Will you be the first to see dust from another star this week on planetary radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

Andrew Westfall of the Stardust Mission returns to our show with amazing news from that spacecraft that gathered both comet dust and material from beyond our solar system.

Andrew joins us almost on the eve of and material from beyond our solar system.

Andrew joins us almost on the eve of the Stardust At Home Project,

your chance to turn scientist at your own computer

and help discover these tiny bits of matter that may have traveled light years to reach us.

Looks like everybody's traveling this week as we catch Bruce Betts on the freeways of Southern California.

He'll provide a night sky traffic report along with another opportunity

to win one of our Ultra Fab planetary radio t-shirts.

The International Space Development Conference tops our news this week. The ISDC may already be underway as many of you hear this show.

Over a thousand people are pre-registered for the biggest event ever with everyone from

spaceship one designer Bert Rutan to Planetary Society chairman Neil Tyson

attending. Longtime sponsor the National Space Society has been joined for the first time by the Planetary Society for the Los Angeles gathering.

It runs from Thursday, May 4 through Sunday, May 7.

You'll see regular updates at planetary.org, and we'll bring you highlights on next week's show.

And how about news that actually comes from space?

Will you settle for bites from space? How about 139 billion of them?

That's about how much data has been returned by Cassini,

as it circles Saturn.

But that number is deceptively small,

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