Dreaming up the technologies of the future. This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Alahman of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. Join me on a trip to the 2023 NASA Innovative Advanced Concept

Symposium or NIAC. This year it was hosted in Houston, Texas. Over the next two episodes

you'll hear my interviews with the fantastic and inspiring NIAC fellows who are thinking

up the technologies that could change the future of space exploration. Then we'll check

in with Bruce Betts, our chief scientist for WhatsApp, and a discussion about the advances

in space exploration during our lifetimes.

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Before jumping into NIAC, I have to send a massive congratulations to the NASA OSIRIS

REX mission team. It's been a long three years waiting for the spacecraft's collected

samples from the potentially hazardous asteroid called Bennu to reach Earth, but the team

did it. OSIRIS REX's samples touched down on Earth on Sunday, September 24, 2023. We'll

explore the mission and the fate of these samples in an upcoming episode of Planetary Radio.

I know you'll all enjoy it. But as OSIRIS REX's samples were making their way back to Earth,

I was off on my first adventure to the annual NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Symposium.

This year, it was held from September 19th through the 21st in the Hilton, Houston, NASA

Clear Lake Hotel. That's in Houston, Texas, right on the water by Johnson Space Center.

I got to host the webcast for the event, speaking with all of the amazing NIAC fellows as they

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