Small Steps, Giant Leaps

NASA’s technical workforce put boots on the Moon, tire tracks on Mars, and the first reusable spacec

Episodes

Total: 145

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 64, Space Communications and Navigation
2021/7/14

NASA Space Communications and Navigation Chief Engineer Neil Mallik discusses how SCaN keeps the uni

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 63, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
2021/6/30

OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta discusses the NASA mission to near-Earth asteroid B

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
2021/6/16

NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dyn

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 61, Transforming Assessment of Unsteady Aerodynamics
2021/6/2

NASA's Nettie Roozeboom discusses a new state-of-the-art technique to measure unsteady aerodynamics

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly
2021/5/19

Dragonfly Principal Investigator Zibi Turtle discusses NASA's planned rotorcraft-lander mission to T

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 59, Spacecraft Window Design
2021/5/5

NASA Spacecraft Window Design Expert Lynda Estes discusses the evolution of windows that give humans

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory
2021/4/21

SOFIA Project Scientist Naseem Rangwala discusses the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astrono

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 57, Shuttle Program Closeout Complexities
2021/4/7

NASA's Johnny Nguyen discusses insight gained through closeout of the Space Shuttle Program.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 56, Model-based Systems Engineering
2021/3/24

NASA's Terry Hill and Jessica Knizhnik discuss the agency's transition to model-based systems engine

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission
2021/3/10

Psyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting t

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program
2021/2/24

NASA Astrophysicist and Pioneers Program Lead Scientist Michael Garcia discusses the new program’s f

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 53, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
2021/2/10

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Bob Balaram discusses the first experimental aircraft fligh

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 52, Mars Perseverance Rover Science
2021/1/26

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan discusses science objective

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 51, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign
2021/1/13

NASA Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Deputy Lead Shivanjli Sharma discusses the "third revol

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 50, Futuristic Space Technologies
2020/12/9

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Executive Jason Derleth discusses visionary concepts that

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 49, NEEMO Case Study Deconstructed
2020/11/24

NASA’s Bill Todd and Joyce Abbey and retired Astronaut Nicole Stott discuss NEEMO and a new case stu

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 48, Mars Landing Retropropulsion Simulation
2020/11/11

NASA's Michelle Munk, Ashley Korzun and Eric Nielsen discuss the impact of state-of-the-art computin

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity
2020/10/28

International Space Station Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the complexity of the orbiting l

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 46, ISS 20 - Living in Space
2020/10/13

American Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson discusses 20 years of continuous human presence on the Inter

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 45, Digital Transformation
2020/9/28

NASA Digital Transformation Officer Jill Marlowe discusses the agency’s digital transformation strat