New Space, Old Space, Aerospace, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Steve Isakowitz has moved from Virgin Galactic to the nearly 60 yearyear-old Aerospace Corporation.

We'll talk with him about the changing culture of the space industry,

and some of what the scientist and engineers are up to at his new place of business.

Later we've got a special treat for the real space gearheads among you, our beloved

podcast listeners.

Aerospace has just received a second round of funding for development of what amounts to a

spacecraft printed on a sheet of paper like plastic. We'll have an extended

conversation with the scientists leading that effort.

Phew! the Earth will survive another close encounter with an asteroid on April 19th.

Bill Nye will share his concern about near-Earth objects, and we begin with a story reported by Planetary

Society digital editor Jason Davis.

Jason, it's in this April 7th blog post, really quite fascinating and surprising that we learn a little bit

about NASA's latest revelations about plans to get humans to Mars.

This kind of snuck in under the radar, didn't it? But not for you.

Yeah, uh, NASA announced this in a NASA advisory council meeting, which is kind of this group of third party

experts that NASA reports to on how things are going every now and then the

council gives them plans and feedback and NASA goes back, sees them again in three months.

These meetings aren't really publicized, they are open to the public, so some space

reporters listen in, but there was not a big publicity splash on NASA's part, certainly

not on the level of, say, SpaceX's announcement of colonizing Mars or something like that.

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