Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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At the moment, it's still NASA's largest base in terms of people that go there.

I think they're down a little bit.

But when I was there, there were about 10,000 people that worked there every day.

And that's pretty incredible.

I mean, one statistic they had is that if Goddard were to leave NASA, then Goddard would become the world's second largest space program.

I mean, Goddard itself is bigger than the other space programs, you know, around the world.

Well, yeah.

So, I mean, the Hubble Space Telescope was built largely at Goddard.

The observatory part of the James Webb Space Telescope.

We build the GOES satellites, the weather satellites.

I mean, yeah.

I mean, there's four huge science divisions.

You've got Earth science, which is the biggest one.

And then heliophysics, study of the sun, the Space Weather Action Center.

You know, all the stuff the sun's thrown at us.

And then you've got the planetary stuff and the astrophysics stuff.

It's the world's largest science space that we know of.

It's been a couple years of, I mean, I really feel for all of these people, all my former friends, and so many of them have left.

I mean, I've seen some of our absolute best scientists, and not only that, our best engineers.

One of my best friends, who's just an incredible kick-ass systems engineer, she got scooped up by Switzerland.

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