Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight is the new and outstanding collection of poems edited by Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos. They’ll join us to hear poems in the collection read by Bill Nye, Robert Picardo, Sasha Sagan, astronauts, scientists and others. Bruce Betts looks away from the night sky long enough to pen his own poetic contribution. We’ve also got space headlines from The Downlink, and a new space trivia contest. Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/1014-2020-poetry-johnson-cokinos
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| 0:00.0 | Join us for a celebrity space poetry jam this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:18.0 | The book is titled Beyond Earth's Edge, The Poetry of Spaceflight. I knew it was something special as soon as I heard |
| 0:25.6 | about it from its creators. You're about to meet them and you'll hear nine of the nearly |
| 0:30.2 | 100 poems in this outstanding collection. |
| 0:34.0 | Our readers are astronauts Leland Melvin and Nicole Stott. |
| 0:38.0 | Scientists Linda Spilker and Alan Stern, authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Sasha Sagan, my former colleague Emily Lock Diwala, |
| 0:46.1 | actor director Robert Picardo, and Bill Nye. Later Bruce Betts will share a little rhyme of his |
| 0:52.1 | own as he takes us on another |
| 0:54.0 | what's up tour of the night sky. |
| 0:56.0 | You may have seen the Caribbean from space before, but I bet you've never seen it from a solar sail. |
| 1:02.0 | That image from LightSail 2 tops the October 9th edition of |
| 1:06.4 | the Downlink that includes these stories. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully |
| 1:12.1 | passed all the tests of its ability to survive a 2021 |
| 1:16.3 | launch. |
| 1:17.7 | NASA will unfold its big segmented mirror and roll out the sunshade one more time before the big scope is packed up and sent to |
| 1:26.1 | South America for launch on a European Space Agency, Arian 5. Speaking of Visa, the agency has announced that Exomars will leave for the Red Planet on the |
| 1:37.3 | 22nd of September in 2022. |
| 1:41.4 | Have you seen the deep space selfie? |
| 1:44.0 | China's Chan Wen 1 released a camera that snapped shots of its Mars-bound mother. |
| 1:50.0 | The bigger spacecraft returned the favor by shooting a movie of its tiny tumbling offspring. |
| 1:56.0 | Mars is waiting for you at planetary.org slash Downlink. |
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