Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye at Science Museum Oklahoma
Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding public science museum. You’ll meet University of Oklahoma researchers who are exploring Mars and lear...
7 Aug 20191h 14min
Planetary Radio Live at Science Museum Oklahoma
Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding public science museum. You’ll meet University of Oklahoma researchers who are exploring Mars and learn...
7 Aug 20191h 14min
Space Policy Edition: The Home Front During Apollo (with Emily Margolis)
Did the public support Project Apollo? Dr. Emily Margolis joins the show to explore the domestic politics and cultural impact of the space age throughout the 1960s. Despite the success of the lunar la...
2 Aug 20191h 23min
A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement
It will be the first flying machine on another world. Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung shares her plans. There’s big news about The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2! You’ll hear it from embedd...
31 Juli 201937min
Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings
Join us as the little cubesat successfully unfurls its solar sail. You’ll hear from members of the LightSail 2 mission team on the morning of July 23, 2019, when the critical command was sent to the s...
24 Juli 201939min
Apollo 11 and the Woman Who Helped Get It Home
Poppy Northcutt was a pioneer—the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control. The program she helped to create got the astronauts back to Earth. Fifty years later, she sits down wit...
17 Juli 201955min
We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan
NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan. Mission Principal Investigator Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle helps us celebrate. Troy Hudson ...
10 Juli 201956min
Space Policy Edition: Why Apollo Happened (with Roger Launius)
Half a century has passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin imprinted humanity's first footsteps upon another world. Apollo 11 was the culmination of a decade's worth of fervent activity in which t...
5 Juli 20191h 45min
