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LIFE Heads for Space Aboard Shuttle Endeavour

Air Date: 04/18/2011
Run Time: 0:28:52

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Guests:

• Amy Smith, ATCC Scientist,
• Tim Lilburn, ATCC Scientist,

Topics:

ATCC scientists Tim Lilburn and Amy Smith have loaded a microbe zoo into tiny tubes that will soon launch on Space Shuttle Endeavour. Emily Lakdawalla reports that liquid methane worlds like Titan may be common in the galaxy. Fifty years after Yuri Gargarin's flight, Bill Nye sees commercial spaceflight coming on strong. A celebrity Random Space Fact comes to What's Up with Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan. You might win the new space trivia contest.

Related Links:

• Shuttle LIFE Project
• Tour the ATCC Lab
• Are There More Titans Than Earths in the Milky Way?
• Brown Paper Tickets for Free May 28 Planetary Radio Live Tickets
• Bill Nye's Your Place in Space (MP3)

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