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THE JOURNEY TO PALOMAR -- A NEW DOCUMENTARY
November 3, 2008 Guests: Robin Mason, Todd Mason Select Format: MP3 Windows Media We journey to the Palomar Observatory to visit with filmmakers Robin and Todd Mason who have created a great new public television documentary about George Ellery Hale, builder of what were the... more »
ANDREW CHAIKIN'S PASSION FOR MARS
October 27, 2008 Guests: Andrew Chaikin Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The author of "A Man on the Moon" has just written "A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet." He talks about this inspiring new work from his Vermont home. Is the Cassini mission to... more »
MESSENGER SAILS BY MERCURY FOR A SECOND FLYBY
October 20, 2008 Guests: Sean Solomon Select Format: MP3 Windows Media MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon returns with an exclusive report on the spacecraft's very successful second flyby of Mercury. Bill Nye has news about a distinguished new President for... more »
CASSINI AT SATURN: AN UPDATE FROM LINDA SPILKER
October 13, 2008 Guests: Linda Spilker Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Deputy Project Scientist for the Cassini Mission provides another report on the exciting discoveries being made in the Saturnian system. Bill Nye the Science Guy looks for leadership from NASA. ... more »
WHERE TO LOOK FOR LIFE ON MARS
October 6, 2008 Guests: Roger Buick Select Format: MP3 Windows Media University of Washington Professor Roger Buick has good advice about where a new rover should look for life on the Red Planet. He also looks for the origin of life on this planet. A double helping... more »
PUBLIC OUTREACH AND AMATEURS IN SPACE!
September 29, 2008 Guests: Doug Ellison Select Format: MP3 Windows Media A growing legion of amateur space scientists and others is helping to get the word out about missions throughout the solar system. Some of them are even delivering valuable new science from mission... more »
ANN DRUYAN ON NEW HONORS FOR CARL SAGAN
September 22, 2008 Guests: Ann Druyan Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Longtime partner Ann Druyan is proud of NASA's new Carl Sagan Fellowships. Bill Nye has a tribute for his old professor. more »
ASTROPULSE: A NEW WAY FOR ET TO PHONE HOME
September 15, 2008 Guests: Dan Werthimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer returns to tell us about a new search now underway on many of SETI@home's one million computers. Astropulse is looking for signals that may reach us as quick,... more »
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SPACE TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT ALEXIS LIVANOS
September 8, 2008 Guests: Alexis Livanos Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Engineer, scientist, and executive Livanos talks about his company's fifty years of support for space science, the status of the James Webb Space Telescope, and his passionate concern about climate... more »
THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ASTRONOMICAL WONDERS
September 1, 2008 Guests: Robert Bruce Thompson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media It may be the only book amateur astronomers need. We'll talk with Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders co-author Robert Bruce Thompson. Bill Nye provides reassurance regarding dependence on... more » |
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