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MARS EXPLORATION ROVER PROGRAM MANAGER JOHN CALLAS
November 19, 2007 Guests: John Callas Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Hard to believe it has been almost four years (and two Martian years) since the first Mars Exploration Rover crawled onto the surface of the Red Planet. John Callas of JPL provides a status report... more »
TO PHOBOS AND BACK
November 13, 2007 Guests: Alexander Zakharov, Tom Duxbury, Bruce Betts Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Highlights of a Planetary Society seminar about the little potato-shaped moon of Mars. We'll hear from Tom Duxbury, Phobos expert at JPL, from Alexander Zakharov of the Russian Space Research... more »
BUILDING THE J-2X ROCKET ENGINE FOR THE RETURN TO THE MOON
November 5, 2007 Guests: John Vilja Select Format: MP3 Windows Media John Vilja is Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne's Program Manager in charge of building the latest version of a rocket engine with a very distinguished legacy. He tells us about its development and how... more »
THE UNIVERSE IN ULTRAVIOLET: BILL BLAIR ON THE FUSE MISSION
October 29, 2007 Guests: Bill Blair Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer is dead, and astrophysicist Bill Blair helped to kill it. He tells us why, and shares the wonder of this very successful eight-year mission. Emily... more »
MARK SHOWALTER: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF PLANETARY RINGS
October 22, 2007 Guests: Mark Showalter Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Planetary astronomer Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe is one of our planet's foremost experts on the rings surrounding Saturn and other... more »
SPACE ELEVATOR GAMES AND SERIOUS PLANETARY SCIENCE
October 15, 2007 Guests: Ben Shelef, Emily Lakdawalla Select Format: MP3 Windows Media A busy show features a preview of the Spaceward Games from Spaceward Foundation co-founder Ben Shelef, working toward achieving the technology that would enable a space elevator. Then Emily... more »
CELEBRATING SPUTNIK WITH LOUIS FRIEDMAN IN MOSCOW
October 8, 2007 Guests: Louis Friedman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The 50th anniversary of the beginning of the space age found Planetary Society Executive Director Louis Friedman in Moscow. We'll talk to Lou about the celebration there, and how the first human... more »
HOMER HICKAM, THE ORIGINAL ROCKET BOY, REVISITS HIS OCTOBER SKY
October 1, 2007 Guests: Homer Hickam Select Format: MP3 Windows Media His memoir, The Rocket Boys, was turned into the wonderful 1999 film, October Sky. Homer Hickam looks back on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik One's launch. It was the dawn of the space age and it... more »
A NEW RACE TO THE MOON: THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE
September 24, 2007 Guests: Buzz Aldrin, Shana Dale, Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk, Larry Page Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The X Prize Foundation announced its newest competition a few days ago. The Google Lunar X Prize competition will award $20 million to the first private team to put a successful rover on the Moon,... more »
CASSINI AT WEIRD IAPETUS
September 17, 2007 Guests: Tilmann Denk Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Cassini spacecraft made its one and only close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus last week. It confirmed that the black and white sphere is one of the strangest bodies in the solar system. Imaging... more » |
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