Rachael Zisk is a journalist at Payload Space - where she covers the business and policy of space in their daily newsletter. We talk about becoming a space journalist, development of the James Webb Space Telescope, all the magnificent JWST images, instruments onboard, and much more.


 


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OUTLINE 


(0:00) - Becoming a Space Journalist 


(5:40) - Background of James Webb Space Telescope 


(12:45) - Instruments onboard JWST 


(15:15) - Possibility of life on WASP-96B 


(16:41) - Beautiful cosmic cliffs of Carina Nebula 


(17:21) - How stars are born? 


(19:25) - Southern Ring Nebula 


(20:39) - Stephan's Quintet 


(22:18) - GLASS-z13 galaxy 


(26:07) - 344 Single Point of Failures 


(28:47) - Deciding what to capture 


(32:40) - Is money spent on space worth it? 


(36:25) - JWST sustaining a micrometeoroid impact 


(41:57) - New Space Science newsletter 


(50:50) - Conclusion




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77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 


75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread


74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust


68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 


62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]




Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

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