China on the Final Frontier

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Low Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, even Neptune and the edge of the solar system--China’s ambitious plans for space exploration and development are laid out by Planetary Society contributing editor and Chinese space program expert Andrew Jones. Jason Davis provides a brief overview of what’s in the June Solstice edition of The Planetary Report, now available for free. And it’s time to give away ice cream on What’s Up! Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0624-2020-andrew-jones-china-space-program.html

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0:00.0	China and the final frontier this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:14.8	system and beyond. Andrew Jones is back. Our treasured contributing editor
0:20.2	will share all of the challenges China has taken on from a space station in low Earth orbit to beyond Pluto.
0:27.0	Well, not everything, because as you'll hear from Andrew, the Middle Kingdom has far more underway than we have time for.
0:34.2	We'll also visit with Jason Davis, the Society's editorial director introduces the June
0:40.2	Solstice edition of the Planetary report. Later on one of you is going to win
0:45.6	delicious ice cream and a spoon to eat it with. What more could you ask for? Well how
0:51.5	about asteroid day? It arrives on the 30th of June just
0:55.5	as it does every year but the celebration is already underway. Our boss the
1:00.4	science guy is part of it you can learn more at asteroid day dot o'rg.
1:05.8	Remember the planet you save may be your own.
1:09.6	Speaking of celebrations if you are catching this week's plan red right away you might still be able
1:14.4	to join Bill Nye Bruce Betts, Jennifer Vaughn, Light Sale Project Manager Dave Spencer,
1:19.6	and me as we mark a year of sailing on the light of the sun.
1:24.0	The live webcast starts Thursday, June 25th at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, 11 p.m. UT.
1:30.6	You can register free at planetary.org through the link to the light sale extended
1:36.2	mission coverage. The show will be available on demand soon after.
1:40.8	Just time for one headline from the latest edition of the downlink.
1:45.2	A NASA rover called Viper will head for the Moon's South Pole next year,
1:50.9	hitching a ride on an astrobotic lander.
1:54.3	Some of you remember my conversation with Astrobotic CEO John Thornton last August.
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