Will Voyager be saved this week on planetary radio? Radio.

Hi everyone, welcome back to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

A lot of people were shocked to learn that the next

NASA budget had no funds to continue the missions of Voyagers 1 and 2. One of those people was

former JPL director Ed Stone. We'll talk to the chief scientist

for the Voyager Interstellar Mission on today's show. Yet another JPL director drops by during

what's up just to make Bruce Betts nervous,

but our boys still manages to give away a couple of solar sale posters.

Speaking of the solar sale, it leads our modest but wholesome review of space news this week.

Cosmos One has successfully reached the Russian Navy Base at Severomorsk, where it will soon be put

in place atop a Volna submarine-launched rocket.

Liftoff is still scheduled for mid-to-late June, with regular updates and background information available at planetary.org.

While you're there you can check out Emily Lockwala's update on Cassini.

While the spacecraft's cameras can't quite make out the individual particles making up Saturn's rings, scientists have now used

its radio transmissions to determine the rings fine structure.

Not surprisingly, there are some surprises.

Shuttle Discovery has been rolled back into the vehicle assembly building for the switch out of external

fuel tanks.

This precautionary move will delay NASA's return to flight plans.

And while it may not exactly require a correction, we do want to add something to last

week's discussion of the solar sale.

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