Derrick Pitts
Born: 1955-01-22
Derrick Pitts is an American astronomer and science communicator. Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the institute's Fels Planetarium.
Miniverse
as SelfReleased: 2017-04-17
What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to...
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Looking for Life on Mars
as SelfReleased: 2021-02-21
NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a...
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Pluto and Beyond
as HimselfReleased: 2019-08-03
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most...
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Touching the Asteroid
as SelfReleased: 2020-10-22
Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so...
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UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
as Self – Chief Astronomer, The Franklin InstituteFirst aired: 2023-02-13
The truth behind the U.S. government's secret Pentagon program on UAPs, Unidentified Aerial...
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