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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Eagle Has Landed: Remembering Neil Armstrong

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the first moon landing with the reprise of a conversation with author and NBC space reporter Jay Barbree about his trusted friend Neil Armstrong.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Remembering Neil Armstrong this week on Planetary Radio.

0:07.0

Welcome, I'm A Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure

0:17.1

across our solar system and beyond. Happy 47th anniversary everyone.

0:22.4

That's how long it has been since Neil Arne. Happy 47th anniversary everyone.

0:23.0

That's how long it has been since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.

0:29.0

We'll look back on that great accomplishment by returning to a few minutes from a visit with long time

0:35.3

NBC space reporter Jay Barbry. Jay was a trusted friend who worked with Neil to create

0:41.6

Neil Armstrong life of flight.

0:44.0

Planetary Society digital editor Jason Davis steps outside his usual beat

0:49.0

to report on NASA's next big rover that will head for Mars. The agency provided an

0:54.9

exciting preview in a media briefing last week. Bill Nye wanted to join us, but

0:59.9

the internet service from the northern slopes of Greenland is pretty spotty. the Coring. But Bruce Betts is here, as always, with one of the cleverest space trivia questions

1:15.5

I've heard in a while. Senior editor Emily Loch Duwala is ready right now to take us to Pluto

1:21.2

and beyond. Emily, welcome back from that well-earned vacation right after Juno reached Jupiter, of course,

1:27.6

on last week's show. We talked a great deal about that.

1:30.9

I guess we should talk about this piece that you originally wrote for Sky and Telescope magazine, which is now a brand

1:37.4

new blog entry at planetary.org. Tell us about this.

1:41.0

Well, this piece was sparked by my frustration with the remarks of some of the

1:46.0

NASA officials at the really exciting flyby of Pluto by New Horizons last summer.

1:52.8

A lot of people were saying things like, you know,

1:54.8

by exploring Pluto, we've explored everything in the solar system.

1:58.2

There's no terror incognita left to the solar system anymore.

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