2014, the year we landed on a comet, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society where today will take you to the landing of

Filae on Comet 67P as we talk with the European Space Agency's Mark

McCorkran. Bruce Betts will help me give away time on a telescope somewhere on our planet

and we'll hear from Casey Dreyer about a couple of upcoming space events in

Washington DC. Another terrific ESA mission is about to end.

For that story, we'll go to a nearly airborne senior editor, Emily Lockdawala.

Emily, I've talked to you in a lot of interesting places,

but I don't think we've ever spoken to you as you were on a plane before at least you haven't

taken off yet where are you coming from where are you going?

I'm coming back from off-slo Norway where I was giving a couple of talks at the

Museum of Science and Technology and also there.

And so you're almost home and I'd like to talk about this recent piece you did on the 24th,

the day that we're speaking, about Venus Express.

It was just last August 5th that we talked to Hokan's Feedhem, the Project

Scientists for Venus Express, who told us we could run out of gas any time.

Looks like that empty tank is maybe just days or hours away.

It could be just days or hours away, but more likely the spacecraft is good for another few months,

every four months or so it has to perform these periapses raise maneuvers to keep its orbit from

from dipping too low into the an atmosphere.

It's in the middle of one of those maneuvers right now.

They should have enough fuel to last through this one if so the next one in February

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