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In this story, grandpa Ed talked about his complicated teenage years. This was very special because I rarely see him.

My grandpa and I talked about his life and memories. He also explained some advice he’s obtained and wanted to share with future generations.

He talks about his family, childhood, and values. He also mentions how his life has been and how he hopes the future will be better.

My grandmother, age 72, was born and raised in Washington DC before moving down to South Carolina. Her father died of cancer at a young age for her, which she speaks of in this interview. She has had a very...

Clint McGuire (55) talks with his former professor and long-time friend, Jack Benjamin (70), about Jack's early years in theatre and his role in building a theatre department from scratch at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

Clouds are among the most unpredictable components of climate models. But Norman Loeb is working hard to sort out the shape of cloud patterns in order to improve the accuracy of long-term weather predictions. As far as understanding how all...

This was a great interview. We discussed many topic about Katumu’s life and learned more about them.

We went through a short summary of his life and some of the major events throughout that time span.

Steve Desroches (47) and Tony Baptista (47) talk about their friendship that began when they were 10 years old and the "sliding door" occurrences that reunited them when they were 25.

Why do people feel they way they do about issues? Why do lawmakers and policy leaders seemingly act against their better interests? And how can information be developed in a way that leads not just to greater understanding, but to...

Jack Kaye, associate director for research at NASA's Earth Science Division, discuss his origins as a chemist and earth scientist, and how he was recruited to Goddard to be a chemist among meteorologists. "My boss would advertise me as his...

Matt talks. It’s okay.

StoryCorps Facilitator, Kiplyn Primus (57), has a conversation with new friend and community leader, Antoinette Tuff (53). Topics include Antoinette's childhood, her role as a wife and mother, and the day she talked an armed gunman at Ronald E. McNair...

There’s a bit of a culture change moving from Ohio to New Hampshire, which Melanie Perello, Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University, did as part of her studies. Would you be surprised that going from either to Tibet to study paleoclimate...

Jacob Bleacher has spent a great deal of time preparing for Mars and the moon, even though he has never left the Earth’s orbit. The research scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center is currently on detail at NASA Headquarters as...

Elizabeth Rampe, a mineralogist, studying Mars at the NASA Johnson Space Center, shares about her life and work. She focuses on minerals on the surface of Mars which formed from water-rock interactions, which have the potential to show billions of...

Sarah Vines and Robert Allen once drove twenty hours to see a spaceship launch. Now, Sarah and Robert are married, post-doctoral students working in the laboratories of Johns Hopkins University. Sarah researches how magnetic fields form, and what earth’s magnetic...

Even through these hard times we can find the silver lining. My sister has to stay at home with her baby all day and cannot leave. She has just recently found out that she is pregnant and now she is...

Brian Day, of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Virtual Institute, leads a group of scientists in visualization and analysis of spacecraft data. Brian was taught that there’s no water on the moon, there’s no atmosphere on the moon, and the moon...

Erika Land and Aissatou Sidime-Blanton discuss that PTSD the Erika suffered as part of her U.S. military service as a pharmacy technician and how poetry, and producing her one-woman play (“PTSD and Me/At ease. Not today PTSD.”), has helped her...

One Small Step participants Julaine Hunter (49) and Rhonda Jones (52) talk about the ways their childhoods shaped their politics, how COVID has affected them, and the recent loss of Julaine's daughter.

Initial discussion with dad about growing up and meeting mom

Kristen Erickson, Director of science engagements and partnership, recently helmed NASA’s efforts to involve over 154 million adult Americans with direct participation with the 2017 total eclipse – the largest engagement effort in NASA history. But in her more than...

Caroline Patterson (63) talks with her mother Laura Mae Patterson (92) about her upbringing, the many different places she's lived and how she settled in Montana.

Michael Meyer, NASA's Chief Scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, talks about his life and work in science. As a teenager working as a deckhand on a treasure diving boat in Florida, he was hired to replace some fired divers...