Settle the Stars: The Science of Space Exploration
Exploring and terraforming Mars will be the greatest scientific and engineering challenge in the history of our species. From landfall and building the first cities to manipulating an entire planetary environment, this podcast will dive into the science of space exploration, settlement and terraforming! Join Alexander Winn, creator of TerraGenesis and founder of Edgeworks Entertainment, as he walks you through the real science behind his hit indie terraforming game, TerraGenesis, and how those same concepts will work in real life.
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January 13, 2023 • 22 mins
Our host Lacey Hannan is back! And this time she's looking to the northern sky in winter to talk about Andromeda of the Perseus Family.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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December 16, 2022 • 24 mins
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson moves from Cygnus over to Pegasus diving into the heroic stories and comradery this creature had in Greek Mythology.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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December 9, 2022 • 1 min
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, ...
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December 2, 2022 • 23 mins
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson is back to move our evening gaze into the cooler months with the constellation Cygnus. We will delve into the characters that ARE Cygnus and the feathered ones that BECOME Cygnus.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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October 21, 2022 • 15 mins
Aquila the Eagle is full of many possibilities and potential for unknown worlds. Guest host, Rachel Emerson, floats through the history of how this constellation came to be.
Research and Writing by Andrew Vietze
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September 30, 2022 • 22 mins
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson is back with a very popular figure in Greek Mythology. She talks about the origins of Hercules and the endless possibility within the stars that make up the constellation.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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September 28, 2022 • 4 mins
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast
Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful,
impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer
Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary
podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining
speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, ...
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September 16, 2022 • 16 mins
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson will talk about the constellation Scorpius.
She will go into the mythology behind this constellation and why its brightest object is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye – and so red it’s often confused with the red planet.
Research and Writing by Andrew Vietze
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August 26, 2022 • 28 mins
This week, we are re-releasing our episode on Exoplanets to coincide with NASA's discovery of "Planetary Photobombing"...
In the last few decades, we have learned that most of these stars are hosts to their own systems of planets, just as the Sun is to our Solar System. We call these worlds exoplanets, or extrasolar planets. Alexander Winn takes us incredible distances to learn about them.
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August 12, 2022 • 23 mins
The constellation, Ophiucus, is one of the lesser known constellations. However, it's one full of myths, history and new discoveries. Lacey Hannan uncovers it all in this episode.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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August 5, 2022 • 13 mins
The constellation, Leo, is one of the easiest to catch in the night sky. Lacey Hannan covers the origins of the constellation. Follow along as she points out the stars that make up this ancient beast...
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July 29, 2022 • 22 mins
Continuing on in our travels through constellations, today we discuss Sagittarius. Lacey Hannan tells us about it's back story in multiple cultures and what stars it's composed of.
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July 8, 2022 • 23 mins
In this new series, we’re going to deep-dive into the astronomical facts and age-old mythologies behind some of the most famous constellations, potentially giving you a whole new perspective the next time you look up at a starry night.
We are kicking it off with one of the most famous characters in the sky, Orion.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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July 1, 2022 • 2 mins
We are bringing you season 3 starting Friday, July 8th. Host Lacey Hannan begins our journey into Greek Mythology's ties to constellations. We will be following the sky based on what is visible in the Northern Hemisphere.
We will see you next week... Happy Terraforming.
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June 24, 2022 • 23 mins
As we gear up for an announcement on our new series, we are re-releasing a classic episode on Mars hosted by Alexander Winn. Lacey Hannan introduces it with news of another successful Blue Origin trip.
Research and writing by: Jake Koster
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June 17, 2022 • 20 mins
For our last episode in this season on the depiction of space in science fiction, we will delve into the film "Moon" directed by Duncan Jones starring Sam Rockwell.
Next Week we will be pivoting back to the sky and out of science fiction version of it. As we begin our series on constellations.
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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June 10, 2022 • 15 mins
In a re-release episode, Alexander Winn takes us to Mercury to discuss how... habitable it is.. or (spoiler alert) it isn't.
Research and writing by: Jake Koster
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June 3, 2022 • 21 mins
In this episode, Lacey Hannan looks through the wide scope of the original Star Trek Series. Covering how the show shaped and even propelled science and pop culture all at the same time.
Next Week's topic: "October Sky" directed by Joe Johnston
Research and Writing by Mike Ettel
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May 27, 2022 • 23 mins
Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and its cinematic counterpart Apocalypse Now, writer and director James Gray set out to film the tale of an astronaut Roy McBride (played by Brad Pitt), who journeys to confront a renegade explorer that has become consumed by madness not in the jungle but at the far reaches of our solar system. Lacey Hannan heads into the mind of James Gray to cover Ad Astra.
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May 20, 2022 • 23 mins
Apollo 13, was a trip that turned out to be anything but routine, and the mission, which became known as “the successful failure,” would prove one of the most thrilling and most uplifting stories to come out of our efforts to explore space. Lacey Hannan walks us through the real-life journey turned award-winning film, "Apollo 13".
Next Week's topic: "Ad Astra" directed by James Gray
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