A new and powerful space telescope takes shape this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

It's the James Webb Space Telescope. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

It's the James Webb's Space Telescope,

and it promises images that will outstrip the work

of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope.

We'll get a status report from Eric Smith, deputy program director for the web at

NASA headquarters. Bill Nye is just back from New York and the premiere of his

new Planetary Society videos high above Times Square. They couldn't see the stars

from inside the Super Bowl unless you count Madonna. Bruce Betts will tell those

fans what they missed in this week's what's up segment. First though Emily

locked while and I were about a hundred miles south of Los Angeles last Saturday.

Emily were down in San Diego at the third annual space-up on conference and it's been a pretty fun day.

It has been a fun day. You know you never know what you're going to get when you go into

an on conference at least I learned that's that's how they work and so we've had an excellent day I've learned

about how to use social networking better I've learned a lot about X Corps's

links suborbital space plane and I learned a lot about what people want from the

planetary society so I think it's been very productive.

Yeah we had a special session and quite a turnout a lot of very enthusiastic people

talking about where the direction they'd like to see the society go in and you've

gotten in some arts and crafts too.

Yeah I've been sewing away at more spacecraft I was inspired actually there's several

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