Farewell Rosetta!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The European Space Agency’s magnificent Rosetta mission ended last week as the spacecraft gently touched down on the comet it has revealed.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Farewell Rosetta, job well done. This week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:16.3	solar system and beyond.
0:18.9	The Rosetta Mission to Comet Choriamov-Gersementenko has taken its place among the greatest voyages of exploration in history.
0:26.3	We'll listen as the spacecraft touches down and then we'll hear from Emily Lacuadwala.
0:31.3	Our senior editor was at the European Space
0:34.2	Operation Center for the dramatic finish. Later all visit with Bruce Betts for
0:39.3	this week's What's Up. This time will begin with planetary CEO Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
0:45.6	He was there last week when Elon Musk of SpaceX laid out his plan for colonizing Mars that could have been straight out of science fiction.
0:55.0	Bill, nobody ever accused Elon Musk of thinking small.
0:59.0	No, so at the International Astronautical Congress, the IAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico,
1:08.4	Elon Musk presented this amazing huge picture plan of building that included building an
1:16.5	enormous rocket that would take a hundred people at a time and their
1:21.6	luggage to Mars. You laugh but this is you know his thing.
1:26.3	It was the luggage that got to me. He's a he can tell a story I'm I'm paraphrasing as best I can, but the idea is the thing that I took away from this was the enthusiasm.
1:39.2	Now, there were almost, I guess there were over 500. There may have been a thousand Mexican students who got into the Congress that day.
1:48.4	Congress is European for a conference.
1:51.2	Got into the Congress that day and just overran the place.
1:55.8	They were jumping over chairs, running to the front of the room.
2:00.0	They knocked our colleague Aaron real hard and she had to give her basketball whistling
2:06.9	elbow.
2:07.9	It was really impressive how enthusiastic people are for this.
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