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!
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Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon
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Space Policy Edition: Mike Gold on Crafting the Artemis Accords
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The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
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Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
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A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves
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Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury
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Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on Bringing Change to NASA
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Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
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New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
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Science from the Moon, and former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back
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The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide
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A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity
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Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program
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Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense
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Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space
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Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-...
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Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit
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Space Policy Edition: Inside the Planetary Science Decadal Survey Process with B...
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Planetary Radio Live in London: The Moons Symphony
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Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise
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Life, the Universe and Britney Schmidt
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Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley
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Space Policy Edition: How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Has Changed Space, with M...
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Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft
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The End of Astronauts?
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Yuri’s Night: Join the party!
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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise
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Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2023 Budget Request
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Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant
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X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf
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Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson
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Planetary Radio Special Edition: The Voyager Golden Record by Twenty Thousand He...
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Meet the first STEP Grant awardees
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Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann
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Space Policy Edition: Why are outer planets missions so expensive?
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5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS
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Astrobiologist David Grinspoon on life, the universe and everything
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Saving the world one telescope at a time: The Shoemaker NEO grant winne
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Space Policy Edition: JWST and the politics of mega-science (with Robert Smith)
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Nobel laureate John Mather: The promise of the James Webb Space Telescope
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Worlds of snow and ice
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Curiosity rolls on: Mars Science Laboratory project scientist Ashwin Vasavada
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We have touched the Sun: The Parker Solar Probe’s triumph
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Space Policy Edition: What We're Watching in 2022
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Return to the Moon: Spacesuits and preparing for splashdown in the Pacific
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A good year for space: Planetary Society all-stars review 2021
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Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan
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JWST is ready for launch and amazing science
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A conversation with the director of “Don’t Look Up”
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Space Policy Edition: Astronomy Goes Big, with Heidi Hammel
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