LIFE Heads for Space Aboard Shuttle Endeavour

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 18 April 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0	Life heads for orbit this week on planetary radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.
0:20.0	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:23.0	Life is the living interplanetary flight experiment.
0:27.0	With luck, it will leave for one of the moons of Mars later this year,
0:31.0	but Life will first get a dress rehearsal on the last flight of
0:35.2	space shuttle endeavor. We'll talk with two of the scientists that loaded a variety of
0:40.2	microorganisms for this trip.
0:43.0	Speaking of life, could it exist throughout the galaxy on worlds like Saturn's
0:47.2	frigid moon Titan?
0:49.2	That's one of the topics we'll take up with Emily Loch Duwala.
0:52.8	Bill Nye says that 50 years after Yuri Gagarin,
0:56.2	commercial spaceflight is finally taking off.
0:59.1	We'll wrap it all up with Bruce Betts and what's up?
1:02.0	Who's that Celebrity Random Space Fact performer?
1:06.0	Don't forget your free tickets for Planetary Radio Live on Saturday, May 28
1:11.0	are waiting for you at brown paper tickets.com. I hope you'll be able to join
1:15.9	us in Pasadena for this show. Emily let's start with this latest release of Data from
1:21.8	Cassini. Lots of nice from Cassini.
1:22.8	Lots of nice stuff about moons?
1:25.2	Yeah, there's always lots of gems
1:26.8	to pick out of any Cassini data release.
1:28.9	These happen four times a year.
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