Space Policy Edition: T-minus Five Years and Counting

Space Policy Edition: T-minus Five Years and Counting

Can NASA return astronauts to the Moon by 2024? Vice President Mike Pence shocked the space community by announcing this ambitious new goal just weeks after the Trump Administration proposed a half-billion dollar cut to the space agency. Is the Administration fed up with the mounting delays to the Space Launch System rocket? How seriously should we take this declaration? Is it even possible given budget cuts and political dysfunction? Brendan Curry, Chief of Washington Operations for The Planetary Society, joins the show to explore these questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Looking back on 2023

Looking back on 2023

Members of The Planetary Society staff revisit some of 2023's most exhilarating moments and groundbreaking discoveries in space this week on Planetary Radio. Kate Howells, Public Education Specialist,...

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Dragonfly soars to final design phase

Dragonfly soars to final design phase

NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan has been authorized to proceed with work on final mission design and fabrication, known as Phase C. This week on Planetary Radio, we get an update on th...

20 Joulu 20231h 13min

An astrogeologic experience with Kirby Runyon

An astrogeologic experience with Kirby Runyon

Sometimes, when you want to learn more about other worlds, all you have to do is step out your door. Mat Kaplan, Planetary Radio's creator and former host, takes us on an adventure with planetary geol...

13 Joulu 20231h

The mystery of the largest marsquake ever recorded

The mystery of the largest marsquake ever recorded

What caused the largest marsquake ever recorded? Benjamin Fernando, a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Oxford, joins Planetary Radio this week to talk about the 4.7-magnitude marsquake reco...

6 Joulu 202349min

Space Policy Edition: Was the Space Shuttle a policy failure?

Space Policy Edition: Was the Space Shuttle a policy failure?

Was the Space Shuttle a successful program? In many ways, yes: it endured for 30 years, launched hundreds of astronauts into space, and built the International Space Station. But, according to the goa...

1 Joulu 202359min

Lucy's first asteroid flyby reveals a surprise moon

Lucy's first asteroid flyby reveals a surprise moon

On Nov. 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is on a mission to investigate Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, made its first flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh. Hal Levison and Simone Marchi, the mission's princ...

29 Marras 202353min

Deep Sky: A JWST IMAX experience

Deep Sky: A JWST IMAX experience

Deep Sky, a newly released IMAX documentary, tells the emotional and hopeful story of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Nathaniel Kahn, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and the director of Deep Sky, ...

22 Marras 202355min

NASA’s STEM program looks to the Moon

NASA’s STEM program looks to the Moon

Steven Smith, an Education Specialist from NASA's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (or STEM) Program, joins Planetary Radio to share some of the unique opportunities available for stu...

15 Marras 202359min

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