Program Archives

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
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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
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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 »

THE PIONEER ANOMALY: CHANGING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
September 10, 2007
Guests: Slava Turyshev
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JPL research scientist Slava Turyshev returns to provide an update on the Pioneer Anomaly project. With just a couple of obstacles left to overcome, almost thirty years of mission data are almost...  more »

A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE
September 3, 2007
Guests: Lawrence Rudnick
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Lawrence Rudnick and two colleagues, all at the University of Minnesota, are publishing a paper about their discovery of a tremendous void in the cosmos, a billion light year-wide expanse that...  more »

AT THE EUROPLANET CONFERENCE WITH DOUG ELLISON
August 28, 2007
Guests: Doug Ellison
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Space enthusiast and blogger Doug Ellison reports on the exciting news from the just-completed European Planetary Science Conference in Potsdam, Germany. Emily Lakdawalla tells about the Messenger...  more »

BILL MCKINNON AND ICES AND SEAS IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
August 20, 2007
Guests: Bill McKinnon
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Fresh from a conference on satellites of the outer solar system, planetary scientist Bill McKinnon shares his love and fascination for the icy moons at Jupiter, Saturn, and elsewhere, with special...  more »

TALKING WITH THE NEEMO AQUANAUTS
August 13, 2007
Guests: Nicholas Patrick, Richard Arnold, Satoshi Furukawa
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NEEMO stands for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, and the Aquarius undersea station stands sixty feet under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. That's where we talk with the...  more »

PHOENIX IS ON ITS WAY TO MARS
August 6, 2007
Guests: Amir Alexander, Jon Lomberg
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The Phoenix lander is off for the north polar region of the Red Planet. The Planetary Society's Amir Alexander was at the Kennedy Space Center. We'll talk with him about the exciting pre-launch...  more »

PHOENIX MARS LANDER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PETER SMITH
July 30, 2007
Guests: Peter Smith
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Phoenix will soon be on its way to the Red Planet. Principal Investigator Peter Smith tells us about his aptly-named bird that will set down much farther north on Mars than any previous lander. ...  more »

HONORING RAY BRADBURY, MARS PHOTOGRAPHER
July 23, 2007
Guests: Ray Bradbury, Phil Christensen, Louis Friedman
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The Planetary Society recently sponsored a special benefit performance of Ray Bradbury's hit play, Green Town. Ray was presented with a beautiful image of a spot on Mars he had selected for imaging....  more »