Planetary Radio Live Celebrates the Launch of MAVEN

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🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The successful launch of MAVEN was covered by Mat Kaplan, Bruce Betts and Emily Lakdawalla, with special, launch site reports from Jim Bell and Bill Nye.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	MAVEN launches for Mars on Planetary Radio Live.
0:20.0	Welcome to a special edition of the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The next mission to the Red Planet is on its way.
0:26.0	You'll hear portions of our special live coverage including Emily Lochuala and Bruce Betts,
0:31.0	along with Jim Bell and Bill Nye reporting from the Florida
0:35.2	launch site.
0:36.6	We'll forego Emily and Bill's regular segments, but there is news to share.
0:41.1	On Friday, November 15th, NASA cancelled development of the Advanced Sterling
0:46.6	Radio Isotope generator, or ASRG. Casey Dreyer is the Planetary Society's Advocacy and Outreach Strategist.
0:55.7	I found him at his computer just minutes after the announcement.
0:59.2	Casey, when I was up at the office yesterday, I got the impression that you were quite surprised by this very disturbing development.
1:05.3	Yeah, that's true. No one really saw it coming. Of course it came out on a Friday afternoon. Your classic bad news,
1:11.2	data dump time. It unexpected but again kind of one of those things
1:15.9	in retrospect where it makes sense considering the financial pressures that
1:20.7	NASA and particularly planetary science is facing.
1:23.7	So here we were just a few weeks ago on this program talking at somewhat greater length
1:28.5	about why these developments, not just the creation of plutonium, but the development of this advanced
1:34.8	device is so important.
1:36.6	What is the big deal here?
1:37.6	I mean, we are producing plutonium again.
1:40.2	Why does it matter that we've canceled the ASG?
1:43.8	Well, yes, and we are producing plutonium again,
1:46.0	and so that's no matter what people take out of this,
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