Checking up on Saturn with Linda Spilker this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final

Frontier.

I'm Mad Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It has been about six months since

we went beyond the headlines coming from the Saturnian system. It must be time for another

visit with Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker.

Bill Nye has been listening to the rising tide of concern over the planned retirement of

the space shuttle.

It's a concern he doesn't share, as you'll hear in a few seconds.

We'll walk the riverbeds of Mars with Emily Lachdawala in a Q&A classic edition and later

we'll busy ourselves in the night sky as Bruce Betts takes us on a what's up tour.

You'll also have yet another chance to win a planetary radio t-shirt.

Emily is still tracking evidence of a Martian dust storm in her blog and Planetary Society Executive

Director Lou Friedman muses about the politics and science of climate change. You'll find these and much more at planetary.org.

Here's Bill.

Hey, Bill Nye, the Planetary Guy here, Vice President of Planetary Society, and this week there are bills being brought forward

by Congressman in Florida, bills being brought forward by Congressman in Alabama, concerned

about the retirement of the United States of NASA's space

shuttle in 2010. I think what's happened everybody's noticed that 2010 is

coming right up.

And so can we really retire to the space shuttle?

Oh my goodness, we wouldn't have access

to the International Space Station.

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