Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman.”

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0:00.0	A portrait of the scientist as a young woman, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:11.3	Welcome.
0:12.3	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:17.4	system and beyond.
0:19.7	With a tip of the Space Helmet to James Joyce, that opening line is the title of a great
0:25.5	new memoir about the making of a scientist and leader.
0:29.9	The last met Lindy Elkins-Tanton in our May 4 episode when I suited up for a clean
0:35.2	room visit with the psyche spacecraft.
0:38.2	Lindy is principal investigator for that first ever mission to a metal asteroid.
0:42.9	I told her at the time how much I loved her new book and how much I looked forward
0:48.0	to talking with her about it.
0:50.1	Stay tuned for some dramatic surprises.
0:53.8	And you'll want to stay tuned even longer for a chance to win the book when Bruce Betts
0:58.2	arrives with the new Space Trivia contest.
1:01.2	Bruce also has a rare cosmic lineup for us to celebrate.
1:06.4	See the image that leads the June 10 edition of the downlink?
1:10.7	You might be forgiven for thinking a spacecraft had landed on the Little Prince's B612 asteroid.
1:17.6	It's actually a fisheye selfie taken by that Mars Exploring Pioneer Pathfinder back in
1:24.2	1997.
1:25.2	Yeah, 25 years ago.
1:28.2	Pathfinder and its sojourner rover are also featured on the cover of the June Solstice issue
1:34.7	of the Planetary Report, our great magazine, that you can read for free at planetary.org,
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