Tom Jones says space stinks 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.

Okay, astronaut and author Tom Jones doesn't really say outer space stinks, but it does have a certain

june say qua. And the reason I don't know is that I haven't been

there but Tom has he'll tell us about the distinct aroma of space and his new book

Planetology.

Emily Lachtoala has the week off for the best reason in the universe.

By the time you hear this, her family may have grown by one new baby.

We'll let you know next week though readers of her blog at planetary.org

may be the first to get the news. Bruce Betts is not so encumbered. We'll visit

with him for the first in-person What's Up segment in too long.

He'll tell us about the night sky and more, including how you can win the Space Trivia Contest

and this week's T-shirt. Bill Nye is off so we've reached back in time to

bring you the very first commentary he did for Planetary Radio and you'll hear it in a

minute. The combined operational load-bearing external resistance treadmill

will fly into orbit this coming August.

It has already attracted more attention to space exploration than just about anything short of a new Mars rover.

For those of you around the world who are unaware of an American TV personality named Stephen Colbert, the fake conservative commentator

and host was hoping to hear from NASA that its new International Space Station module

would carry his name. The decision was delivered in person by

astronaut Sunita Williams. The module will be called tranquility, after a certain

tranquility base that gained fame 40 years ago, but Colbert got a heck of a

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