He may be the busiest man in space exploration this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final

Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Alan Stern has helped run

NASA. He flies in high-performance jets. Is preparing to go into space and he's in

charge of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and Beyond.

Alan returns to Planetary Radio to talk about all these things and more.

Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, marvels at the fight between two government agencies

over which will regulate commercial spaceflight.

While Bruce Betts will join me on a sunny Pasadena afternoon to give away the

complete fourth season of the universe.

The fascinating series is available from the History Channel and one of its stars is

our man Bruce.

We'll check in with Emily Lactawal in a minute, but I promised you more information about

Planetary Radio Live on Friday, April 30. By the time you hear this, you may be able to reserve

your seats online from Brown Paper Tickets.

We'll put a link to Brown Paper Tickets at planetary.org slash radio.

If you don't find the link, check back in a day or two. Now remember when I said the show will be

free? Well it turns out I lied. After all we have to pay for the cookies so

we're going to charge the outrageous sum of $2.99 and that includes the ticket service fee.

We have to control the size of the audience so you really will need a ticket to get in.

We're also proud to announce that Plan Rad

Live will be recorded at the Moan Broadcast Center in Pasadena. That's the

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