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Steven Clarke, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration, discusses his life in science and engineering. Currently tasked with bridging NASA's efforts on human and robotic missions to coordinate scientific requirements for going to the Moon and Mars, he has seen...

I think about how I got here. That in itself is a miracle.”

Chris Carr talking about his relationship with gun control

Steve Desroches (47) talks with his husband Peter Donnelly (62) about Donnelly's life as a singer/songwriter in Provincetown, Massachusetts as well as about life in a famously eccentric town.

Adeena Teres is a high school science teacher in Florida, although she tried a few different careers before following her passion for teaching. As a teacher, there are always opportunities to inspire students either into science careers or towards other...

One Small Step conversation partners Barbara Brown (79) and Helen Ens (77) discuss their similar experiences as Christian missionaries in Colombia, as well as their differing political views.

Jonathan Bamber has always loved to climb mountains. It’s why, when he wrote an essay about ice crystal formation in clouds as an 18-year-old undergrad, he found his calling studying glaciers and the natural environment. He’s traveled the world as...

Daniel Irwin’s first direct connection with NASA started in the small town of Flores in Guatemala. Amidst work dodging snakes and spiders in the jungle, he had a chance encounter with a researcher who handed him satellite mapping images of...

John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about being hired by the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in 1975 in Washington, DC, following six years of working with SANE to oppose nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War.There,...

As a radio astronomer at the Jet Propulsion lab at NASA, Joseph Lazio walks us through his work in radio astronomy and career at NASA. He helped design radio telescopes to solve the mystery of why a hidden star was...

Dr. David Lagomasino, assistant research professor at the University of Maryland and researcher at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, discusses his life in science, studying coastlines and the effects of sea level rise, erosion, deforestation, and other factors on complex...

Laurie Cantillo, the Deputy Director of Communications and Education at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about her journey to become a science communicator. She developed an interest in science at an early age spending time in the outdoors with her...

Doug Archer has a rock collection, only he’s never actually held any of the stones, and they are hundreds of millions of miles away on Mars. As a research scientist working with the Curiosity Mars rover in NASA’s Johnson Space...

Chasing storms is “a lot of boredom, and a little bit of excitement”, as Don MacGorman says. He discusses the planning that goes into storm chasing and all the precautions he and his team take to ensure they remain safe...

Steve Desroches (49) talks to Larry Collins (78) about his life as an artist as well as his time serving in the Vietnam War.

Kristin Mawhinney (68) and her daughter Kate Holmes (39) share a conversation about their careers working in education.

William "Bill" McMurrin (71) interviews his friend Timothy "Tim" Bywater (80) about his experience working as both a seasonal park ranger with the National Park Service and an English professor. They also talk about their friendship and Timothy's family.

Summary of 3rd decade

Natasha Adams (42) interviews her cousin Tina Frundt (47) on her experience advocating for and working alongside victims of human trafficking.

Jessica Harlan (49) interviews her father, Greg Goldbogen (77). Greg was drafted into the United States Army in 1968 and served during the Vietnam War in the Fife and Drum Corp and as driver for government officials including Vice President...

Kristin Lawrence is reimagining how children of all ages can learn and discover science. She is the CEO and Founder of The Hopper, a science discovery playground coming soon to Boulder, Colorado. Kristin changed direction from a career in paleomagnetism...

Years 30-40

Sister Genevieve Shea discusses her experiences as a nun for 80 years, and how religious and lay people can respond to social issues facing us today.

In the interview we talked about what my grandparents life was like when they were my age.

Steve K Desroches (47) talks to his father Steve R Desroches (74) about concerts and music of their respective younger days with the elder Desroches reminiscing about seeing such legends as Stevie Wonder, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.