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THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM FOR DAN MCCLEESE AND THE MARS CLIMATE SOUNDER
February 27, 2006
Guests: Dan McClese
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Mars Climate Sounder Principal Investigator Dan McCleese on instrument's third chance to reach the red planet, on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.  more »

ON THE WAY TO PLUTO WITH NEW HORIZONS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ALAN STERN
February 20, 2006
Guests: Alan Stern
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Principal Investigator Alan Stern returns for the first time since launch of New Horizons toward Jupiter, Pluto and beyond.  more »

HAS NASA'S VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION BECOME NEARSIGHTED?
February 13, 2006
Guests: Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman
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NASA announced its budget plans last week. We take a look at those plans, and get commentary from Planetary Society Executive Director Lou...  more »

CLOSING IN ON AN INTERPLANETARY MYSTERY: THE PIONEER ANOMALY
February 6, 2006
Guests: John Anderson
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JPL Senior Research Scientist John Anderson updates the Pioneer Anomaly casebook, and reports that there may be one more attempt to...  more »

THE ORION NEBULA AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT
January 30, 2006
Guests: Massimo Robberto
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It has been called a stellar nursery, and it has never been so spectacular. Astronomer Massimo Robberto is our guide to a new, billion-pixel image of the Orion Nebula that you can more »

A GREAT WEEK FOR SPACE EXPLORATION
January 23, 2006
Guests: John Spencer, Andrew Westphal
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Andrew Westphal on what's been found in the Stardust Sample Return Capsule and John Spencer on the New Horizons launch and the upcoming Jupiter flyby.  more »

STARDUST SAMPLES STREAK SAFELY HOME
January 16, 2006
Guests: Andrew Westphal, Don Brownlee
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Special coverage of the return of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule, featuring Andrew Westphal of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab, and...  more »

A SPECIAL REPRISE: THE PLANETARY SOCIETY'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
January 9, 2006
Guests: Buzz Aldrin, Ray Bradbury, Ann Druyan, Louis Friedman, Dan Goldin, Bruce Murray, Nichelle Nichols, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson
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This week we bring back one of our most exciting programs from the past year, a sampling of the Planetary Society's more »

COUNTDOWN TO SAMPLE RETURN: A STARDUST SPECIAL
January 2, 2006
Guests: Don Brownlee
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With just days to go till the Stardust spacecraft returns comet and interstellar dust to Earth, we present excerpts from a NASA media briefing. ...  more »

STILL MAKING A DEEP IMPACT, WITH JESSICA SUNSHINE
December 26, 2005
Guests: Jessica Sunshine
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Spectroscopist and Deep Impact co-investigator Jessica Sunshine reviews the wonders revealed by Deep Impact's smack down with more »