Episode 27: Space Junk - Space Science on TV (with Dr Ingrid Ockert) - Part 1 of 2

Space Junk

English - March 23, 2020 08:56 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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In this episode I bring you part 1 of my conversation with the incredible Ingrid Ockert.Dr Ingrid Ockert is a historian of science and media in the 20th century. She holds a PhD from the History of Science Program at Princeton University. Ingrid was the was the 2018-2019 NASA/HSS History Fellow and is currently serving as a post-doctoral fellow at the Science History Institute.We had a great conversation about representations of science on TV, and the intersections between Star Trek, geopolitics, and society.

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