Small Steps, Giant Leaps
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsNASA’s technical workforce put boots on the Moon, tire tracks on Mars, and the first reusable spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. Learn what’s next as they build missions that redefine the future with amazing discoveries and remarkable innovations.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 82, NASA’s Role in Agriculture
April 20, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBNASA Water Resources and Agriculture Program Manager Brad Doorn discusses how NASA tools and data help solve big problems on Earth.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 81, Engineering Best Practices 4
April 06, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBNASA Johnson Space Center Engineering Director Julie Kramer White discusses the skills required to be a top-notch engineer.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 81, Engineering Best Practices – Part 4
April 06, 2022 12:00 - 38.6 MBNASA Johnson Space Center Engineering Director Julie Kramer White discusses the skills required to be a top-notch engineer.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 80, Engineering Best Practices 3
March 22, 2022 19:05 - 26 minutes - 36 MBNASA Space Launch System Chief Engineer John Blevins discusses the rigorous engineering of the world's most powerful rocket.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 80, Engineering Best Practices – Part 3
March 22, 2022 15:05 - 36 MBNASA Space Launch System Chief Engineer John Blevins discusses the rigorous engineering of the world's most powerful rocket.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 79, Engineering Best Practices 2
March 09, 2022 17:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBNASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Chief Engineer Steve Hirshorn discusses what it takes to be a successful chief engineer.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 79, Engineering Best Practices – Part 2
March 09, 2022 13:00 - 47.3 MBNASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Chief Engineer Steve Hirshorn discusses what it takes to be a successful chief engineer.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 78, Engineering Best Practices 1
February 23, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBNASA Chief Engineer Ralph Roe discusses engineering best practices.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 78, Engineering Best Practices – Part 1
February 23, 2022 13:00 - 26.9 MBNASA Chief Engineer Ralph Roe discusses engineering best practices.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 77, VERITAS
February 09, 2022 17:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBNASA's John Brophy discusses the VERITAS mission to Venus.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 76, DAVINCI
January 26, 2022 19:04 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBNASA's Mike Sekerak discusses the DAVINCI mission to Venus.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 75, Artemis Progress
December 15, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBNASA's Kristin Morgan discusses 2021 progress and what's ahead for the Artemis Program in 2022.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 74, Solar Sails
December 01, 2021 17:30 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBNASA's Les Johnson discusses solar sail propulsion and the upcoming Near-Earth Asteroid Scout and Solar Cruiser missions.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 73, James Webb Space Telescope
November 17, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBJames Webb Space Telescope Program Director Greg Robinson discusses NASA's largest and most powerful space science telescope ever constructed.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 72, Dawn Mission
November 03, 2021 17:03 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBNASA's Marc Rayman discusses the legacy of the Dawn mission to the two most massive bodies in the main asteroid belt.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 71, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment
October 20, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBMars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment Principal Investigator Mike Hecht discusses the MOXIE technology demonstration that's generating oxygen on the Red Planet.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 70, Lucy Mission
October 06, 2021 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBLucy Deputy Project Systems Engineer Mike Sekerak discusses the first space mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 69, Parker Solar Probe
September 22, 2021 17:08 - 39 minutes - 27 MBParker Solar Probe Mission Scientist Adam Szabo discusses NASA's journey to the Sun.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 68, Lessons Learned Information System
September 08, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBNASA Lessons Learned Program Manager Michael Bell discusses the agency's Lessons Learned Information System.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 67, Quiet Supersonic Mission
August 25, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBNASA Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Deputy Project Manager Cathy Bahm discusses the X-59 quiet supersonic research mission.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 66, Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
August 11, 2021 02:40 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBNASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Project Manager Keith Wichman discusses mapping problems and solutions to transform aviation.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 65, NASA Intern Experiences
July 28, 2021 14:19 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBNASA Intern Nick Syracuse discusses his virtual internship experiences.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 64, Space Communications and Navigation
July 14, 2021 15:01 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBNASA Space Communications and Navigation Chief Engineer Neil Mallik discusses how SCaN keeps the universe connected.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 63, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
June 30, 2021 15:17 - 23 minutes - 16 MBOSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta discusses the NASA mission to near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
June 16, 2021 14:41 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBNASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dynamic power of laser communications technologies.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 61, Transforming Assessment of Unsteady Aerodynamics
June 02, 2021 16:30 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBNASA's Nettie Roozeboom discusses a new state-of-the-art technique to measure unsteady aerodynamics using pressure-sensitive paint.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly
May 19, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBDragonfly Principal Investigator Zibi Turtle discusses NASA's planned rotorcraft-lander mission to Titan.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 59, Spacecraft Window Design
May 05, 2021 08:50 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBNASA Spacecraft Window Design Expert Lynda Estes discusses the evolution of windows that give humans a unique view into space.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory
April 21, 2021 02:25 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBSOFIA Project Scientist Naseem Rangwala discusses the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 57, Shuttle Program Closeout Complexities
April 07, 2021 06:29 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBNASA's Johnny Nguyen discusses insight gained through closeout of the Space Shuttle Program.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 56, Model-based Systems Engineering
March 24, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBNASA's Terry Hill and Jessica Knizhnik discuss the agency's transition to model-based systems engineering.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission
March 10, 2021 03:51 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBPsyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program
February 24, 2021 13:40 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBNASA Astrophysicist and Pioneers Program Lead Scientist Michael Garcia discusses the new program’s first mission concepts selected for further development.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 53, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
February 10, 2021 02:59 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBIngenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Bob Balaram discusses the first experimental aircraft flight on another planet.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 52, Mars Perseverance Rover Science
January 26, 2021 02:41 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBMars 2020 Perseverance Rover Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan discusses science objectives of NASA’s first astrobiology-focused mission to the Red Planet.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 51, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign
January 13, 2021 07:13 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBNASA Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Deputy Lead Shivanjli Sharma discusses the "third revolution" in aviation.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 50, Futuristic Space Technologies
December 09, 2020 09:38 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBNASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Executive Jason Derleth discusses visionary concepts that could transform future space missions.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 49, NEEMO Case Study Deconstructed
November 24, 2020 20:56 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBNASA’s Bill Todd and Joyce Abbey and retired Astronaut Nicole Stott discuss NEEMO and a new case study they developed about the unique undersea analog.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 48, Mars Landing Retropropulsion Simulation
November 11, 2020 03:51 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBNASA's Michelle Munk, Ashley Korzun and Eric Nielsen discuss the impact of state-of-the-art computing on future NASA missions.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity
October 28, 2020 04:31 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBInternational Space Station Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the complexity of the orbiting laboratory as NASA counts up to 20 years of continuous human presence in space.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 46, ISS 20 - Living in Space
October 13, 2020 20:38 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBAmerican Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson discusses 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 45, Digital Transformation
September 28, 2020 21:06 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBNASA Digital Transformation Officer Jill Marlowe discusses the agency’s digital transformation strategy and approach.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 44, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
September 13, 2020 04:22 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBNASA Deputy Director of Astrophysics Jeff Volosin discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 43, White Sands Test Facility
September 02, 2020 07:37 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBWhite Sands Test Facility Manager Bob Cort discusses the history and capabilities of the NASA facility.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 42, Game Changing Development Program
August 19, 2020 05:21 - 36 minutes - 25 MBNASA Game Changing Development Program Executive Niki Werkheiser discusses advancement of space technologies that could lead to new approaches for future space missions.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 41, Technical Storytelling, Part Two
August 05, 2020 05:54 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBNASA’s Jon Olansen, Jenny Devolites and Ben Asher share technical stories and discuss storytelling technique with Storytelling Strategist Johel Brown-Grant.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 40, Technical Storytelling, Part One
July 22, 2020 07:41 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBStorytelling Strategist Johel Brown-Grant with the U.S. State Department discusses organizational benefits of technical storytelling.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 39, Plum Brook Station
July 08, 2020 00:06 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBPlum Brook Station Director David Stringer discusses world-unique test facilities at the NASA station in Ohio.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 38, Human Factors
June 24, 2020 16:29 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBNASA Armstrong Operations Engineering Branch Chief Kate McMurtry discusses the value of understanding the impact of human factors on mission performance.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 37, NASA Safety Center
June 10, 2020 00:13 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBNASA Safety Center Director Harmony Myers discusses resources to help achieve technical excellence in safety and mission assurance.