George Allery Hale built the largest telescopes in the world, leading to the greatest discovery since Galileo and Copernicus.

It is a story filled with obsession, defeat, and breathtaking triumph.

This is the dramatic story of America's first journey into space.

The Journey to Palomar this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone welcome to public radio's travel show that takes you to the

final frontier. I'm at Kaplan. We journey to Palomar this week for the premiere of a new PBS

documentary about George Ellery Hale and his telescopes that stun the world.

We'll sit down with filmmakers Robin and Todd Mason right

underneath the 200-inch Hale Telescope. It rained supreme for decades, advancing

science as much as any other instrument ever created.

Later we'll check in with Emily for another out of this world, did I say that,

Q&A, and stick around to hear how you can enter our sixth anniversary contest when we talk about

what's up in the night sky with Bruce Vets.

Here's Bill Nye.

Hey, Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of Planetary Society.

Greetings everyone on Earth.

Once again today, I'd like to just review what's going on on Mars.

The Phoenix Lander, which you know, can't Rove, it can't drive around and it can't get its panels to point toward the sun.

And not only that, it's up in the Arctic on Mars.

It's cold. Crazy cold.

Minus 96 Celsius.

It's like minus 140 something Fahrenheit.

And that's at night.

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