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Get a close-up look at the celestial bodies in our universe from one of the Kansas City region's observatories, or see shooting stars with your naked eye during the Perseids meteor shower in August.
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The crystal clear images of galaxies far, far away being produced by the James Webb Telescope are stunning. But the groundbreaking information being gathered by scientists as a result of those images is the telescope's greatest benefit.
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At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to attend a special astronaut training program. He tells the story of what happened next.
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Last month, NASA announced that it had identified 5,000 different exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system. Some of these worlds are unlike anything you'll find in our little corner of the universe.
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As Bob Behnken can attest, when the hatch opens for a spacewalk, "All that meticulousness can go a little bit out the window because of the excitement of looking down at our earth."
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How Kansas is navigating the impending reopening of its public schools, when and why face masks protect us from coronavirus infection, and how language might evolve during interstellar space travel.
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In a show inspired by the film Hidden Figures, we hear local stories, like the story of Ed Dwight, a KCK native, came close to being the black man on a…
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Segment 1: Making greeting cards more diverse.Cards are about relationships. So if none of the greeting cards on the shelf represent the person you're…
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Segment 1: A KU research team got a grant to bring technology training to women's prisons.The population of women in U.S. prisons has risen 834 percent…
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Segment 1: A NASA Hall-of-Famer discusses the Apollo 11 mission.Five decades after witnessing the first man step on the moon, Lynn Bondurant shared his…
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Segment 1: Local lawyer finds a niche in space lawSpace is an exciting new frontier, challenging humanity to advance in math, science, and engineering.…
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Segment 1: What draws people to hate movements and how to escape Mindy Corporon, whose father and son were murdered by a neo-Nazi outside the Jewish…