Episode 1 | Build It: Faster, Better, Cheaper

Lockheed Martin Space Makers

Deep space exploration can be a high-stakes venture and any failures can be costly, setting you back years. In an era of significant budget cuts, learn how NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Lockheed Martin innovations made spacecraft faster, better, and cheaper and changed the future of building spacecraft for deep space exploration.

We “flash forward” into what the future might look like 50 years from now. An expert discusses how digital transformation—using AI and machine-learning algorithms that process high-rate data—will be instrumental in accomplishing missions of the future.

To dig deeper into some of the incredible missions referenced in today’s episode, please follow these links:

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory History

NASA Discovery Program – Past and Future Missions

Stardust Mission

Mars Polar Lander

Mars Climate Orbiter

Mars Odyssey

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars Phoenix Mission

Lockheed Martin Pony Express

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Credits:

Space Makers is a production of Lockheed Martin Space.

Episode guests were Calvin Craig, Rob Manning, Andy Speicher, and Johnathon Caldwell, and they are Space Makers.

It’s executive produced by Pavan Desai.

Senior producer is Lauren Cole.

Senior producer, writer, and host is Ben Dinsmore.

Associate producer and writer is Kaitlin Benz and Audrey Dods.

Sound design and audio mastered by Julian Giraldo.

Graphic design by Tim Roesch.

Marketing and recruiting by Joe Portnoy, Shannon Myers, and Stephanie Dixon.

These stories would not be possible without the support from our space communications professionals Tracy Weise, Natalya Oleksik, Gary Napier, Lauren Duda, and Dani Hauf.