Has Voyager 1 left the Solar System?

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society

Has Voyager 1 left the Solar System? What does it mean that it has entered interstellar space? Bruce Betts discusses in this short video.

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Planetary Radio LIVE Webcast of LADEE's Launch to the Moon

Guests

• David Paige, Professor of Planetary Sciences, UCLA
• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
• Mat Kaplan

Join lunar scientist Dr. David Paige, LADEE EPO Coordinator Brian Day, Bill Nye, and the Society's Mat Kaplan and Dr. Bruce Betts in front of a crowd of 150 space fans as they celebrate LADEE's launch to the Moon.

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Special Hangout: Curiosity's First Year on Mars with Dr. Ashwin Vasavada

Guests

• Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society
• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society

We celebrate the first full year of operations on the martian surface with Deputy Project Scientist Dr. Ashwin Vasavada from JPL

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Bill Nye's Washington Advocacy Report - July 2013

The latest update from Bill Nye on The Planetary Society's Save our Science advocacy campaign.

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The Space Computer and the Beautiful Worlds

The Cassini mission to Saturn--described using only the one thousand most common English words, in the style of "Up Goer 5"

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Planetary Society Hangout: What's going on with Planetary Science cuts?

Guests

• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
• Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society

Planetary Society Advocacy Coordinator Casey Dreier discusses the background and latest funding problems facing Planetary Science at NASA. Emily Lakdawalla joins him to talk about her visit to Washington, D.C. to talk about planetary missions.

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Thank You for Writing to Save Our Science, Can you Send to a Friend?

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Thanks for helping to Save Our Science by writing your Congressional representatives about NASA's Planetary Science Budget. Can you take a minute and forward this message to your friends and colleagues?

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Planetary Society Hangout: A Day in the Life of the Opportunity Rover with Emily Dean

Guests

• Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society

Emily Dean has worked on Opportunity since its inception, starting when she was a high school student. While working on the mission, she followed her passion in art and architecture, and still works on Opportunity to this day. We explore how her unique background affects her work and what it's like to work on Opportunity day to day (or is it sol to sol?).

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Hangout on Air with Michael Puzio, Kid Who Named Asteroid Bennu

Guests

• Michael Puzio, age 9, Bennu
• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
• Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator, University of Arizona

Meet the kid who named Bennu! Bennu will be the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission. The name was suggested by 9-year-old Michael Puzio in a contest that attracted more than 8000 entries.

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2013 Planetary Defense Conference--Part 5: Bill Nye Joins Inspiring Panel Discussion

Guests

• Brent Barbee, Flight Dynamics Engineer, Goddard space Flight Center
• Mat Kaplan
• Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Lab
• Cathy Plesko, Applied Physics Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• David Trilling, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University

Moderator Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio leads a lively and inspiring conversation in the grand finale of the PDC public event. Four outstanding young leaders in the planetary defense community join Bill and Mat on stage.

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