Space Policy Edition: What We're Watching in 2022
New rockets, new legislation, and a new direction for planetary exploration are just some of the major events happening in space in the coming year. D.C. Operations Chief Brendan Curry returns to the ...
7 Jan 20221h 3min
Return to the Moon: Spacesuits and preparing for splashdown in the Pacific
NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972. We visit Naval Base San Diego to board the USS John P. Murtha, the ship that may recover the uncrewed Artemis 1 ...
5 Jan 20221h 5min
A good year for space: Planetary Society all-stars review 2021
Mat Kaplan and six Planetary Society colleagues review a year full of accomplishments, firsts and exciting discoveries. Society CEO Bill Nye opens the show with a celebration of the James Webb Space T...
29 Dec 20211h 11min
Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan
Space historian William Sheehan and planetary scientist Jim Bell have written a fascinating history of humankind’s at least 5,000-year relationship with the Red Planet. “Discovering Mars” is filled wi...
22 Dec 202155min
JWST is ready for launch and amazing science
The James Webb Space Telescope will begin its mission of discovery as soon as Dec. 24. René Doyon, Heidi Hammel and Mike McElwain join us for a conversation about what it may reveal from our solar sys...
15 Dec 20211h 2min
A conversation with the director of “Don’t Look Up”
The plot of the great new movie “Don’t Look Up” is driven by a giant comet speeding toward Earth and the scientists who want to divert it. Adam McKay directed this dark comedy. He and real-life planet...
8 Dec 202152min
Space Policy Edition: Astronomy Goes Big, with Heidi Hammel
The search for biosignatures on hundreds of exoplanets is the top goal for U.S. astronomers. That's the conclusion from the new, once-per-decade report from the National Academy of Sciences: Pathways ...
3 Dec 20211h 17min
Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?
Is it life? NASA chief scientist Jim Green and Mary Voytek, leader of the agency’s astrobiology program, are two authors of a paper that calls for a system or scale that will allow scientists and othe...
1 Dec 20211h 10min
