The basics of interplanetary flight this week on planetary radio. Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Don't start that mission to Neptune

till you hear today's conversation with the Jet Propulsion Labs, Dave Duty.

He hasn't just written about getting from here to there.

He teaches it.

Bill Nye has the latest ups and downs regarding NASA funding for planetary science, and

Bruce Betts will join me in a wake-up call for the night sky. We'll get off to a great start with Emily

Lochuwala. Emily something very different this week actually a few things that are

very different. You've got some slightly doctored photos, robot shaming, but also these very pretty pictures, really beautiful photos of Space ship two.

Yeah, the one of Space ship two poised next to the moon just really has to be seen to be believed.

It's an amazing shot.

The photographer must have planned it far ahead with the big long lens in order to make it look at.

It's just stunning, so you definitely have to check that

one yeah I suspect that Richard Branson is smiling about that one and this

robot chaming you really have to see just if you want a good laugh but let's get to the

one that you posted on April 4th, because if there is anything that more of us share, perhaps even more than our fascination with the about this

since I was a graduate student, which was quite a long time ago, and the conference presentations have not gotten any better, despite my complaining about it in the hallways,

which is obviously not an effective thing to do.

So finally, I decided to write what turned out to be a rather long

post is more than 4,000 words in which I lay out some of the things that I've

learned about how to make conferences, conference talks more effective.

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