Rocketplanes, Space Yachts and New Space Geeks at SpaceUp!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 13 February 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Space Geeks. |
| 0:05.0 | Join me at the Space Up Unconference this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Matt Kaplan at the Planetary Society. We'll travel on down to San Diego this week. That's |
| 0:25.0 | where ex-core aerospace engineer Jeff Lichordello and Space Tourism President John Spencer |
| 0:30.9 | were hanging out with their fellow geeks. |
| 0:33.8 | We'll get Emily Lockawala's review of that unconference in a moment. |
| 0:37.6 | Bill Nye was also out of town. |
| 0:39.2 | He dropped in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the second White House Science Fair. |
| 0:45.0 | Bill also saw the unveiling of a new electric car right where SpaceX is building new rockets. |
| 0:50.4 | Wow, everyone's out and about this week. I visited Bruce Betts at the end of his first |
| 0:55.0 | intro to astronomy lecture, available for free online. We treated Bruce's live students to our |
| 1:01.3 | what's up segment. Up first is the |
| 1:03.0 | planetary societies science and technology coordinator. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome back Emily. |
| 1:08.0 | I look forward to getting your thoughts about the SpaceUp |
| 1:10.7 | on conference we went to last week, but first, tell us about this blog entry. |
| 1:14.8 | You're looking in on the work of some more amateur astronomers. |
| 1:18.2 | Periodically, it's enjoyable to go look at the outer planets and see what's changed |
| 1:21.6 | on them. You know, we know that Saturn had this great big storm |
| 1:24.0 | and Jupiter had its missing belt for a while. |
| 1:26.3 | And it's not the professional astronomers who keep their eyes |
| 1:29.1 | on what's going on in the changing skies of the outer planets. |
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