Apollo 8 was NASA’s first mission to fly humans around the Moon. I interviewed Astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman to honor their work and memories.
Apollo 9 was the first mission to fly the Lunar Module. I created this video to mark the 50th Anniversary of that mission.
Apollo 10 was the first mission to test the Lunar Module in the Moon’s orbit. I interviewed Astronaut Thomas Stafford about his work on this mission and how the mission paved the way for the Moon Landing.
Nasa’s Apollo 11 mission changed the course of history with the first humans to set foot on the Moon. To mark the 50th Anniversary, I interviewed NASA Astronauts Michael Collins and Charlie Duke. Additionally, i interviewed Historian Andrew Chaikin.
I served as the Lead Video Producer for NASA’s 2 hour TV broadcast honoring the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. I managed, coordinated and produced 76 video elements from multiple NASA Centers and external video producers.
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Exploration is a tradition at NASA. We reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind.
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A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet. Cassini's plunge brings to a close a series of 22 weekly "Grand Finale" dives between Saturn and its rings, a feat never before attempted by any spacecraft.
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The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Over the 40 years since launch, both spacecraft sent back breathtaking images that further our knowledge of the solar system.
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The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Rather, they established the concept of the research aircraft, built solely for experimental purposes. NASA continues this legacy of experimental aircraft today.
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On May 23, the Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot gave a State of NASA address at Headquarters to rollout the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget proposal. This video highlights the future-facing vision of those plans.
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NASA helped the town of Mars, Pennsylvania ring in the Martian New Year, May 5-6. Citizens of the town, just north of Pittsburgh, invited the agency to help celebrate Mars New Year, which happens about every two Earth years.
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Amy Leniart produced, wrote and edited Innovation Workshop: Nanotechnology, which is the 3rd installment of this educational STEM series.
Amy Leniart worked with the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to explore this cutting-edge science and create a resource for science teachers to use in the classroom. Innovation Workshop: Nanotechnology is distributed nationally through the Fairfax Network for free to educators via broadcast, iTunes, Roku and YouTube.
The show was featured on the official White House blog as an example of educational videos that educate and inspire students.
For her work on this program, Amy Leniart won an Emmy Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 58th Emmy Awards event held on June 25, 2016. The Emmy Award was given for the category of Technology: Program/Special.
How small is small? And how can nanoscale matter improve our lives?
Nanotechnology is an innovation with big potential even though it’s small in size. Through an interview with Joseph Stroscio at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, students will learn about moving atoms, electron clouds and how temperature effects matter.
Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes are wonder materials both made entirely from carbon atoms. Innovation Workshop explores their structure of matter and how engineers can build with these new materials.
Innovation Workshop Student Reporter shows a sneak peek into the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s NanoFab where scientists work in a clean room to build highly structured circuits.
Amy Leniart produced, wrote and edited Innovation Workshop: Harnessing the Sun, which is the 2nd installment of this educational STEM series.
Amy Leniart worked in partnership with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to create this educational program that explores the science and engineering of how radiant energy is transformed into other useful forms of energy. Amy Leniart coordinated with the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to show the impact on our everyday lives and to highlight the future of energy production.
Most of us just plug our cell phone into an electrical outlet. What if you only had sunlight to charge your cell phone? What innovations would be helpful?
How is the Sun’s Radiant energy transferred? To understand how radiant energy moves, we need to learn about transverse waves.
Radiant energy is organized by wavelength and frequency in a model called the electromagnetic spectrum.
So, how do we study the Sun? Looking directly at the Sun is both dangerous and a waste of time. It’s just too bright to see any detail with your eye. At the Phoebe Waterman Haas Observatory at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, you can use special solar telescopes to get a better view of the sun.
At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Skylab back-up flight vehicle showcases how we began to understand the sun from space.
Since you can’t exactly run an extension cord down to Earth, the sun’s radiant energy is vital to the International Space Station. Eight solar arrays are arranged like wings.
The pioneering spirit in aviation showcases clean, renewable energy technologies and the real power of energy transformation.
As technologies advance so does our way of living. Researchers, scientists, engineers and policy makers strive for technologies that provide clean, renewable energy.
Amy Leniart co-produced, wrote and edited Innovation Workshop: Building Discovery, which is the 1st installment of this educational STEM series.
Amy Leniart worked in partnership with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to create this educational program that explores the design and development of the Space Shuttles.
For this project, Amy Leniart coordinated with Smithsonian curators, NASA scientists and educators to develop the show. The project began with filming the 'Welcome Discovery' event as the Space Shuttle Discovery arrived in Washington DC.
Through science demonstrations, explanatory graphics, archival footage and interviews with experts, Amy Leniart carefully tells the story of how engineers created one of the most magnifict machines ever built--a reusable space plane.
Safely lauching humans into space and returning them to Earth meant the design and development of the vehicle that transported them must be precise.
As the Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, achievements and innovations of this flight vehicle are celebrated.
Early in the 20th century, dreams of jettisoning into space aboard a plane-like space ship filled popular culture in comic strips, movies and even toys. Though, the actual scientific research into building a space shuttle has some interesting origins.
The early Phase A Space Shuttle design studies focused on a fully reusable vehicle whose primary purpose was to build and support a space station.
So, what's as cold as interstellar space on the inside and as hot as a small star on the outside?
Give up? The Space Shuttle Main Engines during a launch.
Imagine eating and sleeping in space! Astronaut Kathryn Hire shares stories about her work and time spent aboard the space shuttle.
This 5 part video series is used at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center museum as part of an alternate reality game.
Each video shares an historic aviator, showcases modern aerobatic pilots and instructs students on their mission to design a plane that will beat Jimmy Doolittle to the Outside Loop.
Smithsonian TechQuest: Flying Circus is an alternate reality game set in the thrilling era of aviation when daring pilots zoomed across the sky and airplane designers pushed boundaries. In 1927, the famed pilot Jimmy Doolittle debuted an aerobatic maneuver called an Outside Loop. The game challenges students to design a plane that will perform the Outside Loop and beat Doolittle at setting the record.
