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WOMEN IN SPACE
December 8, 2003
Guests: Bettyann Kevles
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Science author Bettyann Kevles has just written Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space. She's...  more »

A WES HUNTRESS ENCORE FOR THE BEGINNING OF OUR SECOND SEASON
December 1, 2003
Guests: Wes Huntress
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New Question and Answer and What's Up! segments accompany a post-Thanksgiving encore for Dr. Wes Huntress, former Associate Administrator of NASA and current Planetary Society President.  more »

ONE YEAR OF PLANETARY RADIO
November 24, 2003
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Celebrate one year of our show with highlights from the past. Bruce Betts interviews Mat for a change, as Emily speculates about what Earth's climate would be like if our home planet didn't rotate....  more »

THE PLANETARY SOCIETY'S RED ROVER GOES TO MARS PROJECT WITH EMILY LAKDAWALLA
November 17, 2003
Guests: Emily Lakdawalla
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Planetary Radio's Emily Lakdawalla is Science and Technology Coordinator for the Planetary Society. We talk with her about the Society's Red Rover Goes to Mars Project on the Mars Exploration Rover...  more »

MOON ROCKS, MARTIAN METEORITES AND MORE AT THE NASA ASTROMATERIALS LAB
November 10, 2003
Guests: Carlton Allen
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Carlton Allen is Curator of the only facility of its kind on Earth, the Johnson Space Center Astromaterials Lab. He talks about the past accomplishments, including a half-ton of Apollo moon rocks,...  more »

A SOUTH AFRICAN TEEN JOINS THE STUDENT ASTRONAUTS
November 3, 2003
Guests: Hal Walker, Bettye Walker
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The sixteen Student Astronauts will soon be arriving at JPL from around the world. One of them is 15-year-old Nomathemba Kontyo of South Africa. She and the other teens will join the Mars Exploration...  more »

THE PLANETARY SOCIETY GOES TO WASHINGTON
October 27, 2003
Guests: Bruce Murray, Wes Huntress, Louis Friedman
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On October 16, the Planetary Society's President Wes Huntress and its Board Chairman Bruce Murray testified before the House Committee on Science in Washington on the future of space flight. Hear...  more »

CHINA JOINS THE SPACEFARING NATIONS CLUB
October 20, 2003
Guests: James Oberg
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Move over, astronauts and cosmonauts--the taikonauts are here! International space program expert James Oberg tells us how the Chinese became the third nation to put a human into orbit with his...  more »

TO THE MOON WITH THE LUNAR PROSPECTOR
October 13, 2003
Guests: Alan Binder
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Alan Binder of the Lunar Research Institute tells the story of his highly successful yet inexpensive moon mission, Lunar Prospector. Emily Lakdawalla examines lunar law, and Bruce Betts talks about...  more »

THE MOON, ION ENGINES, AND HELIUM 3 ...WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?
October 6, 2003
Guests: Bernard Foing
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Europe's SMART-1 is on its way to the moon, powered by an ion engine. We hear from Bernard Foing right after the launch, and then look back to the only other spacecraft propelled by solar...  more »