Dazzling innovations from NIAC, this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond.

NIAC is the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program.

It was once again my great pleasure to host the live webcast of the programs 2022 Symposium

in Tucson, Arizona.

As you'll hear, there were new faces, familiar faces, and even a few famous faces among

this year's NIAC presenters will hear from a sizable number of them in what I'm calling

a speed dating introduction to their brilliant ideas that they hope to turn into realities.

And we'll try to get Bruce Betts to give you the shirt off his back.

Have you heard?

We didn't just nudge an asteroid.

We gave it a great big shove.

Congratulations to the double asteroid redirection test team and two NASA's Planetary Defense

Coordination Office.

We learned as this week's show was coming together that the dark spacecraft's impact caused

a substantial change in the orbit of Dimorphos, the smallest moonlit space rock that orbits

larger didimose.

The work is far from finish, but we now have good evidence that we can prevent asteroids

from causing hell on Earth if we find the dangerous ones soon enough.

Check out our coverage at Planetary.org.

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