A visit with planetary astronomer Frank Marshis this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

A funny thing happened on the way to the National... I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

A funny thing happened on the way to the National Air and Space Museum.

We recorded a terrific show there during the USA Science and Engineering Festival.

Sadly, we ran into technical problems that

were still working to resolve, but you will hear Bruce Betts and me with

today's What's Up segment in front of an enthusiastic audience at the museum.

I'll talk with Bill 9 a couple of minutes, but first we'll say hi to the Planetary

Society's Science and Technology Coordinator Emily Lockawala.

Emily, so much to talk about in very little time this week and it all

comes from the brand new website which is a terrific place to read the blog or

blogs I should say that's right now there are many although you can still get to all of

the blog entries by going to planetary.org slash blog as you have always been able to do and

you'll see my blog entries as well as numerous other voices and that's one of the

greatest things about the new

website is that it's so much easier to feature other people such as Mark

Raymond and Andy Chakin. Andy Chakin who of course has been on this show for a

while the famous author about great happenings in space exploration history.

He has posted this terrific video that he produced, that he edited himself about planetary

science. He feels very strongly as many of us do that NASA's budget is a step in the wrong direction for planetary science.

And he responded to that by producing this really quite lovely and inspiring video and he brought it to me and

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