Interview with a Martian this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Our guest this week is Robert Zubrin.

No, not the founder and president of the Mars Society, but a different Robert Zubrin, who

will be born on Mars in 62 years.

This Robert Zubrin will someday write the definitive handbook on becoming a successful

and even wealthy Martian.

Emily Lachtoala shakes things up on the moon in her Q&A segment and Bruce Betts will join me

for our usual what's up look at the night sky including a new space trivia contest with a special prize for one of you.

So we'll head for the Red Planet right after Bill Nye shares some thoughts about heading

back to the moon.

Hey, hey, Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society.

This week, as you may know, the Augustine Commission is going to testify in front of Congress

about their findings, about what NASA should be doing

with its billions of dollars. Well I'm sure that'll be lovely.

Meanwhile, NASA has a couple of spacecraft orbiting the moon.

Among other things, you're going to crash,

L-cross into a crater hoping to see water.

And the reason they're looking for water,

of course it is of great scientific interest.

The surface of the moon is a bit of a time capsule storing everything that's hidden over the last

thousand centuries or so.

But what people are hoping for is they can find water on the moon

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