Conference on the Future of the American Space Program with Bill Nye
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 19 April 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Putting America's space program back on track this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final |
| 0:20.3 | Frontier. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:24.5 | On April 15, Tax Day in America, the American President flew down to the Kennedy Space |
| 0:29.8 | Center to talk about that historic facility's future, along with the future of NASA and |
| 0:35.3 | America's role in space exploration and development. |
| 0:39.2 | Bill Nye, the Science and Planetary Guy, was there, and he'll give us a special report. |
| 0:44.0 | Devious carbon-based animals found gazing earthward. |
| 0:49.0 | The plot of a new sci-fi horror flick? |
| 0:51.0 | No, just a way to remember Saturn's rings, courtesy of listener B Clark |
| 0:55.7 | Williams. |
| 0:56.7 | Bruce Betts and I will announce the winners of our Saturnian Ring Neemonic contest during |
| 1:01.5 | today's What's Up segment. |
| 1:03.6 | Let's get underway by enjoying another online visit with Emily Lochuwala, the Planetary |
| 1:08.0 | Society Science and Technology Coordinator. |
| 1:10.9 | Emily, lots of coverage on the blog over the last week that you didn't write, but a lot of I'm the conference in Florida just last week. |
| 1:23.2 | And one photo in particular I want to call attention to, |
| 1:26.6 | Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon, |
| 1:28.7 | and the President of the United States |
| 1:30.8 | looking like they are just fascinated by a potato. |
| 1:34.3 | It looks an awful lot like a potato, but so do lots of other small bodies in the solar |
| 1:37.6 | system. |
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