A party for Voyager's 45th, 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.

Join me at the Jet Propulsion Lab for a celebration of what is almost certainly the most popular

Planetary Science mission of all time.

And stick around for another very special conversation with a person who served as creative

director for the Voyager Golden Record, the great Andruian.

We'll wrap up today's bonus length episode with what's up, and the very cool Voyager

prizes, Bruce Betz and I, will make available to the winner of a new space trivia contest.

As this episode of our show is published, I may or may not still be on Florida's space

coast.

It all depends on whether that mighty new rocket, the space launch system, or SLS, launched

during its first two-hour window on the morning of August 29th.

I sure hope so, but I'm producing this show a couple of days before the 29th, so that

I can jump on a plane to the Kennedy Space Center.

A very knowledgeable former NASA friend gives the Artemis-1 mission a 40% chance of lift

off during the first opportunity, which sounds about right.

I'll stick around for the second attempt on Friday, September 2nd, if needed.

Check out the August 26th edition of the Downlink, the Planetary Society's free weekly newsletter

for links to our great coverage.

Speaking of getting the first woman and the next man to the moon, as NASA likes to say,

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