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The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2019

January 2019 - Red Planet Rovers and Insights

Get the scoop on the latest missions at Mars.

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February 2019 - The World of Scientific Ballooning

Human flight began with the balloon and today it is the last bastion of guerrilla science.

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March 2019 - The Golden Age of Exoplanet Exploration

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, several thousand more have been discovered.

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April 2019 - The Future is Cloudy: NASA’s Look at Clouds and Climate

Earth is the most-observed planet in our system.

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May 2019 - CubeSats & SmallSats

Some are the size of a toaster. Others a suitcase.

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June 2019 - Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Designing Tomorrow’s Space Missions Today

Walk through the lifecycle of a mission from its start as a crazy idea, to concept, to development, construction, testing and launch.

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July 2019 - Moon Struck! Celebrating Apollo’s 50th Anniversary

The Apollo program's "giant leap" took a decade of intense preparation to accomplish, and required a huge support system back on Earth throughout.

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August 2019 - Small Worlds, Big Science

Don’t let the name fool you. Our solar system’s small worlds pack big surprises.

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September 2019 - It Broke! A Story of How we Fixed It

Stories of how we repair and save missions when spacecraft are millions if not billions of miles away.

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October 2019 - Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% of the Universe

All the material we can see is just a small fraction of the universe. The rest, a full 95 percent, is invisible and mysterious.

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November 2019 - Looking Home: OCO-3 and Science from the ISS

Learn about how we use the International Space Station as a platform for Earth Science Research.

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