He's the planetary defense officer this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm

at the Planetary Society. NASA's Lindley Johnson has a new title and a new

office to go with it, the Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

And he has Astronomer Kelly Fast as the new program manager for the Near Earth Object

Observation Program.

We have both on this week's show, along with Emily Lockawala.

Bill Nye the Planetary Guy and of course Bruce Betts with an ISS above to give away. Bruce isn't the only one with a what's up this week. Our senior editor

reviews what's up with missions around the solar system. And only we don't have time for

everything here but give us an overview of your overview of solar system

exploration in the coming month.

Well it's another incredibly active month in solar system exploration.

We've got 20 plus spacecraft observing various targets across the solar system and

cruising to future destinations.

There is a diagram as well that I've seen you published before and it gets updated every

month.

Tell us about this.

Yeah, this is made by an amateur named Olaf Rone who he looks all across the solar

system figures out where all the spacecraft are and all of their destinations are

because he got to remember everything's a moving target in the solar system.

And it's just amazing to look at these little green names all over the place and see how many

spacecraft are at Mars. There are seven of them. See how many are orbiting Earth studying things across the solar system.

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