Stardust-NExT Encounters Comet Tempel 1
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Star Dust swings by another comet this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Ad Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It was just a few months ago that |
| 0:25.1 | planetary scientist Jessica Sunshine joined us to talk about the last comet |
| 0:30.2 | encounter by a spacecraft. Now she's back with the story of yet another, |
| 0:35.0 | the Stardust next missions fly by of Comet Temple 1 |
| 0:39.0 | on Valentine's Day, February 14. |
| 0:42.0 | What a cosmic dance this has been. on Emily Lockawala. That's why we won't be hearing Emily's usual Planetary Society blog |
| 0:55.1 | update this week. We will hear from Bruce Betts, though. The Society's |
| 0:59.7 | director of projects will provide his usual rundown of the way up. |
| 1:04.3 | And we've got yet another space trivia contest for you with a very cool new prize. |
| 1:09.2 | We'll go now to a special report from Bill Nye, the Executive Director of the Planetary Society, was at the |
| 1:15.3 | Kennedy Space Center on the 24th of February. |
| 1:18.4 | It was a beautiful day to launch a space shuttle, and that's exactly what happened. Of course I wish it had happened last November |
| 1:26.2 | when I was on the Cape for several aborted countdowns. You know that I'm incredibly envious because there you were watching the launch that should have been mine. |
| 1:36.8 | You did a great job with it. |
| 1:38.8 | This is Shuttle Transport System, STS 133, launched last week and was spectacular. |
| 1:45.5 | I happened to be in Orlando, Florida for National Engineers Week, which Disney and |
| 1:51.6 | Underwriters Laboratories help sponsor. |
| 1:53.8 | It was big fun. |
| 1:54.8 | I got the crowd excited about becoming engineers, I hope. |
| 1:57.7 | But then we went out, I went out to the launch pad. |
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