2014: The Year in Space
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 30 December 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Year in Space, in Space, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with a special look back this week. |
| 0:24.8 | 2014 is gone, but its milestones in space will not be forgotten. |
| 0:29.9 | It was the year we landed on a comet. A new spaceship rocketed into orbit. Another |
| 0:35.3 | spaceship was lost in a tragic accident. A year of tremendous scientific |
| 0:40.3 | advances and amazing exploration throughout our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:45.8 | It was my great pleasure to once again bring you many of the men and women behind these |
| 0:49.9 | historic events and accomplishments. My colleagues at the Planetary Society were also very busy. |
| 0:56.2 | Several of them will join us for a whirlwind tour of the year that was. And later, just before |
| 1:01.6 | we hear from Bruce Betts, a special treat as we reprise a few moments |
| 1:06.1 | from my May conversation with Neil degrass Tyson. |
| 1:10.0 | To get us started, we've got the CEO of the Planetary Society, the world-changing, Bill 9, the science |
| 1:15.8 | guy. |
| 1:16.8 | Bill, as always, it is a pleasure to talk to you up front in Planetary Radio. |
| 1:21.7 | Our last program of the year year and we're looking back at 2014. |
| 1:26.9 | What comes to mind for you? |
| 1:27.9 | Well, it's been an exciting year for our advocacy, man. |
| 1:30.8 | I mean, we went to Washington, D.C. twice twice and I think we've really got |
| 1:34.9 | congressional support at the world's largest space agency for admission to |
| 1:39.4 | Europa the moon of Jupiter that has twice as much sea water as the Earth, and I'm hoping we can come up with |
| 1:45.3 | craft some remarkable instrument that can look for signs of life traveling at these very high |
| 1:51.4 | interplanetary speeds. I mean it could change the world and then |
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