What Will You Send to the Moon?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Astrobotic is one of several companies that are building small, robotic landers to take commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon. With a new contract from NASA to support his company’s work, CEO John Thornton looks forward to touching down in 2021. Senior editor Emily Lakdawalla can’t wait for the Europa Clipper to reach Europa, one of Jupiter’s ocean moons. Who doesn’t want more cow bell? Chief scientist Bruce Betts gets his share as he helps us explore the current night sky in What’s Up. Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0828-2019-john-thornton-astrobotic.html
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| 0:00.0 | What will you send to the moon this week on planetary radio? |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:14.6 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:16.7 | Astrobatic is one of several companies that are at the threshold of Earth's |
| 0:21.9 | only natural satellite. |
| 0:24.3 | CEO John Thornton will join me to talk about his plans |
| 0:28.0 | and the big boost they just got from NASA. |
| 0:31.0 | Everyone who has been anxiously waiting to hear a cow bell on our show about the |
| 0:36.5 | Cosmos is about to be rewarded. Stick around for What's Up with Bruce and you |
| 0:41.2 | might also be rewarded with a planetary radio |
| 0:43.9 | t-shirt. A lot of you have also been patiently waiting to hear senior editor |
| 0:48.4 | Emily Loch Duwala's return, wait no longer. |
| 0:51.6 | Emily it has been much too long. I welcome you back to planetary radio and I hope we can get back to talking |
| 0:57.6 | semi-regularly here. |
| 0:59.4 | Well there's certainly no lack of things to talk about. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, well and you talk about them as well |
| 1:04.4 | with help from a lot of other people |
| 1:05.9 | in the planetary report. |
| 1:07.8 | And we'll be talking to you about the new issue of that coming out very soon. |
| 1:11.8 | For now, well, it was just a few days ago on the 19th of August that we heard |
| 1:17.4 | from JPL and NASA that the Europa Clipper Mission got another go-ahead, that grand mission out to examine that |
| 1:28.0 | moon of Jupiter. |
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