Program Archives

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 »

NASA ADMINISTRATOR MICHAEL GRIFFIN, AND YOUR TICKET TO SPACE
December 12, 2005
Guests: Michael Griffin, Peter Diamandis, Alex Tai, John Spencer, Jeff Greason, Stacy Tearne
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We feature remarks by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and excerpts from a panel discussion on the status of space tourism, both recorded at the Transforming Space conference in California. Emily...  more »

OFF TO PLUTO AND ITS THREE MOONS WITH ALAN STERN
November 21, 2005
Guests: Alan Stern
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New Horizons PI Alan Stern on the mission to Pluto, and discovery of 2 new moons. Q&A: movies from rocket launches. New trivia contest.  more »

MIKE BROWN, DISCOVERER OF 2003 UB313...PLANET 10?
August 15, 2005
Guests: Mike Brown
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CalTech Planetary Astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues have outdone themselves with discovery of what may be the solar system's tenth planet, far beyond Pluto. He talks with us about the recent...  more »

PLUTO'S DIAMOND JUBILEE
February 14, 2005
Guests: Reta Beebe, Clyde Tombaugh, Alan Stern
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We talk with astronomer Reta Beebe. She was a colleague and friend of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. Principal investigator Alan Stern provides a status report on the New Horizons mission to...  more »

FAR OUT SEDNA
March 22, 2004
Guests: Mike Brown
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It's big, and it orbits farther from the sun than any solar system object yet discovered. CalTech's Mike Brown and his co-discoverers want to name it Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the cold deeps....  more »

PLUTO WILL FINALLY GET A VISITOR
July 14, 2003
Guests: S. Alan Stern
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Dr. S. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute is Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He talks with us about that probe to be launched in 2006,...  more »