Have Space Suit will travel 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. A jam-packed show this week as we hear from a leader

of the company that NASA has just picked to design the space suit that will eventually

take Americans back to the moon.

Mark Gittleman of Oceanarian International will tell us about this piece of the

constellation program.

We've also got a special extended visit with Emily Lochuwala in which she'll tell us about an

instrument that may have detected early signs of a global dust storm on Mars.

And Bruce Batts has learned to tweet about the night sky, random space facts, and this week's

space trivia contest with your chance to win a planetary radio t-shirt.

You can visit planetary.org for lots of news about what's going on up there, perhaps beginning

with another detailed update on the Mars Exploration Rovers.

Emily has much more than that in the space blog. I'll be right back with Mark

Gettleman first. Here's Bill. Hey, Bill Nye, the Planetary Guy here, Vice

President of Planetary Society, this week speaking to you from New York.

I'm traveling, continuing the Bill 9, the Science Guy, Change the World Tour going to various

universities back east.

Now this week was quite a week, you know, it was the hundred hours of astronomy

where we got people around the world to take a few minutes and look through a telescope

at the spectacular arrangement of planets and for me as always

Saturn just has my heart. It's just a beautiful, beautiful object.

I also had the privilege of speaking to an organization called the National Space Foundation. the conservative people. There's a lot of military people there. There's a lot of aerospace contractors who make

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