Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?
It started with a question from a listener. The answer comes from Dawn mission chief engineer and mission director Marc Rayman. Marc also tells us about his new job as chief engineer for mission opera...
6 Okt 202138min
Space Policy Edition: NASA's Congressional Logjam
A polarized U.S. Congress is juggling nearly half a dozen pieces of major legislation, several of which face time-sensitive deadlines that, if missed, could create significant disruption for major NAS...
1 Okt 202157min
Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit
Mars all-stars gathered online for September’s annual Humans to Mars summit produced by Explore Mars. Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan moderated three intriguing panels with participants including lead...
29 Sep 20211h 7min
The Wonderful: a new documentary about the International Space Station
Clare Lewins has created a film that takes us inside the lives of people who have lived and worked on the International Space Station. Cady Coleman is one of the featured astronauts in this beautiful,...
22 Sep 202158min
The Case for a Return to Enceladus
Morgan Cable of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is lead author of a paper that makes a compelling argument for a mission to Saturn’s small but dynamic moon Enceladus. She and her stellar co-authors b...
15 Sep 20211h
An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
NASA hopes to radically reduce the price tag for exploring Mars with a mission called ESCAPADE. Principal investigator Rob Lillis and his team will send two small probes to the Red Planet in 2024 for ...
8 Sep 20211h 4min
Space Policy Edition: The cultural rituals of space advocacy, with Linda Billings
Communication is culture, says Dr. Linda Billings, an expert in social science and space outreach. So what culture is summed by the types of space advocacy that call for pioneering, colonization and c...
3 Sep 20211h 26min
Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
It was one of the most exciting planetary science announcements in 2018: Radar from an orbiting spacecraft might have found large pools of liquid water under the Martian south pole. But good science d...
1 Sep 202142min
