2015: A Great Year for Space Exploration

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 29 December 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our year-end review features the “best of 2015” lists from Jason Davis, Casey Dreier, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science Guy. What’s Up offers planets, a comet, and a nice prize package for the space trivia contest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Looking back at the Year in Space, this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm
0:14.8	Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It's our annual Year and Review Show
0:19.6	this time featuring all our regulars along with special appearances by human spaceflight
0:25.1	and light sale editor Jason Davis and director of advocacy Casey dryer.
0:30.0	We'll save Emily Lockwala's greatest hits for the second half of the show just
0:34.8	before we enjoy our weekly What's Up visit with Bruce Vets. And we'll begin
0:39.6	with New Year's Greetings from the CEO of the Planetary Society,
0:44.2	Bill Nye the Science Guy.
0:45.7	Bill, thank you for joining this 2015 review.
0:48.2	You are the lead-off batter.
0:50.5	It has been a great year, hasn't it?
0:52.4	It has been a great year. It has been a great year.
0:54.0	It's been an amazing year for the planetary site and for space exploration writ large.
0:58.0	Very recently, SpaceX landed its first stage back on a big concrete landing pad, and the idea is to lower the
1:07.9	cost of getting rockets, getting payloads into low-Earth orbit.
1:12.4	That's amazing. More importantly perhaps, the
1:15.2	planetary site he got light sail flying. No, after 39 years we got a solar sail spacecraft
1:22.0	into space.
1:23.0	We brought down that fantastic picture and that's just the start of things.
1:27.0	Next year's going to be higher and cooler.
1:29.0	And then we've got a Mission to Europa.
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