A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in with Bill Nye and Emily Lakdawalla at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Then we’ll hold our breath as the spacecraft hurtles down through the Martian atmosphere in its seven minutes of terror, climaxing in a glorious touchdown on the Red Planet. This is a very special episode. Learn more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/1128-2018-insight-landing-event.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you ready to land on Mars?
0:05.0	The landing of Insight this week on planetary radio.
0:10.0	Wow. Wow,
0:15.0	wow, wow, Monday, November 26th was a great day for science and space exploration.
0:21.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society this week bringing you
0:24.7	special excerpts of our intimate little landing party in Pasadena, California.
0:29.5	1,000 men, women, and children united by their love of the Final Frontier.
0:34.9	You'll hear from my terrific on-stage panel and from Emily Lachdwala and Bill Nye reporting
0:40.2	from JPL just before and after the landing.
0:44.0	And you'll hear the most exciting portions of NASA TV's live coverage at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
0:50.0	I've compressed some of those segments to save time, but I don't think you'll be disappointed.
0:55.0	We are at Caltech, as if you didn't know in the beautiful Beckman Auditorium, where we are
1:00.0	about to witness the landing of Insight. the first mission to the core of the Red Planet.
1:06.4	In less than 60 minutes, Insight is going to experience its own not quite seven minutes of terror and we'll be riding along courtesy of
1:16.8	NASA TV right over our heads here and our neighbor the global heart of robotic
1:22.0	planetary exploration the Jet Propulsion Lab,
1:25.0	which is operated by our host.
1:27.0	Yeah, let's hear it for Caltech.
1:28.0	Someone who needs no introduction had pre-recorded a welcome message for our anxious crowd in the auditorium.
1:36.4	Bill Nye here, CEO of the Planetary Society, welcome to Caltech, where we are anticipating a fantastic celebration as the Insight Lander lands on the
1:47.5	planet Mars.
1:48.5	It's another planet, people.
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