China on the Final Frontier

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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With missions like Chang’e 4 on the far side of the Moon, China has firmly established itself as a leader in space exploration. Space journalist Andrew Jones helps us explore the nation’s ambitious near and long-term plans. Emily Lakdawalla says Mars lander InSight’s Mole has hit an obstacle, while Jason Davis shows us how Japan’s Hayabusa2 has blasted asteroid Ryugu for a sample and celebrates the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Chief Scientist Bruce Betts gets a polite dressing down from an impeccable source. Learn more about this week’s guest and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0306-2019-andrew-jones-china.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	China on the Final Frontier, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:08.8	Welcome. I'm At Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:16.6	So much to talk about today, including a long and fascinating conversation with space journalist Andrew Jones.
0:23.6	I don't know anyone outside China who knows more about what the Middle Kingdom is doing and plans to do in space.
0:31.6	I think you'll be impressed.
0:33.6	Crew Dragon is still docked with the International Space Station as we complete this episode.
0:38.6	We'll talk with Jason Davis about this big step toward astronauts once again riding U.S. spacecraft into orbit,
0:46.3	along with more big news from Jason.
0:48.8	And Bruce Betts will get politely dressed down for the wording of the space trivia contest question that will resolve this week.
0:56.2	His accuser is someone who ought to know. We begin delightfully with senior editor, Emily Lockdawalla.
1:03.1	Emily, a couple of things for us to cover in this brief segment. And I want to start with the
1:08.6	first line in your blog post from March 1st.
1:12.8	Mars could have given us a break, but it didn't.
1:16.3	What are you about here?
1:18.0	It's the same old story, isn't it?
1:19.4	Yeah.
1:19.7	So Insight landed in a spot on Mars that looked absolutely perfect for the mole.
1:26.4	It landed inside the sandy hollow, which seems like
1:30.6	a bowl full of sand. It should be absolutely perfect for it to be able to put this little heat probe in
1:35.3	down about three or five meters in order to measure the rate at which heat propagates through the
1:40.5	soil and the rate at which the heat is emanating from Mars's interior.
1:45.0	Well, it turns out Mars had other ideas. There appears to have been a rock buried underneath
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