Our conversation with Jack Black and his brother Neil Siegal about their Mother, Judith Love Cohen was too good just to give you just the taste from the end of our Star Search episode. Here's the extended producers cut with everything from Jack's birth story, to being an engineer in the 70s, to Judy's 2nd career as a book publisher.

Thanks to Jack Black and Neil Siegal for sharing their memories about their Mom.

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There are a lot of air and space celebrities; pilots, astronauts, engineers, etc etc. But there's another category of celebrities that are famous for other things but also have surprising ties to air or space. Today we're talking about three of those; a famous tv chef who also helped create a shark repellant for aviators and spacecraft, an actor from Hollywood's golden years who invented the basis for wifi, and an aerospace engineer who worked on Apollo and more--and also has a pretty famous kid. Stay tuned to the end for a special celebrity guest.

Thanks to our guests in this episode:

• Paula Johnson, Curator of Food History-Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
• Dr. Andrew Meade McGee, Curator of Computing-National Air and Space Museum
• Dr. Teasel Muir Harmony, Curator of the Apollo Program-National Air and Space Museum
• Dr. Neil Siegal and his brother, Jack Black

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When the Chandra X-Ray Observatory launched 25 years ago, it showed us our universe in a whole new light (literally). From the remnants of exploded stars to Jupiter's auroras, Chandra has shown us so many beautiful and scientifically important sights. Even after a quarter decade this unique telescope is still giving us new data about black holes and whirling neutron stars and all the things out in space that give off x-rays.

Thanks to our guest in this episode:

• Dr. Daniel Castro - Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Megan Lin - Chandra X-Ray Observatory Flight Operations Team Lead

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