A astronomy cast, episode 477, the state of exploration, the return to the moon.

Welcome to astronomy cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we

help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University Day with me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay,

the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society of Pacific

and the director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey, Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well.

How are you doing, Fraser?

Great.

This is the last episode before I head off to Iceland with my good buddy, Dr. Paul Sutter.

So now we're going to record another episode, I think tomorrow to try and get another one

in the bank, but I think at the time you listen to this, I will be in the air and on my way

to go see Aurora's from Iceland, which is like full on bucket list, so I cannot wait.

So this is super cool.

So what date do you finally return so that we can start hearing your tales?

12.

You will be back on the 12th.

Okay.

So you're only gone one Friday and we'll have a store and everything sounds excellent.

And the day after our next recording that we're together, when you get back, that's February

16th. And on the 17th, I leave to go to the European testing conference in Amsterdam.

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