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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Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?
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Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw
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The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot
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Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes
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Space Policy Edition: We're entering a new era of planetary defense (with Lindle...
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Sarah Al Amiri and the new UAE mission to the asteroid belt
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Sally Ride: Revisiting our 2005 conversation
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Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium
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Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
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Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?
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Space Policy Edition: NASA's Congressional Logjam
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Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit
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The Wonderful: a new documentary about the International Space Station
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The Case for a Return to Enceladus
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An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
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Space Policy Edition: The cultural rituals of space advocacy, with Linda Billing...
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Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
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Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch
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Cassini, Voyager and beyond with Linda Spilker
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How Perseverance drives itself around Mars
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Space Policy Edition: Mars via the Nuclear Option
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Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science
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Andy Chaikin on Apollo 15 and the lessons of Apollo
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Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
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We’re Going Back to Venus
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Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope
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Space Policy Edition: The Pentagon's UFO Report, Featuring Sarah Scoles
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Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
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The Pearly Clouds of Mars
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Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
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Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
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Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2022 Budget Request Says "Yes"
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Mighty Jupiter Revealed
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The New Great Space Observatories
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung
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Defenders of Earth on Planetary Radio
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Space Policy Edition: How Starship at the Moon Brings NASA Closer to Mars
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Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary
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A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn
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Is ‘Oumuamua a Piece of a Pluto-Like Planet? And Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mar...
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The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill
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The First Space Shuttle Pilot: Bob Crippen on the 40th Anniversary of STS-1
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Space Policy Edition: Biden Names His NASA Administrator
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NASA’s TESS Exoplanet Mission Finds Over 2,000 Possible New Worlds
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The Perseverance Rover and a Great First Month on Mars
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Return From Ryugu: The Hayabusa2 Leader on His Mission’s Success
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InSight’s Mole: A Martian Science Odyssey
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Space Policy Edition: SpaceX's Early, Desperate Days (with Eric Berger)
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Spinoffs: How NASA Technologies Benefit Life on Earth
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Touchdown! The Sights and Sounds of Perseverance on Mars
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