Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan.
Ellen Stofan grew up around science — her father was a rocket engineer who spent his career working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That’s the place where Stofan is now scientist in chief, shaping the agenda for scientific programs and research. On the same day a NASA probe reached Pluto, she joins Kojo for a “Tech Tuesday” conversation about NASA’s current scientific priorities, the search for life in outer space and the landscape for other women to pursue careers in her field.
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- Ellen Stofan Chief Scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Photos: New Horizons and Pluto
What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is arguably the world's favorite dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA's New Horizons is speeding towards the edge of our solar system for a July 14 flyby.
Team members react to the latest image of Pluto at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab on July 10, 2015.
Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager, at work in the Mission Operations Center.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. holds a bumper sticker given to her by members of the New Horizons team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Monday, July 13, 2015 at APL in Laurel, Maryland.
On July 14, New Horizons mission scientists will soon obtain the first images of the night region of Pluto, using only the light from Charon, itself softly illuminated by a Sun 1,000 times dimmer than it is at Earth.
Members of the New Horizons team are shown at the launch of the spacecraft, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fl. on January 19, 2006.
The female team members were photographed at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 11, 2015, just three days before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto.
They’re a fascinating pair: Two icy worlds, spinning around their common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. Scientists believe they were shaped by a cosmic collision billions of years ago, and yet, in many ways, they seem more like strangers than siblings.
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