Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium
Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan interviewed NIAC Fellows about their revolutionary projects as part of the 2021 virtual symposium. You’ll hear highlig...
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Share:
Listens: 48
About
Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts, and Emily Lakdawalla as they dive deep into the latest space news. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for the space trivia contest, an episode guide, and much more.
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
A delightful, exclusive conversation with principal investigator Hal Levison, deputy principal investigator Cathy Olkin and deputy project systems eng...
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 abo...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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 dynami...
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 se...
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 adv...
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 wate...