More space technology is coming your way this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

NASA has just published Spin Off 2013. It is loaded with

marvelous technologies developed for space, some of which are already making lives

better down here on the home planet.

We'll talk with Daniel Lockney, NASA's Technology Transfer Program Executive.

Bill Nye steps aside this week for a glowing report from the Planetary Society's Director of Advocacy

about the just released House of Representatives proposal for NASA's 2015 budget.

Later Bruce Betts will present another out-of-this-world

celebrity random space fact as we give away a Celestial Telescope.

It begins here and now with Senior Editor Emily Lockwala, who just a few days

ago provided an update on Europe's Comet rendezvous mission.

Rosetta is so close, you can almost taste it. It's getting very close to the comet after a decade of travel. It's just begun the final phase of matching

orbits with this comet by doing a very small rocket burn just to make sure that its rocket

still work well after its long hibernation

and it has to slow down by about a kilometer per second before it finally rendezvous

is with a comment later this year. That will happen when? Remind us.

It'll happen in as the spacecraft slowly creeps up on it.

It's quite different from going into orbit at a planet

where there's gravity at a planet that can grab a spacecraft into orbit.

This comet's so small, it really has practically

negligible gravity. So the spacecraft has to do all the work

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