|
Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Date
ON THE EDGE OF SCIENCE: THE NASA INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONCEPTS
November 8, 2004 Guests: Robert Cassanova Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The NIAC is charged with identifying and encouraging concepts in space science and engineering that no other agency will touch. We talk with its Director, Robert Cassanova. Emily Lakdawalla... more »
BLACK CATS AND OTHER MYSTERIES--CASSINI-HUYGENS AT SATURN'S MOON TITAN
November 1, 2004 Guests: Toby Owen Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Special coverage of the first Cassini-Huygens flyby of smog-shrouded Titan, including an interview with planetary scientist Toby Owen. Emily Lakdawalla sheds new light on the strange moon in this... more »
GETTING READY FOR TITAN WITH CHRIS MCKAY
October 25, 2004 Guests: Chris McKay Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Famed planetary scientist Chris McKay returns to Planetary Radio, this time to talk about both a close encounter between Cassini and Saturn's moon Titan, and the January descent of the Huygens probe... more »
A CONVERSATION WITH JET PROPULSION LAB DIRECTOR CHARLES ELACHI
October 18, 2004 Guests: Charles Elachi Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Charles Elachi has been part of many missions in his thirty years at JPL, but his greatest mission may have began three years ago when he became director. Hear him talk about the famous lab, the... more »
A SPECIAL PLANETARY RADIO: SPACESHIPONE WINS THE X PRIZE!
October 11, 2004 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Join host Mat Kaplan in California's Mojave desert for a special documentary about the October 4th return of Burt Rutan's rocket plane to the edge of space. You'll hear exclusive material not... more »
FORMER SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM DIRECTOR ROALD SAGDEEV ON THE SPUTNIK 1 ANNIVERSARY
October 4, 2004 Guests: Roald Sagdeev Select Format: MP3 Windows Media It was the mission that began the Space Age. Sputnik 1 shocked the world when it went into orbit on October 4, 1957. We talk with Dr. Roald Sagdeev, former Director of the Soviet Space Research... more »
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS WORK TO SAVE THE PLANET
September 27, 2004 Guests: Roy Tucker, Matt Dawson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grants have been helping amateur astronomers and professionals at smaller observatories since 1997. We talk to two of the recipients about their efforts to find and... more »
SETI@HOME CHIEF SCIENTIST DAN WERTHIMER SAYS SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
September 20, 2004 Guests: Dan Wertheimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The rumors of a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated, according to Dan Werthimer. He updates us on this and lots of other recent developments, including a... more »
GENESIS RISES FROM THE ASHES/PLANETARY PROTECTION
September 13, 2004 Guests: Roger Wiens, Margaret Race Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Incredibly, after a terrible impact, scientists believe some of the solar wind samples from the Genesis spacecraft can be saved. Genesis team member Roger Wiens updates us from the Dugway Proving... more »
BILLIONS OF EARTHS?
September 6, 2004 Guests: Geoff Marcy Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Professional planet hunter Geoff Marcy of UC Berkeley returns to share astounding news of newly-discovered Extrasolar Planets that are much closer in size to our Earth. Meteors, meteoroids and... more » |
|||