A 1200 square meter solar sail this week on planetary radio. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Join me on a tour of Lagarde Incorporated.

This relatively small company believeably claims that it is the world leader

in the creation of inflatable space structures.

We'll explore their Orange County, California headquarters with a congressman and

NASA's chief technologist.

Bill Nye is on the road and has the week off.

I bet he watched last Sunday's eclipse.

I know Emily Lockawala and Bruce Betts enjoyed it.

Let's visit with Emily right now.

Emily, I guess you got to enjoy the eclipse with your daughters.

I did. It was perfectly positioned at the afternoon

while I was grilling outside. We put on our eclipse glasses. My two girls who just happened to be dressed

as fairies for the evening were looking at it and they both saw it. My older one said,

Mommy, the sun looks like a moon and I thought that was pretty cute.

I was actually on my way back from San Diego and had to drive inland at one point to get out of the

thickest part of the marine layer which was perfect because there was enough of

the cloud cover that I could perhaps still somewhat dangerously look right at the sun and what amazed me was

We stopped in a little sort of working-class town north of San Diego

Everybody was out looking at the eclipse taking pictures.

The clerk came out of the liquor store.

It was a real shared opportunity.

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