Bob Richards of Moon Express

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Moon Express Founder and CEO Bob Richards shares an inspiring vision for a return to the Moon. It includes introduction of a sophisticated line of robotic spacecraft, the first of which may make a soft landing next year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bob Richards and Moon Express this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm Ed Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.3	system and beyond.
0:17.3	One of five teams may win the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize next year.
0:23.6	Bob Richards says he'd be fine with that,
0:26.2	but his dreams are much, much bigger.
0:29.2	He'll share them with us in a few minutes.
0:31.6	Bruce Betts surprises me with an anniversary celebration on this week's What's Up segment.
0:36.5	You can join the party.
0:38.0	And then there's Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
0:40.3	He's the CEO of the Planetary Society.
0:43.2	Bill, welcome back.
0:44.2	We haven't talked for a while.
0:45.2	You've been here and there all over the United States anyway,
0:49.0	as far as I know, with that new documentary
0:51.8	about this science guy.
0:53.0	It's wild, it's a film all about me.
0:57.0	And of course there's a part in the middle where I kind of want to kill myself.
1:01.0	You know, I signed a deal where I have no creative
1:05.5	control over the final edit, you know, that's a revealing portrait briefly.
1:11.6	It is an honest, sometimes painfully honest portrait of you, the science
1:17.5	guy. It is a beautiful film though. I, as you know, I love it. And I... What do you like about it what do I like about I like
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