I'm Astronomycast, Episode 759, commercial lunar landers.

Welcome to Astronomycast for weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos,

where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane.

I'm the publisher of the universe today.

With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute

and the director of Cosmo Quest.

Hey, Pamela, how are you doing?

I am doing well. My audio is, is, it's doing okay enough.

You should do the, you should do the explain of shame for why your audio sounds a little tinny this week.

So, so I, I'm normally using a little tiny lapel mic except I wandered off with it and I knew where it was this morning

and between my office upstairs and the studio downstairs I stopped to make coffee and then got

distracted by the dogs and the outside.

And somewhere in my kitchen, I sat down the little tiny black box of audio goodness.

And my kitchen is chaos incarnate of bikes and gardening stuff and cooking stuff and the stuff that gets dumped when you come in from the driveway.

Yes.

And so apparently, I will clean my kitchen just so I can find my microphone.

So everybody who's listening, start your engines.

This is the first week of Pamela can't find her microphone. We'll see what happens next week. So if you hear this and we

continue the joke, then things have gotten very serious. But I wouldn't be surprised if she starts

getting creative and sort of repurposing other old gear

to end what is now going to become a running joke week after week after week.

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