Space Policy Edition: What’s Going on with: Congress, MSR, and ?
We check in on the congressional budget process for NASA, Mars Sample Return’s spiraling cost growth, and the impending end of the regulatory holiday for human commercial space launch companies. Jack ...
7 Juli 202356min
Humans to Mars by the 2030s? NASA Associate Administrators weigh in
It's going to take a lot of collaboration to get humans to Mars, but we're up for the challenge. This week on Planetary Radio, Mat Kaplan, senior communications adviser at The Planetary Society, takes...
5 Juli 20231h
2Fast 2Curious: Finding the source of the fast solar wind
Some solar mysteries, like the origin of the fast solar wind, can only be solved by getting up close and personal with the Sun. James Drake from the University of Maryland joins Planetary Radio this w...
28 Juni 202354min
The disappearing act of Saturn's young rings
Saturn's rings are so young that they may have formed when dinosaurs walked the Earth. Richard Durisen, a Professor Emeritus of Astronomy from Indiana University Bloomington, and Paul Estrada, a Resea...
21 Juni 20231h 5min
The oldest organic molecules in the known Universe
Justin Spilker and his colleagues at Texas A&M University have detected the oldest and most distant organic molecules in the known Universe using the James Webb Space Telescope. Justin joins Planetary...
14 Juni 202351min
Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Sarafina El-Badry Nance joins Planetary Radio to discuss her new book, Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark. We share a beautiful poem about exploration that will soon be...
7 Juni 202354min
Space Policy Edition: The policy implications of active SETI
Would meeting an extraterrestrial civilization be good or bad for humanity? Astronomer Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra argues that knowing the outcome in advance is fundamentally impossible, which results in a r...
2 Juni 20231h 17min
The Science You’ve Enabled
The Planetary Society has just announced the latest awards in its Science and Technology Enabled by the Public (STEP) Grant program. With regular host Sarah Al-Ahmed on vacation, Mat Kaplan returns to...
31 Maj 202350min
