Celebrating Yuri’s Night with Legendary Astronaut Story Musgrave

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Los Angeles celebration of Yuri’s Night came six days early this year. It attracted hundreds of space party animals, along with celebrities like Bill Nye and Story Musgrave. Host Mat Kaplan talked with both under the wing of space shuttle Endeavour. Jason Davis is counting down to Space IL’s attempt to soft land Beresheet on the Moon. “Where We Are” is a great new visual feature of the Planetary Society. Emily Lakdawalla introduces us to it. There’s a lot to see in the night sky! Get a What’s Up preview from Bruce Betts. You can learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0410-2019-yuris-night-musgrave.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Yuri's Night conversation with Astronaut Story Musgrave this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:16.1	solar system and beyond.
0:18.6	Happy Uri's night all, or if you prefer, the International Day of Human Space Flight.
0:24.1	That's what the United Nations calls April 12th.
0:27.4	You'll forgive me, I hope, if I stick with Yuri's night.
0:31.0	After all, I'm proud to be one of the founders of the global celebration of the first humans flight into space.
0:37.0	On April 6th, I was back under Space Shuttle Endeavor in Los Angeles,
0:42.0	with hundreds of brother and sister space
0:44.3	geeks including my boss Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and legendary
0:49.8	astronaut Story Musgrave. My conversation with Story is pretty remarkable.
0:55.0	But wait, there's more. We'll hear from Emily Lockwala right after we check in with Planetary
1:00.3	Society digital editor Jason Davis about a little spacecraft that is about to make history on the moon.
1:07.0	Stick around for more fun with Bruce Betts in this week's What's Up.
1:11.0	Jason, I don't know why Space I.L. couldn't schedule this landing for a Tuesday so that it would
1:15.8	already have happened and we could talk about and glory in its great success.
1:22.0	Like it or not, it's happening the day after this episode of planetary.
1:26.5	Radio comes out that would be April 11 and you have a brand new piece up at planetary.org to prepare us for this thing that as a lot of people hear this has already happened.
1:38.0	Yes, orbital mechanics just aren't fair.
1:41.0	They should really consult with planetary radio first before I'm setting the laws of
1:46.2	physics and motion. Damn straight. It's going to happen, right? One way or another, I mean, it's now in
1:52.1	orbit around the moon, it has been for a week
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