Decades revealing Mars from overhead and Crew Dragon highlights this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure

across our solar system and beyond. We're minutes away from a great

conversation with the Project Scientists for two pioneering Mars missions,

Jeffrey Plout and Richard Zurek will tell us how Mars Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance

Orbiter have revealed the Red Planet and have enabled missions and discoveries that followed. First though, at the top of our news, is the brilliant success of the first Crew Dragon Oper operational mission that has delivered three NASA astronauts

and one from Jackson, the Japanese Space Agency, to the International Space Station.

What you're about to hear is condensed from roughly the first 29 hours of that

mission beginning with the Sunday November 15 launch of Crew Dragon Resilience atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.

3, 2, 1, 0. Ignition. And resilience

rises when we explore as one for all.

launch escape system is disarmed. And SpaceX copies.

And Lee are the words we like to hear, a nominal orbit insertion.

That's right, John, nominal orbit insertion, as we mentioned, stage two, and I believe we've had a touchdown on the drone ship.

We've got stage one, has touched down on the drone ship. We've got stage one has touched down on the drone ship in the

Atlantic Ocean.

Base six, this is Dragon on the big loop. Six decimal six, 4.400, hatches open. We copy. Hatch open, great to hear. And as you can see they do have that

hatch open now. They called down that came right at 12.02 a.m. Central time.

And there they are first across the hatch and my

Hopkins and here is Victor Glover. are first across the hatch, Mike Hopkins.

And here is Victor Glover.

He heard the crew here, the team here in Mission Control

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