Weekly Space Hangout with Fraser Cain and our team of Journalists brings you the latest in space news as well as interviews with special guests from the space and science community. This podcast is funded through Patreon.com/CosmoQuestX and produced out of the Planetary Science Institute.

Science Astronomy
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
55 minutes
Episodes
81
Years Active
2021 - 2023
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Weekly Space Hangout: June 2, 2021 – Advances In Warp Drive Technology Research with Dr. Mario Borunda

Weekly Space Hangout: June 2, 2021 – Advances In Warp Drive Technology Research with Dr. Mario Borunda

This week we welcome Dr. Mario Borunda to the show. In his recent article published on EarthSky.com, Mario discusses advancements in warp drive technology research. You can read his article, "Warp Dr…

00:52:02  |   Fri 04 Jun 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: May 26, 2021 – Looking for Microbial Life in Space With Dr. Jay L. Nadeau

Weekly Space Hangout: May 26, 2021 – Looking for Microbial Life in Space With Dr. Jay L. Nadeau

This week we welcome Dr. Jay L. Nadeau to the Weekly Space Hangout. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Physics department at Portland State University and the founder of the Nadeau Lab (https://mot…

00:49:55  |   Fri 28 May 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: May 19, 2021 – Robotics on Mars with Dr. Ethan Schaler

Weekly Space Hangout: May 19, 2021 – Robotics on Mars with Dr. Ethan Schaler

This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Ethan Schaler to the Weekly Space Hangout. Ethan is a Robotics Mechanical Engineer in the Robotic Actuation and Sensing Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborato…

00:51:52  |   Sun 23 May 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: May 12, 2021 — Exploring Mars with

Weekly Space Hangout: May 12, 2021 — Exploring Mars with "Professional Martian" Dr. Tanya Harrison

This week we are excited to welcome "Professional Martian" Dr. Tanya Harrison to the WSH. Tanya is a respected Mars expert who worked as a geoscientist and mission operations specialist on multiple N…

00:54:51  |   Sat 15 May 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: May 5, 2021 – Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, UConn

Weekly Space Hangout: May 5, 2021 – Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, UConn

This week we aired Fraser's prerecorded interview with Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Ron received his B.S., M.S.…

01:04:25  |   Thu 06 May 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: April 28, 2021 – Taking to the HI-SEAS with Chelsea Gohd

Weekly Space Hangout: April 28, 2021 – Taking to the HI-SEAS with Chelsea Gohd

This week we are excited to welcome Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd, Senior Writer at Space.com, to the WSH. Chelsea writes articles and creates, scripts, and hosts videos about science topics ranging from cl…

00:53:02  |   Sat 01 May 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: April 21, 2021 –

Weekly Space Hangout: April 21, 2021 – "TREX-ing" Around the Moon with Dr. Amanda Hendrix

This week we are airing Fraser's pre-recorded interview with Dr. Amanda Hendrix, Senior Scientist at PSI. Amanda studies solar system bodies in ultraviolet wavelengths and is the Director/PI of the N…

00:59:25  |   Thu 22 Apr 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: April 14, 2021 – White Dwarf Binary Systems with Dr. Ken Shen

Weekly Space Hangout: April 14, 2021 – White Dwarf Binary Systems with Dr. Ken Shen

This week we are very pleased to welcome Dr. Ken Shen, assistant staff researcher in the UC Berkeley astronomy department, to the Weekly Space Hangout. Ken studies the astrophysics of white dwarfs in…

00:55:09  |   Thu 15 Apr 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: April 7, 2021 —

Weekly Space Hangout: April 7, 2021 — "The Disordered Cosmos" with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

This week we are very excited to welcome Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to the Weekly Space Hangout. Chanda is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender stu…

01:00:13  |   Fri 09 Apr 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: March 31, 2021 – News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout: March 31, 2021 – News Roundup!

Yup - another week with no guest scheduled (we are working on it though, I promise) but fear not - I know the team will fill the hour with a slew of amazing stories!!

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00:55:22  |   Sat 03 Apr 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: March 24, 2021 – Looking for Water on the Moon with Dr. Casey Honniball

Weekly Space Hangout: March 24, 2021 – Looking for Water on the Moon with Dr. Casey Honniball

This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Casey Honniball to the WSH. Casey is a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and has extensive experience in observing, in…

00:51:21  |   Sat 27 Mar 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: March 17, 2021 – News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout: March 17, 2021 – News Roundup!

No guest was scheduled for this week yet, but there is nothing at all wrong with spending the hour catching up on the news!

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00:50:10  |   Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: March 10, 2021 – Exoplanets with Dr. David Kipping

Weekly Space Hangout: March 10, 2021 – Exoplanets with Dr. David Kipping

This week we are extremely pleased to welcome Dr. David Kipping, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, to the WSH. David researches extrasolar planets and moons, including their im…

00:55:59  |   Sat 13 Mar 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: March 3, 2021 – Dr. Nicholas Castle, MSL Mission Science Team

Weekly Space Hangout: March 3, 2021 – Dr. Nicholas Castle, MSL Mission Science Team

This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Nicholas Castle from the MSL/Curiosity Mission Science Team to the WSH.

Nick has been a rock-collector and space enthusiast for as long as he can remember. He …

00:55:13  |   Sat 06 Mar 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: Melissa Thorpe, Interim Head of Spaceport Cornwall

Weekly Space Hangout: Melissa Thorpe, Interim Head of Spaceport Cornwall

This week we are very pleased to be airing Fraser's pre-recorded interview with Melissa Thorpe, Interim Head of Spaceport Cornwall.

Melissa is the main liaison for industry, military, Government, med…

00:58:04  |   Sat 27 Feb 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: Joseph Mallozzi, TV Producer, Writer, and Showrunner

Weekly Space Hangout: Joseph Mallozzi, TV Producer, Writer, and Showrunner

This week we are excited to welcome Joseph Mallozzi to the Weekly Space Hangout. Although you may not know his name, most of us certainly recognize — and love — many of the television shows Joe has p…

00:54:12  |   Thu 11 Feb 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Jani Radebaugh Discusses the Dragonfly Mission

Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Jani Radebaugh Discusses the Dragonfly Mission

This week we are joined by Dr. Jani Radebaugh, Planetary Scientist from Brigham Young University. Jani's field work specializes in finding analogues to other planets here on Earth. She is a Science T…

01:01:02  |   Thu 04 Feb 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Ann Marie Cody from the SETI Institute

Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Ann Marie Cody from the SETI Institute

Tonight we are very excited to welcome Dr. Ann Marie Cody from the SETI Institute to the WSH. In her own words, Ann Marie searches for "the weird." Young stars exhibit some pretty bizarre behaviors, …

00:57:29  |   Thu 28 Jan 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: Solar System Superhighways with Dr. Aaron Rosengren and Di Wu

Weekly Space Hangout: Solar System Superhighways with Dr. Aaron Rosengren and Di Wu

This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Aaron Rosengren and Di Wu to the Weekly Space Hangout. Their research team recently identified gravitational interactions which have produced a superhighway ne…

00:54:17  |   Thu 21 Jan 2021
Weekly Space Hangout: January 13, 2021 — Alberto Caballero: A Potential Source for the WOW! Signal?

Weekly Space Hangout: January 13, 2021 — Alberto Caballero: A Potential Source for the WOW! Signal?

This week we are excited to welcome Alberto Caballero, host of the Exoplanets YouTube channel, to the Weekly Space Hangout. In November 2020, arXiv published his (non-peer reviewed) paper in which Al…

00:54:01  |   Thu 14 Jan 2021
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