The search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues this week on planetary Radio. Radio.

Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Paul Horwitz isn't listening for aliens anymore.

No, he's looking for ET's flashlight.

The leader of the

optical SETI project returns to our show to tell us about the latest

innovations aiding his search.

Bill Nye will join us from an amazing meeting.

In fact, it's the amazing meeting in Las Vegas. And Bruce Betts will help me give away two copies of

Moonshot, the enhanced e-book.

That will be right after he tells us about the night sky and a very big week in space history.

As we finish this week's program, Shuttle Atlantis's last mission, the last for any of the current

space shuttles, was moving smoothly toward its return to Mother Earth on July 20th.

That's the 42nd anniversary of the first landing of humans on the moon.

Time sure flies when you're having fun.

You don't have to look farther for proof of that

statement than our weekly visit with Emily. Emily Loch Tawala, the science and

technology coordinator for the Planetary Society, has returned from Hawaii and you've got the girls are there in the background so we're just

going to listen to them quietly playing as you tell us about what must have just been geologist

equestrian heaven.

It was kind of a funny combination, but yes, I rode on a horse down into the middle of

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