Making your air and water and water out of moon dust this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan. Face it, you're not going to live on the moon,

or Mars, or anywhere else. If you can't locally manufacture the stuff you need to

breathe and drink. That turns out to be really hard to do. Gerald Sanders leads the

in situ resource utilization or ISRU project for NASA. We'll talk with him about the progress that is being made by many

engineers and scientists. Bill Nye the Science Guy has an invitation to share

with you while Emily Lochuala ponders the dark side of the moon, which isn't really dark of course, but that's another story.

And Bruce Betts meets his match on today's What's Up.

Could this be another opportunity to win yourself a planetary radio t-shirt?

Yes, it could be, if you can sing.

We've got the space headlines at planetary.org, including a chance to send your name to the Moon on the Lunar Reconnaissance

Orbiter.

Also a great new status report on Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers.

Here's Bill Nye.

Bill Nye, the planetary guy here talking to you about another town hall meeting.

We want your opinions about what we should be doing next to explore space.

So this is going to take place on Wednesday, May 7th at Georgia Tech,

the Georgia Institute of Technology,

at the College of Management Building.

It's 800 West Peachtree Street, Northwest in Atlanta.

It's free.

It'll be fun.

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