We're live at the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show on Planetary Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

We're back at Pat's, the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show, in

Pasadena, California, with an audience full of astronomers. Let's hear it for

Amateur Sky Watchers. Our special guest will be JPL Steve Chesley of the Osiris Rex asteroid

sample return mission. Steve and I will be joined by our own Bruce Betts who will

tell us how you might be chosen to name the mission's target asteroid.

Bruce will stick around for this week's What's Up and your chance to win a

celestial first scope. We're going to give another first scope to a

lucky member of our audience here at Pat's. First though, let's check in with

Emily locked walla and Bill Nye. Emily, just a short visit today as we try to crowd in as much of what we recorded at

Pat's as possible, although the podcast version of the show will have much more.

You made what looks like a really exciting trip out to Edwards Air Force Base.

Yeah, I'd never been to Edwards before and so I had no idea what to expect, but we were

hustled out to this dirt access road right next to the runway where the shuttle was to land and of course before that happened the Air Force was doing their Air Force things and taking off all kinds of really fun fighter jets right in front of us so that was enjoyable.

But then yeah that the shuttle came in the shuttle carrier aircraft the S. E. A.

came and did a loop around Edwards so we saw kind of all sides of the shuttle

there right on top of the 747 and you know it's kind of

amazing how large the shuttle is in comparison to the aircraft that's carrying it

and then it landed right in front of us and we had a chance to walk around it on all

sides and and see it from

every angle. I took a bunch of 3D photos that are on the blog. It was kind of

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