Kepler Begins Search for Other Earths
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 11 May 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Kepler looks for other Earth's this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final |
| 0:20.4 | Frontier. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:24.0 | Bill Baruchy says his new sharp-eyed spacecraft has what it takes to discover Earth-sized planets |
| 0:31.2 | circling other stars and that some of them may be in just the right place |
| 0:36.1 | to support life. |
| 0:37.9 | We'll talk with Bill as Kepler begins the hunt. |
| 0:41.1 | Bill Nye says keep an eye on the X-37 this summer. It could help us replace the space |
| 0:46.2 | shuttle. And Bruce Betts will have his eye on the night sky as he fends off aggressive |
| 0:51.8 | reindeer in this week's what's up. |
| 0:54.4 | Emily Lachowala is on maternity leave and doing just fine. |
| 0:58.8 | Space Shuttle Atlantis may be on its way to the Hubble Space Telescope by the time you hear this. It's the fifth |
| 1:04.8 | and final repair and upgrade visit to the Great Instrument. Meanwhile, back down here on Terra, |
| 1:10.8 | the Obama administration has issued a proposed budget for NASA that would boost Earth |
| 1:16.0 | and space science, robotic missions around our solar system, and the new Ari's Orion Human |
| 1:21.5 | Space Fight System. You can get the planetary society's take on the budget at |
| 1:26.0 | planetary.org. Here's Bill. |
| 1:29.2 | Hey, Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice of the planetary society and this week in |
| 1:35.1 | space news at least in the United States everybody has still been out of shape |
| 1:39.9 | that the space shuttle is going to be retired when the space shuttle is going to be retired. |
| 1:43.0 | And the space shuttle is going to be retired, |
| 1:45.0 | 6,500 people are going to be laid off in Florida. |
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