Space Policy Edition: Mars via the Nuclear Option

Space Policy Edition: Mars via the Nuclear Option

Can nuclear propulsion fundamentally transform our ability to send humans to Mars? Bhavya Lal, a policy and nuclear engineering expert now working at NASA, helped write a new report on the topic for the National Academies of Sciences. She joins the show to talk about the advantages of various types of nuclear propulsion, the engineering and policy challenges that face them, and the role of government versus the private sector in developing and deploying transformational technologies. Discover more here: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0804-2021-spe-bhavya-lal-nuclear-propulsion

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A Planetary System That Looks Like Home

A Planetary System That Looks Like Home

A Planetary System That Looks Like HomeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

19 Kesä 200628min

Solving Cosmic Mysteries Deep Under the Earth

Solving Cosmic Mysteries Deep Under the Earth

Art McDonald is Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, two kilometers deep in a nickel mine in northern Canada.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/l...

12 Kesä 200628min

Sending an SOS to Congress: Save Our Science!

Sending an SOS to Congress: Save Our Science!

Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman talks about the Save Our Science campaign's recent trip to Washington.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com...

5 Kesä 200628min

Big Eye in the Martian Sky:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Zurek

Big Eye in the Martian Sky: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Zurek

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Zurek returns with an update on the craft now orbiting Mars.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener...

29 Touko 200615min

The Many Missions of JPL's Kevin Baines

The Many Missions of JPL's Kevin Baines

The Many Missions of JPL's Kevin BainesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

22 Touko 200628min

Rusty Schweickart and More from the International Space Development Conference

Rusty Schweickart and More from the International Space Development Conference

More from ISDC, including Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart on asteroid deflection, Elon Musk of SpaceX, and X Prize Foundation's Peter Diamandis.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

15 Touko 200628min

Join Us at the International Space Development Conference

Join Us at the International Space Development Conference

Special coverage from the 25th annual ISDC in Los Angeles, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Burt Rutan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omn...

8 Touko 200628min

Help Us Find Star Dust at Home!

Help Us Find Star Dust at Home!

Stardust mission researcher Andrew Westphal returns with news about what the spacecraft brought back to Earth, and how the public will help find more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

1 Touko 200628min

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