Kids in Space

Kids in Space, this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

No, NASA isn't actually taking children into orbit, not yet anyway,

but it is giving them a chance to put their experiments on the International Space Station.

We'll talk about the kids in MicroG program with the Space Agency's Debbie Biggs.

Thanks to Emily Lochuala and some talented fans of space exploration,

you can now own all of the public updates issued during the Voyager missions.

Emily will tell you how to get them.

Bill Nye has discovered that Pluto's

planetary status is still being debated and Bruce Betts will tell us about the

night sky and why he'll be hanging ham from his Christmas tree.

We'll go first to the Planetary Society Science and Technology Coordinator.

Emily, let's start with a recent piece in the blog about the Voyager tracking that you've been doing or rather

Bringing back to the surface these reports done as the Voyager missions were still underway

That's right. It's easy to forget that there was anything

that was that happened before the advent of the internet but in fact quite a lot

happened in space exploration before we could follow every moment of it on the

web and and the Voyager missions I think were one thing that ignited a lot of people's excitement about robotic space exploration and the way that people learned about it was in these printed newsletters.

They were two to four pages long with photos from the

voyagers and you might wait six to eight weeks after the Voyager events had

happened before you got these things in your mailbox and there you got your

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