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Since 2002, Planetary Radio has visited with a scientist, engineer, project manager, advocate, or writer who provides a unique perspective on the quest for knowledge about our Solar System and beyond. The full show archive is available for free.
Opportunity reaches Endeavour Crater, Emily Lakdawalla visits a New Horizons science meeting about Pluto, Bill Nye discusses a planet made of diamond, and Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan celebrate the award of a Parsec award to Planetary Radio.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
LIFE Heads for Space Aboard Shuttle Endeavour
Microrovers Exploring With Bruce Betts
New Beginnings With Lou Friedman
Ray Bradbury Turns 90 and The Best Mars Map Ever
Going Behind the Scenes With LightSail 1
Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients Protecting Our Planet
Falcon 9 Launch, Another Jupiter Smackdown, IKAROS...and a Surprise
Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman on solar sails IKAROS and LightSail-1
Bill Nye the Science Guy reports on last week's conference about the future of the US space program.
JPL engineer Daniel Gaines helped develop new software for Opportunity to autonomously select objects for close-up imaging as she races across Mars. Emily Lakdawalla is thrilled by evidence of recently active volcanos on Venus. Bill Nye salutes three decades of service by retiring Planetary Society founder Lou Friedman.
Stephen Hawking Accepts the Cosmos Award
John Callas tells us why an end to Spirit's roving does not mean the end of her work on the red planet. Emily Lakdawalla looks to the other side of Mars where Opportunity is rolling up to a baby crater, and Bill Nye is head over heels for the highest ever skydive.
Lightsail Update and Haute Cuisine in Space
Planetary Radio is seven years old. We'll celebrate by looking back to our beginnings, with science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke
We're Back! Bill Nye Describes the LightSail Project
Solar sailing returns with LightSail, announced on the 75th anniversary of Carl Sagan's birth.
The Meaning of LIFE
John Callas reports on Spirit and Opportunity, Bill Nye debates the future of humans on the Moon, and Bruce Betts looks to the Perseid meteor shower in his What's Up review of the night sky.