Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA’s technical workforce put boots on the Moon, tire tracks on Mars, and the first reusable spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. Learn what’s next as they build missions that redefine the future with amazing discoveries and remarkable innovations.Podcasts
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 119: Rocket Propulsion Test Program
Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 1:09 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 118: Center Innovation Fund and Early Career Initiative
Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 117: NASA Trade and Technical Professionals, Part 3
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, noonDuration: 34 minutes 43 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 116: NASA Trade and Technical Professionals, Part 2
Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 115: NASA Trade and Technical Professionals, Part 1
Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 1:41 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 37 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 114: Last Stop Before Retirement
Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 1:02 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 113: OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Preparation
Published: July 26, 2023, noonDuration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 112: TechLeap Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge
Published: July 12, 2023, noonDuration: 16 minutes 35 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 111: Flight Opportunities
Published: June 28, 2023, noonDuration: 21 minutes 38 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 110: APPEL Knowledge Services
Published: June 14, 2023, noonDuration: 27 minutes 5 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 109: NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Published: May 31, 2023, 11:17 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 108: Underwater Training for Astronauts
Published: May 17, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 107: Perovskite Solar Cells
Published: May 3, 2023, noonDuration: 17 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 106: Surface Water and Ocean Topography
Published: April 19, 2023, noonDuration: 31 minutes 33 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 105: Samples from Mars
Published: April 5, 2023, noonDuration: 23 minutes 23 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 104: Workplace Safety Culture
Published: March 22, 2023, 1:11 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 28 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 103: Legacy of Inspiration
Published: March 8, 2023, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 102: Legacy of Connection
Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 101: Artemis Missions
Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 40 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 100: NASA’s Extraordinary Workforce
Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 6 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 99: Webb Space Telescope’s First Year
Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 8 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 98: Voyager
Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 97: Mars InSight
Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 44 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 96: Airworthiness
Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 95: Developmental Assignments
Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 94: Mars Sample Return
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 93: Circuit Theory Application to Animal Movement
Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 8:33 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 92: Evolved Structures
Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 91: OSAM-1
Published: Aug. 24, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 90, Effects of Space Radiation
Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 89, The Big Dig
Published: July 27, 2022, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 55 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 88, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight
Published: July 13, 2022, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 87, NuSTAR
Published: June 29, 2022, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 7 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 86, Astrobiology Research Coordination Networks
Published: June 15, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 85, Moon to Mars Habitation
Published: June 1, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 84, NASA’s Role in Weather Research
Published: May 18, 2022, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 83, NASA’s Role in Climate Research
Published: May 4, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 82, NASA’s Role in Agriculture
Published: April 20, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 81, Engineering Best Practices 4
Published: April 6, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 80, Engineering Best Practices 3
Published: March 22, 2022, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 79, Engineering Best Practices 2
Published: March 9, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 78, Engineering Best Practices 1
Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 77, VERITAS
Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 76, DAVINCI
Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 75, Artemis Progress
Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 55 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 74, Solar Sails
Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 73, James Webb Space Telescope
Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 72, Dawn Mission
Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 71, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment
Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 70, Lucy Mission
Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 69, Parker Solar Probe
Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 5:08 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 68, Lessons Learned Information System
Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 67, Quiet Supersonic Mission
Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 66, Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 2:40 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 65, NASA Intern Experiences
Published: July 28, 2021, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 64, Space Communications and Navigation
Published: July 14, 2021, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 63, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Published: June 30, 2021, 3:17 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 15 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Published: June 16, 2021, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 61, Transforming Assessment of Unsteady Aerodynamics
Published: June 2, 2021, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly
Published: May 19, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 59, Spacecraft Window Design
Published: May 5, 2021, 8:50 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory
Published: April 21, 2021, 2:25 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 57, Shuttle Program Closeout Complexities
Published: April 7, 2021, 6:29 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 56, Model-based Systems Engineering
Published: March 24, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission
Published: March 10, 2021, 3:51 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program
Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 1 second
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 53, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 2:59 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 52, Mars Perseverance Rover Science
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 2:41 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 9 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 51, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign
Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 7:13 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 34 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 50, Futuristic Space Technologies
Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 9:38 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 28 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 49, NEEMO Case Study Deconstructed
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 8:56 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 48, Mars Landing Retropropulsion Simulation
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 3:51 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 24 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity
Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 4:31 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 46, ISS 20 - Living in Space
Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 8:38 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 45, Digital Transformation
Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 9:06 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 13 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 44, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 4:22 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 43, White Sands Test Facility
Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 7:37 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 42, Game Changing Development Program
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 5:21 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 26 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 41, Technical Storytelling, Part Two
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 5:54 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 40, Technical Storytelling, Part One
Published: July 22, 2020, 7:41 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 39, Plum Brook Station
Published: July 8, 2020, 12:06 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 38, Human Factors
Published: June 24, 2020, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 37, NASA Safety Center
Published: June 10, 2020, 12:13 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 25 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 36, Crowdsourcing Innovation
Published: May 27, 2020, 5:15 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 35, Launch America
Published: May 13, 2020, 2:04 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 34, Science in the 2020s
Published: April 29, 2020, 7:18 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 33, Young Innovators
Published: April 15, 2020, 2:37 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 32, Europa Clipper
Published: March 30, 2020, 9:34 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 31, Commercial Lunar Payload Service
Published: March 18, 2020, 5:58 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 24 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 30, VIPER Lunar Rover
Published: March 4, 2020, 6:14 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 15 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 29, Centennial Challenges
Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 6 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 28: Interdisciplinary Interactions
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 10:17 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 47 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 27, Megatrends for Engineering Systems
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 12:09 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 17 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 26, NASA IV&V
Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 5:08 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 25, NASA Technology Transfer
Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 7:36 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 1 second
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 24, TechPort
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 8:23 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 35 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 23, Swamp Works
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 8:12 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 42 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 22, Reflections on Columbia
Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 25 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 21, NASA Human Research Program
Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 20, Exploration Spacesuit Design
Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 19, Magic Inside the Orion Spacesuit
Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 5:04 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 18, Orion Spacesuit Design
Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 17, Astronaut Training
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 11:43 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 27 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 16, Ocean-Atmosphere Understanding
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 4:39 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 15, 20 Years of Chandra Discoveries
Published: July 24, 2019, 5:38 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 14, Apollo Lunar Landing Training
Published: July 10, 2019, 5:03 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 13, Apollo Legacies and Lessons Learned
Published: June 25, 2019, 10:26 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 12, Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities
Published: June 12, 2019, 5:04 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 11, Commercial Crew
Published: May 28, 2019, 6:44 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 10, Concurrent Engineering
Published: May 15, 2019, 5:33 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 9, Mars Opportunity Rover Mission
Published: April 30, 2019, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 8, Engineering NASA’s Science Missions
Published: April 16, 2019, 6:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 13 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 7, Space Shuttle Columbia National Tour
Published: April 3, 2019, 3:12 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 6, Artificial Intelligence
Published: March 20, 2019, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 5, Big Data
Published: March 6, 2019, 3:20 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 4, APPEL Knowledge Services Overview
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 7:10 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 3, Unleashing Innovation
Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 2:42 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 2, Decision Velocity
Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 11 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 1, Orion Spacecraft
Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 12:33 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 38 seconds
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 1, Orion
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 8:33 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 0, Preview
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 11:24 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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