A look back at staying in shape in space this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Every once in a very long while, planetary I'm Ad Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Every once in a very long while, planetary radio needs to take a break.

This is one of those weeks.

Don't get me wrong.

We've got brand new visits with Emily Lachto-Wala, Bill Nye, and Bruce Betts, but I decided to go back three and a half years

for this week's main interview segment. That's when I talked to astronaut Clay Anderson.

He had just spent five months floating around the

International Space Station. Here's your chance to hear that particularly

enjoyable conversation once again. Next week we'll be back with a brand new visit to the Vesta Fiesta, something Bill

will tell you more about after we talk with Emily Lautuwala, the Planetary Society's Science

and Technology Coordinator.

So Emily, I'd like to start if we can with opportunities steady progress toward that

big crater endeavor.

You know what it reminds me of is Luke Skywalker's pilot colleague approaching that spot on the death star and he says

Almost there, almost there. It's hard to believe that we really are almost there and

you know the the hills on Endeavor's

rim have stayed stubbornly below the horizon for a really long time but all of a

sudden in the last month they have been popping up and the views are just

getting more and more spectacular every day.

I don't, it's been such a long time since I have been checking opportunities images every day, sometimes twice a day, to see if new pictures have come down from Mars and if that Vista has just gotten taller.

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