Congressman Adam Schiff, Space Geek, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

The Honorable Adam Schiff joins us to talk about his fascination with space.

He'll also give us his vision for the future of NASA and

we'll talk about commercial space development and space is an opening for

bipartisan collaboration in the United States.

Did you hear about our

interstellar visitor?

The Fast Moving Rock dominates Bruce Betts attention in this week's

What's Up segment.

Planetary Society Digital Editor Jason Davis is back from a segment. of Tucson. The work of that facility is an essential step in the creation of what

will soon become the largest and most powerful telescope on planet Earth.

Jason, welcome back to the show. I want to start by saying how intensely envious I am because I would

love to go to that lab at the University of Arizona and see what you saw. Tell us what you saw.

Matt, you're always welcome here in Tucson.

My door is open.

Hi.

Anyway.

This was the fifth mirror being cast for the giant Magellan telescope. They had just started the casting

process the weekend before and they spin cast these things so they essentially build the mirror

in a giant oven and then spin the oven and as the glass melts it kind of

flattens out into the parabolic shape that you need for the telescope mirror.

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