Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Booking Overview

This NASA-produced technical interview and explainer podcast focuses on spaceflight, aerospace engineering, mission systems, and the technical workforce, with interviews typically featuring NASA specialists and mission personnel. Credible candidates include aerospace engineers, human-factors researchers, life-support and spacecraft-systems experts, flight-mechanics specialists, and space-mission operations leaders; booking difficulty is high because the show favors highly specialized experts with NASA or comparable institutional credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 181

Frequency: Every two weeks

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 15.1M subscribers

Instagram: 104.0M followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

katie.konans@nasa.gov

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior aerospace, spaceflight, or engineering professionals with deep technical expertise, mission experience, and leadership responsibility at NASA or a comparable aerospace organization.

Required Achievements:

Technical leadership on major aerospace or spaceflight programs, Specialized expertise in spacecraft systems, mission operations, engineering, or human factors, Responsibility for advancing or implementing complex space-mission capabilities

Recent Guest Discussions

Cynthia Null - Human Capabilities And Limitations In Engineering, Risk Reduction, And Designing Safer Space Missions

Heather Koehler - Knowledge Transfer Across People, Programs, And Generations Within Nasa’s Technical Workforce

Kassandra Stephens - Communicating With International Space Station Crews And Supporting Research And Experiments In Orbit

Recent Topics

Science, Space Exploration, Aerospace Engineering, Human Factors, Spaceflight Systems

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind - Part 2 of 2

September 30, 2026

Dr. Cynthia Null, NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors, discusses the myths of human limitations and how she got involved in the scientific discipline of human factors.

Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind - Part 1 of 2

September 16, 2026

Dr. Cynthia Null, NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors, discusses how understanding human capabilities and limitations can help engineers reduce risk and design safer, more successful missions from the start.

Passing Down Knowledge

September 02, 2026

Heather Koehler, NASA Technical Fellow for Flight Mechanics, explains how knowledge at NASA is passed from person to person, program to program.

Publicly listed emails

katie.konans@nasa.gov

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