Going to sail through space this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond.

This is a fun one.

I'll take you down to the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Naval Base San Diego, where the Navy is working

with NASA to prepare for the ocean recovery of Orion, the spacecraft that may carry astronauts

to the Moon and Mars.

We'll go on board the USS Anchorage, talk with the head of NASA's recovery team and

astronaut Stephen Bowen, and with the commanding officer of the Anchorage.

Bruce Betts will be along later with What's Up.

To begin, we welcome back the Planetary Society's digital editor,

Jason Davis.

Jason, welcome back once again.

You posted on January 25th at planetary.org

this new piece called Creating a Guidebook

for Earth's hypothetical Twin, which is not so much about is there life

out there on some Earth-like planet in the Goldilocksome, but how we're going to

detect that life from the enormous distance that we're working from.

And you talk to at least one great astronomer.

I guess she told you among other things that really it's not enough to be an astronomer.

You're going to have to be kind of a geologist, a chemist, a biologist, and maybe even a climatologist.

Yeah, you really need to have a complete picture of what life was like here on Earth over our history and to realize that humans have only been on Earth for just kind of a fraction of that, well a medium,

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