Dear, dear podcast listeners, it is very early in the morning on Monday the 6th of August.

My voice is pretty much gone after a very long day that ended with screaming for joy and a lot of hugs at

Planetfest 2012 where we had just watched humanity and a great piece of American technology with a lot of international

cooperation set down on the surface of Mars. We were unable to include a lot of this in this week's show. We will have some

great material from Planet Fest at next week's show, but rest assured that we will

be covering lots of what's happening with curiosity.

We'll check in with Emily and see how things were from her viewpoint at JPL, of course, next week.

Thank you so much for listening.

I do want to let you know that you will hear me say

that the extended version of our conversation

with astronaut Tom Jones can be heard by listeners online.

Well of course you are those listeners online so you're hearing the whole thing

there's there's nothing more to add.

Thanks very much for joining us and thank you for your support of planetary radio and

the Planetary Society. Here's the show. Space Traveler, Space Visionary, Tom Jones, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Author, planetary

scientist and four-time space shuttle astronaut Tom Jones is back. He'll tell us

about plans to move and mine asteroids, among other things.

I talked with him in front of a live audience at CEDICON.

Emily Lochuwala provides a report on her tour of an institution that is responsible for some of the most successful robotic space

missions.

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