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Recent Webcasts:

  Sara Seager  

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Astrobiology and the Search for Life Beyond Earth

Bahcall Lecture webcast live on Thursday, December 10, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Sara Seager
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  Astronaut John Grunsfeld, Ph.D.  

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The Significance of the Hubble Space Telescope

Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Speaker: Astronaut John Grunsfeld, Ph.D.
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  Alan Bean Portrait  

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A Conversation with Alan Bean

Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen Flight Jacket Night Lecture webcast live on Friday, November 13, 2009
Speaker: Alan Bean

  Patty Wagstaff with two Kenyan pilots  

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Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service

GE Aviation Lecture webcast live on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Speakers: Patty Wagstaff and Miles O'Brien
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  1909 Wright Military Flyer  

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The World's First Military Airplane: The 1909 Wright Military Flyer

Public symposium webcast live on Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Speakers: Peter Jakab, Tom Crouch, Cathy Allen, Ken Hyde, Paul Glenshaw

  Apollo 11 Crew at National Air and Space Museum's John H. Glenn Lecture  

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John H. Glenn Lecture: 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11

Webcast live on NASA TV Sunday July 19, 2009
Speakers: Chris Kraft, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong

  Alan Title  

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Our Sun - Is it a Steady Performer?

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday June 18, 2009
Speaker: Alan Title
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  Sara Seager  

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Are We Alone? Searching for an Exoplanet Like Home

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday May 27, 2009
Speaker: Sara Seager
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  Major Gen. Joe Engle  

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To the Edge of Space and Beyond

Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture webcast live on Thursday May 21, 2009
Speaker: Major Gen. Joe Engle

  Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry USAF (ret.) and Nguyen Hong My  

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A Pilot and the Enemy He Shot Down

General Electric Aviation Lecture webcast live on Thursday April 28, 2009
Speakers: Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry, USAF (ret.) and Nguyen Hong My, F-4 and MiG 21 adversaries

  Vera Rubin  

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What IS the Universe?

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday April 9, 2009
Speaker: Vera Rubin
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  David Levy  

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Why is Astronomy so Popular

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Wednesday March 25, 2009
Speaker: David Levy
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  Col. Leo K. Thorsness, (USAF, Ret.)  

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Heroism, Self-sacrifice, and Personal Bravery

General Electric Aviation Lecture webcast live on Thursday March 12, 2009
Speaker: Col. Leo K. Thorsness, USAF (ret.)

  Milky Way: A Crowded Neighborhood  

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The Milky Way: Why We Need Her and How She Was Formed

Webcast live on Thursday February 26, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Sandy Faber
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  Earthrise from Apollo 8  

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An Evening with the Apollo 8 Astronauts

Annual John H. Glenn Lecture webcast live on Thursday, November 13, 2008
Speakers: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders

  Anousheh Ansari  

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A Conversation With Anousheh Ansari

Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen Flight Jacket Night recorded Saturday, November 01, 2008
Speaker: Anousheh Ansari

  Col. Clarence E.  

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An Evening with Colonel Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson

General Electric Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday, October 09, 2008
Speaker: Col. Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson

   

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Smithsonian Institution
Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecture

October 8, 2008
Speaker: Dr. David Devorkin

  STEREO Solar Image  

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Forecasting Space Weather

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday June 17, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Tom Bogdan
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  Barbara Thompson - Exploring Space Lecture Series  

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Living with a Star

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday May 15, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Thompson
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  Herb Kelleher  

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Kelleher: Agent of Airline Change

Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Speaker: Herb Kelleher

  Sgt. Ben Kuroki  

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Most Honorable Son: a Japanese-American
B-24 Gunner in World War II

General Electric Aviation Lecture recorded on Thursday, May 1, 2008
Speaker: Sgt. Ben Kuroki

  Mary K. Hudson - Exploring Space Lecture Series  

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Confirming the Connection: Energetic Particles
and Storms from the Sun

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday, April 17, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Mary K. Hudson
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  Thunderbird Pilot Maj. Nicole Malachowski  

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An Evening with America's First Female Thunderbird Pilot

General Electric Aviation Lecture webcast live on Thursday, March 27, 2008
Speaker: Maj. Nicole Malachowski

       
  Dr. Loren Acton - Exploring Space Lecture Series  

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Discovering the Connection: The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Thursday, March 13, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Loren Acton
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  Prof. Marcy  

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New Worlds, Yellowstone, and Life in the Universe

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Speaker: Prof. Geoff Marcy

       
 
F-14 at Sunset
 

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An Evening with Test Pilot Robert K. Smyth

General Electric Aviation Lecture webcast live on Thursday, October 25, 2007

       
  New Horizons

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New Horizons: Exploring the Solar System's Frontier

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, June 14, 2007

Speaker: S. Alan Stern
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  Saturn and Dione

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Expedition to the Ringed Planet: Cassini Explores Saturn, Its Rings, and the Fountains of Enceladus

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Speaker: Carolyn Porco
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  Colorized View of Titan from Cassini

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Exploring the Surface of Titan with Cassini-Huygens

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Speaker: Elizabeth Turtle
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  Sedna

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Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System

Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Speaker: Mike Brown
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More Archived Webcasts:

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