In our first episode of the Cosmos Safari podcast, hosts Dave Farina and Rob Webb dive into NASA's Artemis program that will return humans to the moon for the first time in over 50 years and eventually to Mars! Learn more about this awesome NASA mission and explore the possibilities that future human space travel makes possible.

The first lunar landings inspired an entire generation to look beyond the Earth and imagine endless possibilities. Technologies created to meet the demands of these missions have shaped our modern world in almost every way, and the Artemis program will likely reap similar unforeseen benefits as well. These NASA Spinoff technologies may very well change the world as we know it.

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In this video co-hosts Dave Farina and Rob Webb dive into the James Webb Space Telescope which has made a huge splash in the astronomy world over the last month. Dave and Rob discuss what makes them excited about the telescope, and discuss some of the science that JWST is built to conduct.

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Dr. Brandt: https://personal.psu.edu/wnb3/

Dr. Niel Brandt is the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Professor of Physics at The Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Brandt is joining us today to speak specifically about his outreach through summer teacher workshops as well as his primary research interests which include:

The growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time
Black-hole vs. galaxy connections
Deep cosmological multi-wavelength surveys
Supermassive black-hole winds and feedback into galaxies
Sample-based studies of active galactic nuclei
Extreme active galactic nuclei as tools
X-ray astronomy and high-energy astrophysics
Deep, wide, and fast cosmic surveys


This summer’s workshop, “The Lives and Deaths of Stars” will be held on July 17-21st at The Pennsylvania State University. https://sites.psu.edu/psiwa/

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