Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts, and Emily Lakdawalla as they dive deep into the latest space news. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for the space trivia contest, an episode guide, and much more.
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Space Policy Edition: A Mob at the U.S. Capitol
Casey Drier and our special guest, former National Space Council chief of staff Jared Zambrano-Stout, consider the troubling events at the U.S. Capitol in this special episode.
A Symphony for 7 Moons
Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg is joined by Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker and retired astronaut Nicole Stott as she shares excerpts from The Moons Symphony.
Solar Cruiser: A Giant Sail Prepares for Space
NASA has given the green light to Principal Investigator Les Johnson and his team for construction of a solar sail that dwarfs all that have come before.
Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones
In spite of everything, 2020 was a good year for space exploration according to five of The Planetary Society’s experts.
Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Might Walk on the Moon
18 astronauts on the Artemis Team have a shot at walking on the Moon, and Stephanie Wilson is one of them.
What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!
Making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere will be essential if humans are ever to visit and work on the Red Planet, and the MOXIE experiment will soon show us how.
Welcoming a New Leader, and China on the Final Frontier
Bill Nye helps us welcome the Planetary Society’s new president who also leads a new Moon mission, while China’s lunar sample return spacecraft is headed home.
Space Policy Edition: Operation Moonglow and the Global Impact of Apollo
Space historian Teasel Muir-Harmony argues in her fascinating new book that the Apollo lunar program was promoted as a triumph of, not for, all mankind.
Observatory Director Francisco Córdova on the Devastating Loss of Arecibo
Host Mat Kaplan talked with the Arecibo Observatory director just hours before the giant radio telescope came crashing down.
More Moon Water and an Update from Venus on Our 18th Anniversary!
Astronomer Jane Greaves returns with an update on the phosphine gas floating above Venus, before Casey Honnibal takes us through her team’s discovery of water right out under the Sun on Earth’s Moon.