From Mars to the to the Stars with Lou Friedman this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Mac Kaplan to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

The founding executive director of the society has a new book.

We'll talk with Lou about human spaceflight from Mars to the Stars.

Bill Nye reflects on his predecessor as leader of the society

and Bruce Betts will help us find our way across the current night sky.

Emily Lochuwala has arrived in National Harbor, Maryland.

We found her in her hotel room on the eve of this year's meeting

of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences.

Emily, this must be your idea of heaven.

Five days of planetary science, new data, new discoveries.

I don't know about heaven.

It's going to be a lot of work but it is

going to be very exciting five days and fun five days with a lot of my friends in

the planetary science community talking about just about everything in the

solar system and we are talking on Sunday night.

You literally just arrived at your hotel, just flew in.

It starts tonight, right, with a little bit of the social element which is pretty important.

It's really the main reason to have these meetings.

You know, I went to grad school with some of these folks and a lot of them are friends of friends

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