Brace yourselves, we've got Zubran and he's mad this week on planetary radio. I everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the

final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. We talked to his 22nd century alter ego last week.

This time Robert Zubrin is very much in the here and now. You'll hear what the head of the Mars Society and

author of the case for Mars has to say about getting people to the red planet soon,

really soon. Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, is pretty darned-enthused about an

inflatable space module that might go to the International Space Station, while Emily

Lachowala figures out why the landing space shuttle rattles windows and nerves not once but twice.

Then there's our friend Bruce Betts who is on the history channel this week.

He'll give you another chance to win the universe in

our what's up segment so much news that we don't have time for better read Emily's

blog at planetary.org here's's Bill. Hey, Bill and I, the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary

Society, and this week I am excited about things that

inflate.

inflate. So, Robert Bigelow, who is a hotel owner in Las Vegas

has had this company for many years and he proposes that we make

spacecraft that inflate. These would be balloons in space and he's tested a few of them.

NASA rejected him back in the 1990s but he tested a few of them. NASA rejected him back in the 1990s,

but he tested a few of them on some Russian rockets,

sent up a few living things,

it worked okay.

In fact, he claims that his inflatable spacecraft leak less than the International Space Station itself.

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