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🗓️ 24 May 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Astronauts on American Rockets, an update this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar |
| 0:14.9 | system and beyond. |
| 0:16.9 | Boeing and SpaceX are working toward the climax of NASA's commercial crew program, the effort to once again regularly get humans |
| 0:25.8 | to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station and do so on U.S. rockets and in U.S. spaceships. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll talk to the agency's John Coward. |
| 0:36.2 | He's working toward this goal with Elon Musk Company. |
| 0:39.8 | The only human spaceship that has landed on another world will win someone this week's space trivia |
| 0:44.9 | contest prize package. |
| 0:47.0 | Bill Nye has the week off, but Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lochuala is here to present a visual knockout. |
| 0:54.8 | Emily, I am crazy about this May 17 piece. |
| 0:57.8 | Saturn, small satellites to scale. |
| 1:00.8 | It is one of your, as you refer to it patented images these collections of |
| 1:06.7 | bodies in our solar system you have gained well-deserved recognition for these |
| 1:11.9 | and and this is just as fascinating as any as I have seen. |
| 1:16.3 | What amazing diversity among these moons of Saturn? |
| 1:19.8 | They really are quite strange. |
| 1:22.1 | Each one you look at is a unique world unto itself and |
| 1:24.8 | looking at one sometimes it can kind of predict the appearance of the next size one |
| 1:29.7 | but often it doesn't. They're just so diverse. You've got a whole bunch of the small bodies here and |
| 1:34.8 | then you zoom in on some of the smallest of these. They're tiny, I mean not even a cubic |
| 1:39.6 | kilometer. They get quite small and of course as you might imagine the boundary between what is a moon and what is a ring |
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