2014 NASA Budget Hangout: Initial Reactions

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

We take questions and analyze the White House's 2014 NASA budget proposal.

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Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: The Ice Giants, with Heidi Hammel

Guests

• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
• Heidi Hammel, Vice President of the Board of Directors, The Planetary Society

My guest was Planetary Society Board vice president Heidi Hammel. We discussed two planets near and dear to our hearts, Neptune and Uranus. What's new on these icy worlds since Voyager 2 passed by, and what are the prospects for their future exploration?

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Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Programming in the Sciences

Guests

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

Should all scientists be required to get formal training in computer science? Should they release their code as open-source software to the public? We talk with Chase Million, founder of Million Concepts, which provides scientific programming contracting to research scientists.

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Bill Nye Celebrates a Major Political Victory for the Planetary Society

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

The President signed a spending bill that includes an extra $223 million for Planetary Science at NASA in 2013, restoring almost the entire proposed cut for this productive, successful program.

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Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Reports from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Guests

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

Emily Lakdawalla reports from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and Casey Dreier reports on great news for Planetary Science funding at NASA.

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ALMA Adventure--Video Clips From the Radio Telescope's Inauguration in Chile's Atacama Desert

Mat Kaplan traveled to Chile's Atacama Desert for the inauguration of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array. Here's the video that complements his coverage on Planetary Radio. Watch the giant dishes do their cosmic dance! Feel the wind at 16,500 feet/5,000 meters! See the custom-built, 28-wheel transporter pull a 110-ton dish onto its back! Hear ISS astronauts congratulate the international ALMA team!

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Planetary Society Hangout: March 7th, 2013 - What's Going On With Curiosity and a NASA Budget Update

Guests

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

The Curiosity rover hit an unexpected snag last week and had to switch over to a backup computer. It's coming out of "Safe Mode" operations later this week, but JPL engineers are still trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. We talk to Emily Lakdawalla to find out more.

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Planetcast Webcast: Asteroid 2012 DA 14 AND the Meteor Airburst

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer
• Jaime Nomen, astronomer, Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra (La Sagra Observatory)

Watch the recording of our popular webcast about these two historic events, featuring Bill Nye and Bruce Betts.

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Planetary Society Hangout: Asteroid Astronomy with Andy Rivkin

Guests

• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
• Andrew Rivkin, Senior Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory

Emily and Andy talked about the menagerie of rocks in the asteroid belt, how many of them travel in pairs and triples, how some of them are surprisingly wet, and how much you can learn about asteroids using Earth-based telescopes.

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Planetary Society Hangout: Feb 21st, 2013 - The Spectre of Sequester at NASA with Jon Morse

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