Lieutenant Colonel John Lassiter is a retired Air Force Aerospace Engineer who has worked on a variety of aircraft in his long career, including the F-15 fighter and the C-130 aircraft. Lassiter worked for nearly 30 years at NASA/Marshall Space

Episode 29: Ed Stewart

Feb 29th, 2024 32m 4s

Ed Stewart graduated from West Virginia Weslayan College with a bachelor of arts in theatrical direction and design. Ed served the US Space and Rocket Center as the Director of Exhibits and Curation for almost nine years before becoming the ful

Summer of Skylab: Ron Paulus

Dec 6th, 2023 20m 30s

May of 2023 was the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Skylab. The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, celebrated with the Summer of Skylab – a series of presentations, educational panels, and celebrity events taking place thr

Summer of Skylab: Lowell Zoller

Nov 2nd, 2023 21m 18s

Episode 28: Beth Mund

Sep 28th, 2023 56m 29s

Beth Mund was a NASA public affairs officer for the Johnson Space Center and a communication officer for the International Space Station. She is a passionate advocate for the people and their stories of science and space exploration, now sharin

Summer of Skylab: Jack Stokes

Sep 6th, 2023 43m 4s

Summer of Skylab: Richard Hoover

Aug 16th, 2023 34m 52s

May of 2023 was the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Skylab. The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is celebrating with the Summer of Skylab – a series of presentations, educational panels, and celebrity events taking place

Summer of Skylab: Kenny Mitchell

Jul 5th, 2023 35m 40s

Episode 27: Josh Whitfield

May 15th, 2023 35m 7s

Josh Whitfield is a United States Army veteran awarded the purple heart for his service in Iraq. Today, he is a political consultant and works as the District Director to California State Assemblymember Heath Flora. Josh attended Aviation Chall

Episode 26: Kirby Runyon

Apr 27th, 2023 35m 34s

Dr. Kirby Runyon is a Space Camp alumni and planetary geologist at the Planetary Science Institute. He has flown 16 parabolic flights, accumulating more than an hour of time spent in weightlessness. He owns a technical and space tourism consult

Episode 25: Gretchen Green

Mar 23rd, 2023 29m 38s

Dr. Gretchen Green is a Brown, Yale, and Harvard educated radiologist practicing in North Carolina. She attended Space Camp four times, and served as a crew trainer.Dr. Green served on the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation's Boar

Episode 24: Danny Jaques

Mar 15th, 2023 24m 44s

Danny Jaques is a retired school teacher from Colorado. In his three decades of teaching, Danny helped with fundraising and chaperoned more than 500 students to Space Camp. He is a member of the Space Camp Hall of Fame, and owns Danny's Rocket

Episode 23: Director Harry Winer

Jan 30th, 2023 34m 31s

Harry Winer is a director, producer, and writer in the film and television industry. His television work includes Alias, Veronica Mars, Felicity, Hart to Hart, and many others. Harry is president of Smash Media and has written, directed, or pro

Episode 22: Lt. Col. Burke Hare

Nov 22nd, 2022 41m 20s

Lt. Col. Burke Hare was a U.S. Air Force space and missile operator whose career has included overseeing the maintenance and operations of ICBMs and improvements made to the GPS satellite system. He is a Space Camp Hall of Fame member and is cu

Episode 21: Chris Vrenna

Oct 28th, 2022 41m 5s

Chris Vrenna is a musician, producer, engineer, programmer, and songwriter best known as the drummer for Nine Inch Nails. He’s played with Marilyn Manson, Guns and Roses, Smashing Pumpkins, and more, and he’s composed music for video games in t

Episode 20: Penny Pettigrew

Sep 26th, 2022 30m 32s

Penny Pettigrew is a payload communications manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, communicating with astronauts conducting scientific experiments aboard the International Space Station. She is a Space Camp alumni and a m

Episode 19: Robert Pearlman

Sep 9th, 2022 34m 27s

Robert Pearlman is a space historian and the founder and editor of the website collectSPACE. He was the director of communications and the marketing director for Space Adventures, the first space tourism company to send private individuals to t

Episode 18: Katie Berryhill

Jul 20th, 2022 32m 8s

Katie Berryhill is former intelligence officer for the United States Air Force. Today, she is an astronomy professor at multiple colleges and the CEO of Berryhill Computer Forensics, Incorporated. She is a Space Camp alumni, a science education

Episode 17: Andrea Hanson

May 23rd, 2022 37m 3s

Dr. Andrea Hanson is a bioastronautics and microgravity science aerospace engineer. She is currently working at NASA Johnson Space Center on Crew Health and Performance for the Human Landing System (HLS). She is a Space Camp alumni, Space Camp

Episode 16: David Hitt

Apr 19th, 2022 39m 58s

David Hitt is a contractor Communications Strategist with Marshall Space Flight Center's Office of Strategic Analysis and Communication. He began his career as a small town newspaper editor before joining NASA's Space Launch System as Communica

Episode 15: Marcia Lindstrom

Mar 24th, 2022 33m 33s

Marcia Lindstrom leads the Strategic Communications Team for NASA's Space Launch System, the rocket that will take humans to the Moon and eventually to Mars. In the past, she has served as manager for the External Relations Office at NASA's Mar

Episode 14: Jim Allan

Feb 16th, 2022 27m 41s

Jim Allan is the accessibility coordinator for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He served as their webmaster and as an assistive technology specialist. He has been coordinating and bringing Texas students to SCIVIS (Space C

Episode 13: Peter Marquez

Jan 18th, 2022 32m 43s

Peter Marquez is the Head of Space Policy at Amazon Web Services. He has consulted on television shows like "Space Force" as a space consultant, Director of Space Policy on the National Security Council, and served at Planetary Resources, Inc.

Episode 12: Keri Bean

Dec 17th, 2021 29m 20s

Keri Bean is a systems engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is a deputy lead Rover Planner on the Curiosity rover. She is also a Helicopter Integration Engineer for the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter currently on Mars

Episode 11: Margrit von Braun

Nov 15th, 2021 38m 30s

Margrit von Braun is an environmental engineer specializing in hazardous waste management and risk assessment. Her father was Dr. Wernher von Braun, the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and led the development of the Saturn V