Armadillo's in space, this week on planetary radio. I'm Mad Kaplan of the Hi everyone welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the

final frontier.

I'm Mad Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The Armadillo

we're talking about is Armadillo Aerospace, the tiny Texas company that won

350,000 dollars from NASA a couple of months ago.

The company's dreams go far beyond that success,

reaching at least as far as the edge of space.

Neo Milburn is Vice president, program manager,

and one of the founders of Armadillo.

He'll join us from their secret location.

Emily Lachtoala knows there's no atmosphere on the moon, but was it always such a vacuous orb?

She'll let the air out of this issue on Q&A.

Bruce Betts will be along with his usual perusal of the night sky and a new contest that

will let you demonstrate that you're Johnny Neemonic, if not Kiano Reeves, or should I say

Clatoo, Bill Nye has the week off.

Our Earth, like the rest of the Cosmos, is hardly standing still.

Did you hear about the discovery of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exo or extra solar planet, there's a story about this important find at

planetary.org. While there you can check out the latest news in Emily's blog where she reports that the mechanical

problem with the doors on the Phoenix Landers Tiga instrument were not really

a surprise. You may remember that engineers for the Mars Mission had a devil of a time getting

those little lover-like doors to open up. I'll be right back with Neil Milburn, but first, this

special message recorded about 200 miles over your

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