Ben Miller says the aliens are coming this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm a chaplain of the planetary society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Another long episode is we welcome British actor, comedian, TV host, and science

communicator, Ben Miller.

His new book is aptly subtitled The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe.

We'll talk with him for nearly an hour.

Bill Nye, the Science Guy will report on We'll talk with him for nearly an hour.

Bill Nye, the Science Guy, will report on his long talk with NASA's new associate administrator

for its Science Mission Directorate.

And we'll learn from Bruce Batts about a remarkable astronaut who is also the

oldest woman to go into space. If you've heard the new space policy edition of

planetary radio you know that NASA made a big decision last week.

Senior editor Emily Lochuwala tells us more.

Emily, last week, NASA made a couple of spacecraft teams very happy.

What happened? And they made a few spacecraft teams very happy.

What happened?

And they made a few spacecraft teams very sad too, of course.

But we're all be excited for the future of the two missions that NASA selected

as the next pair of missions in its discovery program.

It was even news that NASA selected too,

although that had been expected for a long time.

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