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Kate, Kyo, and Carlos (before he moved away) host their own talk show! Their guests are real scientists and engineers who work on really cool space and Earth missions. Join them and find out what it’s like to work for NASA, how they got started in science or engineering, and what they like to do for fun.
 
Click here to watch Linda Herrel on Space Place Live. Not all architects design buildings. In this episode, you will meet Linda Herrell, architect of space missions! Find out how a love of French and Spanish led her to a love of computers and space technology-and what artsy hobby she picked to use her special design skills.
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Click here to watch Michelle Thaller on Space Place Live. Meet Michelle Thaller, an astronomer with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Find out what movie and what TV show first inspired Michelle to become an astronomer. You’ll also learn Michelle’s very favorite amazing fact about space.
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Click here to watch Donya Douglas on Space Place Live. Meet Donya Douglas, a thermal engineer from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She always wanted to be an engineer. She never doubted that she could do it. Learn how her team found ways to keep three miniature spacecraft not too hot and not too cold in the harsh environment of space.
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Click here to watch Karsten Danzmann on Space Place Live. All the way from Germany to chat with us is Dr. Karsten Danzmann, who works with Dr. Kip Thorne (see below) on the LISA mission. Find out how it was not school, but TV that inspired Karsten to explore the universe!
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Click here to watch Chris Martin on Space Place Live. Our guest is Dr. Chris Martin, a professor at CalTech and leader of the NASA space mission, GALEX! He's taken his love of map-making and exploration and uses it to map the universe and explore the birth of stars! Check it out!
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Click here to watch Deborah Vane on Space Place Live. Meet our guest Deborah Vane. She's a physicist who always loved astronomy, came to NASA to work on a Mars robot lander mission, and then got interested in Earth studies too. Now she's a scientist on the CloudSat Mission and is here to tell us all about it.
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Click here to watch Kip Thorne on Space Place Live. Our guest is Dr. Kip Thorne, astronomer and author of the popular book "Black Holes & Time Warps." We will find out what he’s doing now, how he became a scientist, and what he likes to do for fun.
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