Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
Flying the Skies of Saturn’s Moon Titan
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From: Mat Kaplan
Imagine soaring over what may be the solar system’s most Earth-like world, if you ignore the chill. If funded, the nuclear electric-powered Dragonfly will do exactly this. ...
New Horizons Flyby: Join the Celebration!
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From: Mat Kaplan
Join us at the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland for the New Horizons encounter with the most distant object ever visited. You’ll meet mission leaders, friends and even a rock ...
A Mission to Earth: OSIRIS-REx
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From: Mat Kaplan
Why do so many spacecraft that are headed across our solar system turn their instruments back to Earth during flybys? OSIRIS-REx was no exception. The answers come from ...
Countdown to Ultima: Alan Stern and New Horizons
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From: Mat Kaplan
The New Horizons spacecraft will reach faraway Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 in the first minutes of 2019. Will the body informally known as Ultima Thule be as mysterious and ...
Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
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From: Mat Kaplan
This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path for the first moon landing seven months later, and gave a troubled nation ...
A Conversation With Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
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From: Mat Kaplan
He led NASA for eight years, but not till he had flown on four Space Shuttle missions and enjoyed a long military career. Charlie Bolden talks with Mat about his time at the ...
Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.
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From: Mat Kaplan
The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after traveling through deep space for a year and a half. We’ll talk with the ...
A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight
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From: Mat Kaplan
Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in with Bill Nye and Emily ...
We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life
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From: Mat Kaplan
NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero crater, where it will begin the search for the signature of past life. The ...
