Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2022 Budget Request Says "Yes"
President Joe Biden's new budget proposal for NASA is very good, supporting nearly every major Planetary Society priority. It would fund science at record levels, maintain Artemis' 2024 lunar landing ...
4 Juni 202150min
Mighty Jupiter Revealed
Scott Bolton leads the Juno mission that has been orbiting and revealing Jupiter for five years. NASA has granted an extension that will keep the spacecraft exploring till 2025. Scott shares some of ...
2 Juni 20211h 1min
The New Great Space Observatories
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will soon issue the Astro2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. It will rank four major proposals for exciting, expensive new spac...
26 Maj 202154min
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung
The tiny Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has flown into our hearts. Project manager MiMi Aung and her team may have made it look easy, but Aung explains why it was anything but. Bruce Betts has tips for vie...
19 Maj 202154min
Defenders of Earth on Planetary Radio
The 2021 Planetary Defense Conference brought together the leading scientists, policymakers and other experts who are working to protect our planet from near-Earth objects (NEOs). The Planetary Societ...
12 Maj 20211h 13min
Space Policy Edition: How Starship at the Moon Brings NASA Closer to Mars
In a surprise move, NASA chose SpaceX's Starship as the sole winner of its 3 billion-dollar human lunar lander development contract. Within days, Blue Origin and Dynetics filed official protests, forc...
7 Maj 202153min
Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary
It is always such fun to welcome back Andy Weir. The author of The Martian and Artemis has just published his most entertaining and inventive novel yet. Project Hail Mary gives an unlikely protagonist...
5 Maj 202150min
A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn
There is no Nobel prize for astronomy, so the Kyoto Prize for Astronomy and Astrophysics may be the highest international recognition an astronomer can receive. Princeton University professor of astro...
28 Apr 20211h 19min
