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Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 6 · 2012: 5 · 2013: 3

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What the videos say

2007

2010

  • 2010-04-20 · I Shall BLOW YOUR MIND — Using a dot on his hand, Hank shows the tiny patch of sky NASA scientists pointed Hubble at: empty, with no visible stars, galaxies or nebulae, so some asked why photograph nothing. (00:00:58)

2011

  • 2011-02-03 · Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope — To people who say NASA's money could be better spent on services for humanity, Hank answers that he does not want a world that only focuses on suck and never on awesome. (00:00:35)
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — John did see that NASA tweeted Hank's video, and is glad Hank is less space-obsessed than at 16, when it might have made his brain explode. (00:00:11)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Less than half of US science spending goes to NASA; NASA's share of a federal dollar is under half a penny, yet it is about $18 billion. (00:01:12)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — NASA maintains a space station, 'a five-bedroom house in outer space', constantly inhabited for over ten years: our first permanent foothold in space, where countless studies are done. (00:01:39)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — NASA is launching a remote-controlled laboratory, 'pretty much a remote-controlled SUV', to Mars with ten times the payload of any interplanetary mission, to ask whether Mars once harbored life. (00:02:00)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — NASA is building a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that can see 13.4 billion years into the past, to the origins of the universe. (00:02:16)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — NASA invites the private sector into the space industry with patents on its technologies, fostering a new economic sector. (00:02:30)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — NASA placed the first artificial satellite around Mercury, makes air travel faster, safer and greener, and is building the first high-resolution X-ray telescope. (00:02:39)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Ironically concluding the list ('besides that, NASA doesn't do much'), Hank says NASA receives 0.45% of US tax dollars. (00:03:25)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank is happy to give his money to NASA because he wants his government doing awesome things; he believes in his country's ability to be awesome. (00:03:30)
  • 2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — A NASA voice (apparently Braun) says NASA will turn its attention to deep space, places not visited before, while low orbit remains a fantastic laboratory. (00:01:57)
  • 2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — Hank says NASA's crewed exploration program might become one of his generation's most significant legacies for humankind. (00:03:24)
  • …and 7 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

  • 2012-03-09 · The Future of Manned Space Exploration — Hank says NASA announced the new Space Launch System in September 2011, a next step whose crews will travel beyond the space station's routine trips. (00:00:00)
  • 2012-04-06 · Can I be Space President? — Hank's video about the Webb telescope about a year ago apparently delighted NASA, which tweeted at him; it circulated in the offices of NASA and its contractors. (00:00:33)
  • 2012-04-06 · Can I be Space President? — Many NASA contractors are also defense contractors: the missions differ, maybe antithetically, but building advanced one-of-a-kind machinery poses surprisingly similar technical challenges. (00:01:23)
  • 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — John says astronaut John Young once got the farts on the moon and swore about it, the first F-bomb on the moon; NASA told Commander Young he had a live mic, and Young asked how long it had been on. (00:01:50)
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John says the James Webb Space Telescope is being built primarily by Northrop Grumman and funded by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, with about 17 countries involved. (00:00:00)
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — For Hank's birthday John wrote an email to his congressman, Andre Carson, asking him to make sure NASA gets the funding it needs. (00:01:13)
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John says the PMBSS holds the whole telescope together and is made largely of a graphite composite tubing that is very strong but very light; the piece weighs about as much as a paperclip. (00:01:43)
  • 2012-09-04 · The Five Worst Places to Vomit — Many astronauts have puked; vomiting in a spacesuit can be fatal through aspiration, so NASA added air currents around the suit's face to push vomit away. (00:01:41)

2013

  • 2013-03-12 · Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) — John says discretionary spending covers things from veterans' affairs, highways and NASA to science research and meat inspectors, but more than half of it goes to defense. (00:01:26)
  • 2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs — Hank hopes that looking around Google Earth Engine, based on NASA's 'fantastic' Landsat program, might give us a better understanding of our realities and so lead to better decisions. (00:02:48)
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says museums, national parks, the EPA and NASA basically close, while defense, transportation security, border patrol, food inspectors and emergency readiness staff are exempted and keep working. (00:02:29)