Remembering Ray, this week on Planetary Radio.

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

I'm Matt Kaplan at the Planetary Society.

Gray Bradbury threaded in and out of my life for many, many years.

It began with reading his short stories when I was a kid.

Then I began running into Ray, but the best may have come when I began sharing him with his

fans through this show and other media.

Today we'll look back through the eyes of others who loved him and we'll hear a bit of the 83rd birthday party

the Planetary Society threw for Ray back in 2003. We'll begin after we hear from

Emily Lochuwala and Bill Nye. Emily Skype is acting strangely so from Emily

Skype is acting strangely so I've got you on well it's still a telephone

connection via Skype tell us what's going on I mean first of all something that may not be

covered at least by yourself in the

blog a lot but although you have at least one entry from Jay Passacoff was the

Venus Transit. This event you know I'm sad that I haven't had time to write

everything up but i took my

daughters up to griffith observatory to watch the event

uh... there were a huge number of astronomers out there with telescopes i learned actually

that probably half of them were uh were observatory staff with their own

telescope.

And one of them was a huge fan of the blog and so he was delighted to see me as I was to see

him.

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