Looking back at Ray Bradbury's birthday and a close brush with Mars on planetary radio. Radio.

Hello everyone and welcome, I'm at Kaplan.

Hello everyone and welcome.

I'm at Kaplan.

Our staff is on a very short summer sabbatical this week, so we're

going to use the opportunity to bring back one of our most popular shows. It was almost

exactly one year ago that the Planetary Society celebrated the birthday of a living

national treasure. Even though you're about to join the party, not all the well-wishers

could be there in person.

Hello, Ray, and happy birthday. This is great. could be there in person

hello ray and happy birthday this is Gregory vennford

we've bumped into each other and i guess for the last thirty years

make Emily remember a professor physics that you UC Irvine and I've introduced you down there to

enormous crowds several times. Scientists often get bogged down in the details, but you've always

had the gift to look above the heads of the throng of detail and

See the long perspectives and everything you've written still applies to the future we're all still trying to bring about.

After all, we haven't walked on Mars yet.

And on this birthday, I certainly wish you long life

and let's see some more work.

Thanks so much and happy birthday.

And thank you, Greg Benford, for helping us get a very special edition of Planetary Radio

underway.

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