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von Kármán Lecture Series
Keeping an Eye on Earth's Changing Climate: The Ocean Surface Topography Mission
Presented by Dr. Parag Vaze
Ocean Surface Topography Mission Project Manager
Tune in at 9 p.m. CST on Thursday, August 21, 2008
and again on
Friday, August 22, 2008
(requires RealPlayer).

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Astronomy & Science
on Radio and Television

In San Antonio StarDate may be heard on KPAC FM 88.3 daily at 2:57AM, 7:57 AM, 7:00PM, and 9:57PM and on KSTX FM 89.1 daily at 9:00AM and 7:00PM.

Universo pone especial enfasis en el desarrollo de los astrónomo hispanos en los Estados Unidos y en el resto del mundo, la mitologia y observaciones del cielo por las culturas de Mesoamerica, especialmente las Mayas, las Aztecas, y las Incas.

En San Antonio Universo Radio puede ser oído en KZDC AM 1250 en Mar 2:35PM y Mie 2:35PM.

Earth & Sky is not aired in San Antonio.

Star Hustler is the world's first and only do-it-yourself syndicated weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy ( star and planet gazing). Each five minute weekly episode features objects currently visible in the night sky and shows how to find them. It is always current and topical and is aimed at the person who knows little or nothing about astronomy.

Travel The Universe. From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in this epic exploration of the Universe and its mysteries.

Journey to the red planet with Mars Rising. Mars Rising offers a comprehensive examination of the challenges, the obstacles, the fears and the successes of the mission and experts with diverse backgrounds and nationalities contributed their knowledge to this series. Producers Galafilm secured unprecedented co-operation from the NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and various Russian space agencies and contractors like Energia, gaining access to top personnel and up-to-the-minute prototypes. Over 300 scientists were consulted for the series and more than 60 experts, including former and current astronauts, appear on camera. Critical subjects covered include spaceship design, possible trajectories, rocket fuel, finding new life forms, new thoughts on astronaut selection and training, space suit engineering, medical training for deep space, blasting through Mars’ atmosphere, life support systems and robotics.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until 1990's The Civil War, and is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.[1] It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 600 million people, according to the Science Channel. A book to accompany the series was also published.

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.