Traveling to the Sun with Ulysses 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 of the Planetary Society. For 18 years it has circled the sun

following a lonely path. Now the Ulysses spacecraft is nearing its end. We'll look back with Nigel Angold, Mission Operations Manager

for the European Space Agency. Emily Lachawala will answer another of your questions in this

week's installment of Q&A and she'll get the job done in barely more than

a hundred Martian seconds, while Bruce Betts will help me pick a new name for a Saturn, a Saturn

car that is belonging to a listener. that will be right after we take a

look at the current night sky

bill nigh the science and planetary guy is on vacation this week

we come to you as the american Democratic and Republican parties are finally making

their choices of presidential candidates official.

But how did John McCain and Barack Obama feel about space exploration and development.

Fortunately, both have just issued space policy position papers.

You can read them at planetary.org.

And I hope you know that planetary.org is the place to find what I firmly believe is the best collection point for all news planetary.

Emily's space blog has put up links to some of Don Dixon's newest space art. You may remember that Ace Artist Dixon was

a guest on this show a while back. Emily also provides her critique of Twitter in space, or should I say,

Twitter in space.

Turns out the Phoenix Lander isn't the only probe

using the ultra-brief online tool to provide mission updates.

Ulysses was one of the first space exploration missions to depend on an international partnership.

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