Dare to Explore

Dare to Explore features interviews with friends of the Rocket Center, Space Camp Alum, engineers, scientists, and explorers of all types.

About the show

Dare to Explore is a podcast from the Space Camp Explorers Club featuring interviews with friends of the Rocket Center, Space Camp Alumni, engineers, scientists, and explorers of all types.

Episodes

  • Episode 5: Susie Martínez

    May 17th, 2021  |  27 mins 10 secs
    astronauts, boeing, education, engineering, flight, launch, math, nasa, rocket, rockets, science, scientists, space, space x, stem

    Susie Martínez is an additive manufacturing engineer for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She received her Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2019. Calling herself a "STEMinist," Susie has more than 64,000 followers on Instagram, where she uses her platform to encourage and mentor women in pursuing science and engineering careers.

  • Episode 4: Suzanne Saltz

    April 16th, 2021  |  33 mins 17 secs

  • Episode 3: Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides

    March 16th, 2021  |  32 mins 37 secs
    astronaut, galactic, science, space, space camp, stem

    Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is an alumni of Space Camp and author of The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring Out the Best in You. Co-founder of global space party Yuri’s Night, Whitesides is a Founder Astronaut with Virgin Galactic and creator of SpaceKind leadership training.

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    Episode 2: Kenny Mitchell

    March 16th, 2021  |  28 mins 46 secs
    apollo, education, elon, elon musk, mars, moon, nasa, saturn, saturn 5, science, space, spacex, stem

    Kenny Mitchell is a retired NASA engineer of 40 years. Mitchell worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center on the development of the Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon in 1969 and developed Environmental Control and Life Support Systems for Skylab and the International Space Station.

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    Episode 1: Homer Hickam

    March 15th, 2021  |  29 mins 22 secs
    education, science, space, stem

    Homer Hickam is a former NASA aerospace engineer, Vietnam veteran, and acclaimed author of 19 books. The 1999 film October Sky was based on his memoir, Rocket Boys. Hickam was responsible for training astronauts for Spacelab and the Hubble Space Telescope launch and repair, as well as serving as payload training manager for the International Space Station.