A shot at the moon this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Today we celebrate 50 years of

humans in space with a man who has covered it every step of the way.

J. Barbry co-wrote the just reissued and enhanced bestseller Moon Shop, the inside story of

America's Apollo Moon landings.

Bill Nye has been looking back at Earth from space and Bruce Betts will help me find major appliances in space.

First up is the editor of the Planetary Society blog Emily Loch Duwala.

Emily a new month promises to be an eventful month in space. We're going to talk about

your what's up in the solar system for July, but first a couple of interesting things

in the blog about the space shuttle with that last launch coming up we think on July 8th as we speak.

That's right and you know human space exploration is not something that I typically cover

which is why I'm so happy we have Jason Davis guest blogging at the Planetary Society blog.

He has posted two reports that tell you exactly what's going to be happening at every moment

during the launch, the very last launch of Atlantis, and there will be one more of those coming this week and

he will be covering the launch in detail currently scheduled for July 8th.

There's also a really cool feature I just point to it on the Atlantic magazine's in focus feature which the same guy from the

Boston Globe who used to do the big picture and he jumped over to Atlantic late last year and

he just picked 61 amazing images.

It's beautiful. I especially a loved one that has about half the

crew of the Starship Enterprise watching the unveiling of the Starship or Space Shuttle

Enterprise back quite a few years ago more than I care to talk

about I think I was out there for that okay what is coming up this month in

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