New Space at the Space Up on Conference this week on planetary radio. Planetary Radio.

Welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. I spent Saturday, February 12 with a lot of young

and enthusiastic space crazies. They gave me a good feel for what has come to be called

new space and that's not your fathers

or your grandfather's final frontier.

Stick around and I'll make you a virtual attendee at this gathering.

As we prepared this show, Star Dust next was encountering Comet Temple

1, giving Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy ample reason to celebrate. And Bruce Betts

is waiting in the wings to bring us what's up.

With another chance to win solar system for iPad in the space trivia contest, a program

note we're almost ready to announce the date and time of the next Planrad live.

I'll give you the details on next week's show when my guest will once again be Bill Baruchy

head of the Kepler mission that has just revealed more than 1,200

extra solar planet candidates, including a handful of Earth-sized

worlds in habitable zones.

We'll get underway with a Skype visit to the Planetary Society's Science and Technology

coordinator Emily Loch Duwala.

Emily, in a couple of minutes we're going to hear Bill Nye celebrate the Stardust

next encounter with Temple One, but you've also written a little bit about it and

you'll have some of your own coverage.

Yeah, I've written a little preview, including the fact that Star Dust is practically out of gas

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