Crew Dragon Triumphant, and a Planetary Society Founder Remembers
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Astronaut and former SpaceX director of space operations Garrett Reisman returns to help us celebrate and appreciate the just-completed first crewed mission by a Crew Dragon capsule. Then we settle in with Planetary Society Emeritus Executive Director Lou Friedman for great stories from his new memoir, Planetary Adventures: From Moscow to Mars. Chase Chief Scientist Bruce Betts down the rotating black hole and get ready for the Perseid meteor shower in this week’s What’s Up. Great links and more are at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0805-2020-reisman-crew-dragon-friedman-planetary-adventures
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| 0:00.0 | As Crew Dragon Triumphs, we enjoy planetary adventures with Lou Friedman this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | There it is, this the first view from the W.B. 57 airplane. We have that |
| 0:18.7 | combat with Bob and Doug. Visual two droves out. |
| 0:26.0 | Splash down. |
| 0:28.0 | As you can see on your screen, we have visual confirmation for splash down. Space X copies of concurs. |
| 0:38.0 | We see splash down and mains cut. |
| 0:41.0 | Dragon Endeavor has returned home. |
| 0:44.0 | NASA astronauts Bob and Doug. |
| 0:45.8 | Half of the SpaceX and NASA teams, welcome back to Planet Earth and thanks for flying |
| 0:50.0 | SpaceX. The splash down of Crew Dragon Endeavor, marking the end of demo mission |
| 0:57.7 | two and the return of astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley from the International Space Station. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar |
| 1:10.0 | system and beyond. |
| 1:12.0 | I was one of the millions who watched worried and celebrated on |
| 1:15.1 | Sunday August 2nd. So was Garrett Reisman. The astronaut and former SpaceX |
| 1:20.4 | director of space operations is back with an inside view of this |
| 1:24.7 | success. Then I've got another treat for you, the founding executive director of |
| 1:29.4 | the Planetary Society, Lewis Friedman, has collected some of his best stories in a new book, |
| 1:35.6 | Planetary Adventures, and he'll share several with us. |
| 1:39.2 | All that and Bruce Betts? |
| 1:41.2 | But wait, there's more. |
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