Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at the Space Settlement Summit this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Astronaut Explorer, Marine General, and Pilot Charles Bolden came to his alma mater at the University of Southern California

to participate in the summit. You'll hear my conversation with him and others at this annual

gathering, including Space Station designer and

author Al Globus.

I've got a surprise for Bruce Betts in this week's What's Up segment and more great prizes

for the winner of a new space trivia contest.

It has been a busy week around the solar system.

Planetary Society senior editor Emily Lochuala gets us underway

with what is nearly a grand tour of that system and beyond.

Emily, a whole bunch of topics, five, to try and get through in a short amount of time this week. Some of these, most of these in fact are on the Planetary

society website, the planetary.org. Let's start with a little news brief from Jason Davis, our colleague, the digital editor at the Society that he published on December

10th and it's about Osiris Rex not just having arrived now at Benu, but making terrific discoveries already.

Yes, apparently with its spectrometers the signal of hydrated minerals is being just

blasting out loud and clear from the surface of the asteroid. What that means is minerals with

water in their crystal structures. It isn't exactly liquid water flowing

across the surface of the asteroid, but it's good news if you want to do inset your resource utilization go mining

asteroids and getting water for fuel. There's more in Jason's blog post including

some facts and figures about this little rock which really isn't so little he lists that the

Osiris Rex team has determined the mass is 7.34 times 10 to the 10th kilograms, which I find very entertaining and fascinating.

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