Proving Einstein was right about space in space this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

After more than 50 years of development and data gathering,

a spacecraft called Gravity Probe B

has demonstrated that Einstein was right about the nature of space and gravity.

It's a wonderful story of science and engineering at the edge of their capabilities, and we'll

hear about it from principal investigator

Francis Everett. Bill Nye usually takes us soaring among the stars this time his

commentary will put us under the waves. Bruce Betts got quite a shock when he actually met the answer to the space trivia

contest question.

We'll share his surprise when we get to our what's up segment.

As I record this, space shuttle endeavor is docked with the

International Space Station and will make its final return to Earth in a few days.

Big personal news comes from Emily Lochuala this week.

Apparently we're not the only ones who love her planetary society blog entries.

Emily, it has been a big week.

We're going to talk about the time that you spent last week at the meeting to decide where curiosity, the Mars Science

Laboratory, maybe landing on Mars, but there was another event of some significance

in your life.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

I got a very exciting phone call

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