Planetary Society All-Stars Look Back at 2019 and Ahead to 2020
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Happy new year in space! Editorial Director Jason Davis, Chief Advocate Casey Dreier and Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla join Mat Kaplan for a review of 2019’s biggest news from the final frontier. Our experts then turn to the promise of 2020 for Mars exploration, humans in space and much more. The theme continues as Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts adds his highlights in a special What’s Up segment. Got a great joke that combines space and the new year? You might win this week’s contest! Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0101-2020-looking-back-looking-forward.html
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| 0:00.0 | Our all stars review 2019 and predict a great new year in space this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure |
| 0:16.7 | across our Solar System and beyond. |
| 0:19.6 | Join me for a nice long look back over the year just past and an exciting view of what's |
| 0:25.3 | ahead on the final frontier the Planetary Society's best and brightest will share |
| 0:30.4 | their greatest hits and hopes. |
| 0:32.6 | Editorial Director Jason Davis takes a break this week from the downlink, |
| 0:36.9 | but he has joined a panel that includes our chief advocate, Casey Dreyer, |
| 0:41.2 | and Emily Lockawala with her new title of Solar System Specialist. |
| 0:46.4 | Stick around for What's Up and you'll hear Bruce Betts nominations for the best of 2019 and |
| 0:51.1 | 2020. |
| 0:52.1 | Bruce also offers a special challenge in this week's space trivia |
| 0:56.2 | contest. I sat down with Jason, Casey and Emily back on December 21st so that I could catch all of them before anyone started a vacation. |
| 1:06.0 | The only thing that has changed since then was the less than 100% successful first flight of |
| 1:11.9 | Boeing's CST 100 commercial crew vehicle. |
| 1:16.3 | You may have heard on last week's show that a timer error kept it from a planned rendezvous |
| 1:20.9 | with the International Space Station. |
| 1:23.5 | But the mission otherwise went very well. |
| 1:26.0 | Boeing announced on December 30 that the capsule returned to Earth in excellent shape. |
| 1:31.5 | With that, we're ready to welcome my colleagues. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey everybody, happy holidays. Well, we're a little late for that, but happy new year. I mean, we're |
| 1:38.8 | going to be looking forward at this year that has just begun. |
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