listening for the birth of the universe and more this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Could the gravity waves generated by the Big Bang

still be detectable? The men and women of Lisa hope so. Lisa, that's the laser interferometer space antenna, an antenna that will listen not for

electromagnetic waves, but waves of gravity, and will do so with some of the most amazing instrumentation ever

created. We'll talk with Tom Prince, the U.S. chair of the Lisa Science

team that hopes to one day put free spacecraft in deep space and connect them

across millions of kilometers with laser beams.

Emily Lachowala will take us back to the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting

held in Pasadena a couple of weeks ago, and Bruce Bats will help me decode this week's listener introduction of random space fact.

Bruce also has some great tips about what to look for in the night sky.

Wunders of the Solar System is the Terrific BBC series presented by Professor Brian Cox.

We're giving the 3 DVD set to the winner of the new Space Trivia Contest.

Bill Nye will return with his commentary next week.

The Science and Planetary Guy got a last-minute summons to Washington, D.C. for the White House

Science Fair.

Emily, thanks for checking in with us on the road.

This would be a somewhat abbreviated report.

We'll hear more from you next week, and I think we're going to hear more about DPS,

both this week and next week.

What did you want to cover today that you saw at that recent conference?

Well, today I thought I'd talk about the Titan stuff that I saw on the Friday morning, really right

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