Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources: Mining Asteroids For Fun and Profit
Chris Lewicki is the passionate President of Planetary Resources. He leads the company's mission to find, capture and deliver asteroids to its space-resource hungry clients.Learn more about your ad ch...
18 Feb 201331min
2012 DA14--Coming Soon to a Planet Near You!
The 45-meter Near Earth Asteroid flies by on February 15. NASA brought together asteroid experts to discuss it and others of its threatening kind.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
11 Feb 201328min
An Imminent Asteroid Encounter
Spain’s La Sagra Observatory discovered Asteroid 2012 DA14 just a year ago. Now it’s nearing Earth once again. Jaime Nomen of La Sagra is back to prepare us for this very close flyby. Learn more about...
4 Feb 201328min
Debra Fischer Hunts for a Second Earth at Alpha Centauri
Yale Professor of Astronomy Debra Fischer is one of our planet’s most successful discoverers of exoplanets. She has set her sights on Alpha Centauri, where she hopes to find a Earth-sized world in the...
28 Jan 201328min
The Gigantic ALMA Radio Telescope in Chile
ALMA will make sharper images than the Hubble Space Telescope, yet it’s a radio telescope! ALMA scientists Alison Peck and Al Wooten tell us about this array of 66 huge dishes in Chile’s Atacama deser...
21 Jan 201328min
Visiting the AAS Meeting for a JWST Update and More
The 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society was a great place to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope from Jason Kalirai and Dean C. Hines.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
14 Jan 201352min
Listening Once Again to Amateur Astronomy Pioneer John Dobson
A reprise of our very popular conversation with the delightful 97-year old John Dobson, inventor of the Dobsonian telescope that brings the universe within everyone’s reach.Learn more about your ad ch...
7 Jan 201328min
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Beginning a New Year In Space
Planetary Society experts review the challenges and triumphs of 2012 and look forward to a new and exciting year. You’ll hear Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily Lakdawalla on new missions, Casey Dreier o...
31 Des 201228min
