Remembering Neil and a ray gun on Mars this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong, one of the first two humans to set foot on another world.

I'll talk about his legacy with Emily Lochuola and Bill Nye in a moment.

By the way, my What's Up conversation with Bruce Betts later today was recorded shortly

before we learned of Meals passing. We'll also talk with Roger Wines, principal investigator for Kim Cam on Curiosity, the Mars Science

Laboratory rover.

The powerful laser-based instrument is zapping rocks and gathering great data on the red planet. Here are Emily and Bill.

Folks, thank you for joining me for this little special approach here and giving up

your regular segment so that we can pay tribute to this true hero, the first man to walk on the moon.

Bill, I know you are old enough like me to actually remember watching this moment.

Oh yeah, I was on my knees in the family living room to try to get as close as possible to the black and white television.

And the images, if you look at them even now, are quite blurry but it had this sense I mean I was a

kid there was this intense optimism in those days and we had this sense that well of

course he's going to pull it well of course he's going to pull it off. Of course it's going to work well.

And when he uttered his words, one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind, everybody was really okay we got that over with now

let's see what's it like on the moon let's see what it's like Emily you are

part of the following generation you don't have the direct memory of this.

You know it certainly by reputation though. What has always been your impression of this

historic time in human history?

Well you know I have to say that I didn't really appreciate how historic and important and world-changing

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