Planetary Radio Live! – Celebrating Curiosity on Mars
Join us for an utterly fascinating live conversation with Emily Lakdawalla about her brand new book, The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job. Also joining us at Ca...
25 Huhti 20181h 35min
Yuri’s Night 2018!
Host Mat Kaplan once again attends the worldwide party for space. Join him at the Los Angeles celebration under Space Shuttle Endeavour. You’ll hear conversations with astronauts Nicole Stott and An...
18 Huhti 201854min
Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1
We have begun to understand the composition of worlds that are hundreds of trillions of kilometers from Earth. Astronomer Nikole Lewis is co-leader of a team that has used the Hubble Space Telescope t...
11 Huhti 201831min
Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on what a NASA Administrator (and Deputy) actually does
Lori Garver, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, talks with Casey about what the Deputy and Administrator jobs are like day-to-day, how decisions actually get made at the top, and why the current lac...
6 Huhti 20181h 17min
AI, Space, and Humanity’s Future—A Conversation with David Brin
The multi-award winning science fiction author, futurist and speaker returns to Planetary Radio for a wide-ranging conversation about robots and humans in space, empathetic artificial intelligences, h...
4 Huhti 20181h 8min
A Space Station Crashes to Earth
By the time you hear this week’s episode, China’s Tiangong-1 may have spectacularly re-entered our planet’s atmosphere, raining metal on an unpredictable location. The Aerospace Corporation’s Bill Ai...
28 Maalis 201850min
Stephen Hawking: Spaceflight Pioneer!
He is known for his breakthrough physics and popularizing of science, but Dr. Hawking also wanted to fly in space. Erik Viirre led the medical team that helped Stephen experience weightlessness. He s...
21 Maalis 201839min
Amateur Astronomers Work To Save Earth From Asteroids!
Seven astronomers have been selected to receive Shoemaker NEO (Near Earth Object) grants from the Planetary Society. They and their observatories span the planet. We’ll meet an American and an Austr...
14 Maalis 201836min
