A Journey to Space This Week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Your journey to space may be as close as the nearest IMAX theater

where a new film by that name might be on the big screen.

We'll talk to its director, as well as two of the people behind the terrific hands-on

Journey to Space Exhibit, now hosted by the California Science Center.

You're also going to hear lots of well-earned congratulations

for the Japanese team that has just achieved something marvelous.

More about that in a moment from Emily Lockawala and then Bill Nye.

First though, a note about our little contest for that signed copy of Randall Monroe's

great new book, Thing Explainer, will keep taking entries till 8 AM Pacific time on the morning

of Tuesday, December 15th.

Just write to me at planetary radio at planetary.org, and just one entry per person please here's the

planetary society's senior editor Emily space exploration fans in Japan and

really around the world have reason to celebrate.

Tell us why.

The lights are back on in the inner solar system.

We have another spacecraft in orbit at Venus.

And that's Japan's Akatsiki, which tried to do this once five years ago.

It failed.

Its main engine cone actually blew off the spacecraft.

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