| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2026 | Dr. Daniel Glavin, Astrobiologist and the Senior Scientist for Sample Return in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission: Laboratory Results from Pristine Samples of Asteroid Bennu |
| November 4, 2025 | Dr. Alex Pontefract, assistant project scientist for Dragonfly | Dragonfly: Flights of Exploration on an Exotic Ocean World |
| October 14, 2025 | Dr. Richard Kelley, Principal Investigator, X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | How the Goddard Space Flight Center built the coldest spectrometer ever to observe the hottest objects in the Universe |
| September 9, 2025 | Jeff Volosin, Director of the Astronautical and Space Engineering Undergraduate Program, Capitol Technology University, GRAA Member | Capturing the History of NASA’s Explorer Program |
| August 12, 2025 | Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, GSFC Center Director (recent) | Reflections on Goddard’s Recent History |
| July 8, 2025 | Summer Student Interns, NASA Goddard | Short Descriptions of their Summer Projects |
| June 10, 2025 | Dr. John Degnan, Technical Consultant, GRAA Member | Evolution of Single Photon Lidar: From Satellite Laser Ranging to Airborne Lidars to ICESat-2 |
| May 13, 2025 | Dave Pierce, Director NASA's Wallops Flight Facility | Update from Wallops Flight Facility |
| April 8, 2025 | Dr. Jeremy Werdell, Project Scientist for NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud
Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission Slides: PowerPoint |
Life after launch: A snapshot of the first year of (and brief history of) NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission |
| January 14, 2025 | Dr. Christa Peters-Lidard, Director of Goddard's Science and Exploration Directorate (Code 600) | What's Next for Science at Goddard? |
| October 8, 2024 | Peter Hughes, Chief Technologist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) | Goddard's Technology Development Program (not recorded) |
| September 10, 2024 | George Chiu, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Operations Manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory | DART: Operational Challenges for the First Planetary Defense Test Mission |
| August 13, 2024 |
Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, Goddard Space Flight Center Director Slides: PowerPoint |
Goddard 2040: Current and Future Vision of the Center |
| April 16, 2024 | Tom Bridgman, NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio | Visualizing the Heliosphere |
| March 12, 2024 | Nickalaus Pinkine, the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory’s Parker Solar Probe’s Mission Operations Manager | Parker Solar Probe Mission Operations Challenges during Commissioning and Beyond |
| February 13, 2024 | Matt Greenhouse, Astrophysicist, Lab for Observational Cosmology, Project Scientist for Science Instruments, JWST | The James Webb Space Telescope Mission |
| January 9, 2024 |
Ralph Kahn, Aerosol Scientist (retired) for the NASA Earth Observing System's
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument Slides: PowerPoint, PDF |
Reducing the Uncertainty in Climate Predictions: Steps Toward Realizing the Potential of NASA’s Earth Observing System, and Reducing Aerosol Related Climate-Forcing Uncertainty |
| November 14, 2023 | Michael Moreau, Goddard's OSIRIS-REx Deputy Project Manager and SRC Recovery Lead Science Mission Operations Project Mission Operations Manager | To Bennu and Back—Return Sample from a Near Earth Asteroid |
| August 8, 2023 | Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager and Group Leader in the Space Department at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) | New Horizons: NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt |
| July 11, 2023 | Dr. Julie McEnery, Nancy Grace Roman Project Scientist | The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope - Getting Out From Under the Lamppost |
| April 11 2023 | Michael Johnson, Chief Technologist in Goddard’s Engineering and Technology Directorate (ETD), Code 500 | The Future of Goddard Engineering |
| March 14, 2023 | Elaine Shell, Flight Software Branch Head at GSFC (retired),
Jonathan Wilmot, cFS Software Architect, and David McComas, former Flight
Software Engineer and founder of the nonprofit Open STEMware Foundation.
Slides The Core Flight System (cFS) - Jonathan Wilmot NASA/GSFCThe Core Flight System & The Space Industry Transformation - David McComas |
The core Flight System (cFS) Software |
| February 14, 2023 | Mark Lupisella, Goddard's Exploration Integration Manager, and Cliff Brambora, Lunar Ice Cube Manager and a recent retiree | How Goddard is Contributing to Artemis |
| January 10, 2023 | Michael Chesnes, Manager of Select Federal Services at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Library | Library Information Services |
| November 18, 2022 | David Pierce, the Director of the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) | Wallops Flight Facility: A Unique NASA and National Asset |
| August 9, 2022 | Jody Davis, Deputy Payload Systems Engineer for the Roman telescope project in the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Engineering Directorate | Roman Space Telescope: Personal Experiences & Engineering Challenges |
| June 14, 2022 | Dr. James Garvin, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Scientist | Sounding the Venus Atmosphere with DAVINCI |
| May 10, 2022 | Dr. Michelle Thaller, Goddard astronomer and science communicator | The James Webb Space Telescope: New Eyes on the Universe |
| April 12, 2022 | Dr. Paul Mahaffy, Goddard Emeritus Scientist and retired Solar System Exploration Division Chief | Goddard’s Contributions to the Exploration of Planets, Moon, and Primitive Bodies in the Solar System |
| March 8, 2022 | Matt Radcliff, Senior Video and Multimedia Producer in the Goddard Office of Communications | Bringing NASA’s Story Back Down to Earth |
| February 8, 2022 | Dr. James Irons, retired Director of the Earth Sciences Division & Landsat 8 Project Scientist | Earth Science at GSFC |
| November 9, 2021 | Dr. David DeVorkin, Senior Curator, History of Astronomy and the Space Sciences, at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution | Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the US Space Sciences after World War II |
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