The MILO Institute: Opening the Solar System for Exploration by All
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Planetary scientist and bestselling author Jim Bell is joined by space entrepreneur Lon Levin to tell us about the MILO Institute, a new collaboration by Arizona State University, Lockheed Martin and other organizations that hopes to make robotic exploration of our solar system much more accessible. Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla takes us to the newly-discovered habitable zone world that’s a mere 100 light years from Earth. What’s Up becomes the new home for space jokes! Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0115-2020-jim-bell-lon-levin-milo.html
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| 0:00.0 | A new way to explore the solar system this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:15.2 | solar system and beyond. Cost and lack of experience have generally put |
| 0:20.7 | planetary science missions out of reach for all but the wealthiest nations and space agencies. |
| 0:27.0 | That's changing and we'll learn today about a new effort that promises to accelerate this change, putting participation in missions |
| 0:35.9 | within reach of universities and other institutions around the world. |
| 0:40.9 | Two founders of the Milo Institute, planetary scientist Jim Bell and space entrepreneur |
| 0:46.4 | Lon Levin will be my guess. Earth has a newly discovered sister, just a hundred light |
| 0:52.2 | years distant. We'll hear about this |
| 0:54.1 | world from Emily Loch Wale in moments and we'll wrap this week's show with |
| 0:58.5 | your jokes about space and the new year as Bruce Betts guides us through What's Up. |
| 1:05.0 | Did you know that I write a monthly planetary radio newsletter? |
| 1:08.0 | I have a lot of fun with it, taking readers behind the scenes of the show, |
| 1:12.0 | and it has become one of the planetary |
| 1:14.4 | society's most popular mailings. The next edition comes out on Friday |
| 1:19.1 | January 24. You can sign up at planetary.org |
| 1:23.4 | slash radio. |
| 1:25.0 | Here's a sampling of space headlines from the latest edition of the |
| 1:29.2 | Downlink, the Planetary Society's weekly digest presented by our editorial director, Jason Davis. |
| 1:36.3 | The first ever core stage of NASA's giant space launch system rocket is ready for shipping |
| 1:42.3 | by barge from Louisiana to Mississippi, |
| 1:45.0 | where it will be installed in a giant test stand and fired before heading to Florida. |
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