staying alive as you cross the expanse this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Society, with more of a human adventure across our solar

system and beyond.

We're back with another fascinating expert for you to meet.

This time it's the leader of a company that is working toward keeping

men and women alive and well as they make the long journey to Mars and back, also to the

Moon. It's a big challenge, possibly as big as any other we face if humans are going to reach

the Red Planet. President and CEO Grant Anderson of Paragon Space Development Corporation

will join us shortly.

Ice Cream may not be essential for life support on that mission, but it would be nice.

And it's what you might win in the new What's Up Space Trivia Contest. I don't know if Bruce Betts will ever

forgive me for the torture I'm about to inflict on him. We're back to headlines from

the down lake this week where there is great news about the Insight Mission.

We don't want to become overconfident, but it appears that the long-suffering

mole heat flow probe is finally under the surface of Mars.

NASA and German Aerospace Center engineers have used

the Landers' scoop to help the self-hammering instrument bury itself. Maybe now it can

get a grip and head down the several meters scientists have hoped

for. Godspeed Insight.

With its big Long March 5B rocket back on track, China has laid out a very ambitious schedule of launches to

assemble its big modular space station. The work gets underway next year.

Crew Dragon astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley have settled into life

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