Down Under and deep in space this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

When Apollo 11 gets to the moon, parks will now be the prime receiving station.

Meeting?

We've got the moonwalk.

The people in this place, they know what they're doing?

I believe, sir.

I don't even hope so.

Why'd they pick us?

Turns out, it's the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere.

What's it doing in the middle of a sheet paddock?

That clip was from The Dish, a somewhat fictionalized story of Australia's role in providing

the live television pictures of the first steps on the moon back in 1969.

We'll talk with Glen Nagel of the Canberra Deep Space Communications

Complex, part of the amazing deep space network that still keeps us in touch

with spacecraft throughout the solar system.

Bill Nye wonders if someday we'll watch rocket launches in a town called

Schaboygan, and there's my weekly What's Up visit with Bruce Betts.

Let's get started with the Planetary Society Science and Technology

coordinator Emily Lochuwala.

So Emily, you got some time on somebody else's radio show last week.

I did. There was a pretty exciting thing in the sky

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