Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
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 ...
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
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From: Mat Kaplan
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is also ...
Where Do We Come From? – Exploring the Origins of Life Lab
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From: Mat Kaplan
They may be the most important questions in all of science: Where do we come from? Are we alone? Researchers Ralph Pudritz and Maikel Rheinstadter are working on these ...
Celebrating Kepler
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From: Mat Kaplan
The Kepler mission has ended. Listen to highlights of the October 30th media briefing that included the father of the fantastically successful planet finder, William ...
Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun
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From: Mat Kaplan
LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Scout on a long, ...
Back to Saturn for Brand New Cassini Science
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From: Mat Kaplan
Our most frequent guest returns with exciting, just-published research enabled by the 20-year mission’s enormous success. Linda Spilker has served as Cassini Project ...
