Revisiting our celebration of the Voyager anniversary, this week on Planetary Radio.

Hello again everyone, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human

adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Yes, I'm back for this special edition of our show that features our 2022 celebration

of the Voyager mission, those twin spacecraft that began their journeys more than 45 years ago.

Regular Planetary Radio Hoseira Alachmed should be back with you next week.

She wants everyone to know she is steadily recovering from the nasty case of COVID.

She mentioned at the top of last week's show. She's also very grateful for the lovely messages

so many of you have shared with her. We rarely repeat a feature, but Voyager's 45th anniversary party

at the Jet Propulsion Lab is worth a second listen. Later you'll hear me get back together

with Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts for a brand new WhatsApp segment.

And here are a few highlights from the March 3 issue of the downlink. Our free weekly newsletter,

beginning with a promotion for a good friend of the Planetary Society and Space Exploration.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that Nikola Fox will serve as the new associate

administrator of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Nikki previously ran NASA's Helio

Physics Division, a job she got after serving as project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe.

You'll hear my conversation with her at the Voyager celebration in this week's show.

Coincidence? The European Space Agency has also chosen its new Director of Science. She is

astronomer and astrophysicist Carol Mundell. Professor Mundell became president of the United

Kingdom Science Council in 2021 and was the first woman to serve as Chief Scientific Advisor

at the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Congratulations to both of these outstanding leaders.

We got more proof last week that old Planetary Science missions never die. NASA's Magellan

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