Spaceflight Mechanics: The Cornell Space Technology Podcast

Spaceflight Mechanics: The Cornell Space Technology Podcast

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Spaceflight Mechanics is hosted by Professor Mason Peck & Professor Elaine Petro at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. This podcast features conversations with leaders in space technology about where we are now and where we are going.

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Sibley 300

Season 1May 6, 202422 min

This is the second of two special episodes of Spaceflight Mechanics to feature time travel. Having acquired near-immortality, Elaine and Mason discuss their experiences from their perspective in the year 2174 and reflect upon how space technology has changed since they launched the podcast 150 years

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Sibley 0

Season 1Apr 22, 202433 min

This special episode of Spaceflight Mechanics features time travel. In recognition of the sesquicentennial of mechanical engineering at Cornell, we go back 150 years to the origins of the University and speak to one of its Founders, Andrew Dickson White. We get his take on the origins of mechanical

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The Zeroth Law of Deploying Structures

Season 1Apr 8, 202445 min

Mason and Elaine talk with Manan Arya, Assistant Professor at Stanford University. They discuss very smart structural strategies, why we want to fold and unfold things in space, and "other things we know how to do as a species."