The Companies that make Space Happen this week on Planetary Radio. Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of a human adventure

across our solar system and beyond. Something different today will stay at

ground level for a couple of conversations about the thousands of small to medium-sized organizations you've never heard of that make space exploration and development possible.

Emily Lachtoal is on vacation this week, but Bill Nye, the Science Guy will join us as usual

in a moment, and we'll have another What's Up conversation with the Planetary Society's Director of Science and Technology,

Bruce Betts. He's got the low down on what may be an especially good meteor shower along

with a new space trivia contest. Bill Nye couldn't get to us via Skype so here he is on his

mobile phone. Bill we have several things to talk about this week and they all have to do

with education in various forms.

Most of it informal.

I thought, I was hoping you could start

with this thing that I just learned about

that the Planetary Society is going to do

called the Steam Team.

Steam team.

For those of you, you everybody, we cannot get away

from the acronym STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math.

The very, very popular along with that

is the acronym STEAM, will you add the letter A for art.

Science, technology, industry, art, and math.

And the science teachers at the National Science Teachers Association were very responsive to this.

They thought it was cool, they were great.

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