Recovering the Artemis I Orion capsule and sampling the best from 20 years of our show this week on Planetary Radio.

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

Welcome to the second to last Planetary Radio episode that I will host.

How do you follow a visit with JPL's Rob Manning and author of the Martian Andy Weir?

With a visit to Naval Base San Diego where I stood a few feet from a human-rated spacecraft that had just returned from the moon.

You'll hear my conversations with the captain of the recovery ship with NASA Recovery Director Melissa Jones and with astronaut Shannon Walker.

Then comes another treat. My Planetary Society colleague Merck Boyen's parting gift is a beautiful montage of moments from some of my favorite episodes.

You'll hear Sally Ride, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Freeman Dyson, Bob Picardo, Mary Roach, Linda Spilker, Bill Nye, and a cameo appearance by Buzz Aldrin.

Incoming Planetary Radio hosts Sarah Alamed will drop by in a couple of minutes to Vell over spectacular images of Neptune delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope.

And here's a heads up. I sing two, count them two, songs in this week's What's Up Segment with Bruce Spetz. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Speaking of the JWST, check out the image of two galaxies colliding that the Big Space Telescope also captured. It's at the top of the December 16 edition of our weekly newsletter, The Downlink.

You can subscribe to it for free. You know what else is free? The digital version of our beautiful quarterly magazine, The Planetary Report.

The galaxy's image is one of those featured in the new December Solstice issue that presents many of 2022's Best Space Photos. It's all at planetary.org.

Another Downlink story shares the news that Sophia, that Boeing 747 with a big infrared telescope, has been flown to its final resting place, the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

I visited the museum during my recent stay in Tucson. They have several other history making NASA airplanes there along with a space shuttle solid rocket booster and much more. It's well worth the trip.

Here's Sarah.

Sarah, welcome back and thanks for tipping me off at this article that details these absolutely outstanding wonderful new observations of Neptune by the JWST, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Now available at planetary.org, Heidi Hamill, astronomer, Vice President for Science at Aura, the Association for Universities of Universities for Research and Astronomy.

Of course, she's also Vice President of the Planetary Society and a member of our board since 2005.

It has joined me here on planetary radio many times. Join, though, by Naomi Rowe Gurney, a post-doctoral research at NASA, Goddard, so a young astronomer coming up.

We really haven't seen Neptune like this since that single voyage or fly by, have we?

No, it's been since 1989. It's been a long, long time. So to get another glimpse of this planet and just really look at all the beautiful details, it was so stunning.

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