Flying to the Moon with India, this week on planetary 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. We've said it before.

Everybody's going to the moon and some of them are already there. We'll talk with

Carly Peters, principal investigator for the M- cubed instrument on Chandry and

one, the Indian probe that has just gone into orbit around our planet's only natural satellite. Emily Lachto-walla will tell us why it's a bad idea to

look at the sun or even near the sun when your Mars mission lines up with good old

soul. Of course you could also check out Emily's blog at planetary.org

for the latest news from around the solar system.

Bruce Betts will reintroduce us to the night sky

and join me in an apology. You folks just gave us too many great sixth anniversary

contest entries. So we're delaying the announcement of our winners till next week.

It's time for our friend Bill Nye to share his thoughts about one of last week's biggest

stories on or off our pale blue dot. I'll be right back with Carly Peters.

Hey Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society.

This week, astronauts in space were repairing a solar panel array that follows the sun. Now my neighbor down the street Ed Begley he's got a

solar panel array that follows the sun but his is here on earth it's not out in space

so these people are out in space working, moving around on this

enormous solar array trying to get the thing back, if you will, on track. And for

that they had to loosen and tighten some screws some

fasters and they had to squirt in some lubricant from a grease gun just like I

used to do under my old Volkswagen bug. But here's the thing. Somebody lost a tool bag.

Astronaut Stefanchen Piper lost a tool bag and it drifted off and now it's in

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