Looking Back, Looking Forward: Beginning a New Year In Space

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 31 December 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Planetary Society experts review the challenges and triumphs of 2012 and look forward to a new and exciting year. You’ll hear Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily Lakdawalla on new missions, Casey Dreier on “Saving our Science,” and Bruce Betts’ review of great projects, as well as a musical rendition of “Random Space Fact.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Looking back, looking forward, this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.8	Extended visits with all our regulars as we say goodbye to 2012 and hello to, you know, the
0:29.4	one that comes next.
0:31.0	We'll also hear from Casey Dreyer about the outlook for support of planetary science by
0:35.6	NASA.
0:36.8	There is much to celebrate.
0:38.9	Hundreds of newly discovered planets dot our galaxy, and some of them may be much like our own.
0:44.0	Messenger revealed Mercury as Dawn pulled the veil from asteroid Vesta.
0:50.0	Astronomers pushed our knowledge of the Cosmos even closer to its beginning, and Curiosity
0:55.2	began to uncover more of the Red Planet's secrets.
0:58.8	Much closer to home, a commercial company, SpaceX, flew cargoes to and from low Earth orbit for the first time.
1:06.4	Chinese Ticonats flew another mission while space travelers of other nations visited the
1:11.3	International Space Station.
1:13.6	So much more happen than we have time to talk about, though, our shows from throughout the year,
1:18.4	along with the blog entries from Emily Lochuwala and others, provide a surprisingly good record. They're all available
1:25.0	at planetary.org.
1:27.2	The first of our conversations today is with the Chief Executive Officer of the Planetary Society,
1:32.2	Bill Nye the Science Guy.
1:33.8	Bill, I'm glad to use you as the lead-off hitter in this little retrospective, looking
1:38.4	back at 2012, but maybe more important looking forward to 2013 and getting, you know, the big picture.
1:45.8	The CEO view.
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