Planetary Radio
Planetary Radio is the weekly adventure on the final frontier produced by the Planetary Society and it's CEO, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Listen to host Mat Kaplan's conversations with the scientists, engineers, dreamers and leaders at the forefront of space exploration. You'll also hear our regular segments with Bill, "Planetary Evangelist" Emily Lakdawalla, and Director of Science and Technology Bruce Betts. Enter the weekly space trivia contest for your chance to win out-of-this-world prizes!
Notable Guests
Episodes (589)
Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars
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The Launch of LightSail
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Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman
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Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto
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Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
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Countdown to LightSail: An Update
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Saving the Planet at the Planetary Defense Conference
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Rob Manning and Landing on Mars
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Humans Orbiting Mars: Report on the Workshop
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Robert Bigelow and His Expandable Space Habs
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Big News From Little Worlds
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Leaving Behind a Life on Mars—Former Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger
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Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShip...
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Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”
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Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
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Found! Beagle 2 on Mars
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Planetary Radio Extra: A Deep Dive into the New NASA Budget—A New Mission to Eur...
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Year of the Icy Worlds
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Tales From a 4 Billion Year Old Piece of Mars...On Earth
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LightSail Prepares to Take Flight
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A Recipe for a Small Planet
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Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope
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The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier
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2014: The Year in Space
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Where Did The Air Go? Bruce Jakosky on the MAVEN Mars Mission
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Sara Seager and the Search for Earth’s Twin
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Orion Launches Into History
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Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar
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2014: The Year We Landed on a Comet
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Cassini Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker
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Digging Deep With Kris Zacny and the Planetary Deep Drill
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The SpaceShipTwo and Antares Disasters: Special Coverage With John Logsdon
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A MESSENGER From Mercury—Principal Investigator Sean Solomon Returns
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Ancient Water Was Here Before the Sun
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Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
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Planetary Radio Live! We See Thee Rise: The Canadian Space Program
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A Conversation With Congressman Lamar Smith
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Dr. Bell Goes to Washington
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Miguel Alcubierre, Inventor of Warp Drive?
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