Crew Dragon Triumphant, and a Planetary Society Founder Remembers
Astronaut and former SpaceX director of space operations Garrett Reisman returns to help us celebrate and appreciate the just-completed first crewed mission by a Crew Dragon capsule. Then we settle in...
5 Elo 20201h 18min
Hope Leads the Way to Mars
An exclusive conversation with science lead Sarah Al Amiri and project director Omran Sharaf of the Emirates Mars Mission. Their Hope orbiter is now on its way to the red planet. NASA Associate Admini...
29 Heinä 202058min
A Mars Mission Begins, a Comet Exits, and the Future of Planetary Science
The United Arab Emirates Hope spacecraft has begun its journey to Mars. We’ll join a virtual launch party attended by mission leaders, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, National Air and Space Museum...
22 Heinä 20201h 9min
3 Billion Years Ago: Was Mars Alive?
Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 rover, leaves for the Red Planet in just days. Deputy project scientist Ken Williford tells us how it will look for signs of past life where there was once a Martian lake. He...
15 Heinä 20201h 3min
To Pluto and Beyond with Alan Stern
It has been 5 years since the New Horizons probe revealed beautiful, surprising Pluto, and 18 months since it showed us the odd little body now known as Arrokoth. Principal Investigator Alan Stern sha...
8 Heinä 202052min
Space Policy Edition: A Trillion-Dollar Space Economy?
Dr. Bhavya Lal joins the show to discuss the size of the space economy, where it's going, and how the term itself can mean many different things to many different people. In a world filled with breath...
3 Heinä 20201h 4min
Jim Bell Sends New Eyes to Mars
Mastcam-Z is the main camera system that will soon leave for Mars as part of the Perseverance rover. Mastcam-Z Principal Investigator Jim Bell is back to tell us about what the most powerful set of ey...
1 Heinä 202053min
China on the Final Frontier
Low Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, even Neptune and the edge of the solar system--China’s ambitious plans for space exploration and development are laid out by Planetary Society contributing editor and ...
24 Kesä 202051min
