Former JPL director Bruce Murray returns to Planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final

Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. One more conversation about water and ice this

week, but we'll have it with the man who first realized that under the right conditions,

water ice could last millions or even billions of years in a

vacuum. Our own Bruce Betts will join us for this conversation with his mentor

Bruce Murray. Dr. Betts will stick around for another edition of What's Up and will learn who has won

the DVD Collector's Edition of the first three seasons of the universe from the History Channel.

Hey, if they're really gas giants why don't asteroids pass

right through them? Emily Lacawala knows why and she'll share the wealth in

Q&A. That's gone underway with Bill Nye, who notes that space and politics seem to have become

bedfellows. I'll be right back with Bruce and Bruce.

Hey, Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of Planetary Society, this week speaking to you from a

dormitory room on the campus of Cornell University, my alma mater.

I'm here to conduct some business about alumni affairs but I will also have the great honor

of doing the Astronomy 101 lecture in the very same lecture hall where I took it from none other than Carl Sagan one of the

founders of the planetary society. It's quite an exciting trip for me, really.

Meanwhile, space is becoming politicized. That is to say the politics of space are becoming prominent

in the news. That's because it's so important. We've got to sort out what to do with our tax dollars so that we most effectively

explore nearby star systems, our own star system, and then what to do with humans. Humans have been exploring space for a long time.

But now humans got to do something, if I may, newer and cooler. There's a lot of people

want to go back to the moon and there's a lot of people want to go back to the moon and there's a lot of

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