Yuri's Night, 26. This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first

human to reach space. 65 years later, we celebrated that milestone at Griffith Observatory in

Los Angeles. Throughout this episode, you'll hear from educators, engineers, and space explorers,

all of whom share some common ideas.

We talk about what we can do in space to inspire that next generation,

and how seeing the Earth from space changes our perspectives about humanity and our future.

First, we'll hear from Laura Tomlin, who's the CEO of Space for Teachers.

She talks about inspiring

the next generation through hands-on microgravity research projects that put real science

in the hands of students and teachers. Then robotics engineer, Kayland Carpenter, from NASA's

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, walks us through some amazing tools and robots. He's helping to build that are going to be exploring the moon and beyond.

Software engineer David Hernandez from Blue Origin was working at the Club for the Future

Booth, an organization dedicated to getting the next generation excited about space.

Research scientist Robert Green, also from JPL, talked about the invention of imaging spectroscopy and what that can teach us about the worlds around us.

Later I caught up with aerospace engineer Andy Sedwani, who flew to space aboard Virgin Galactic.

He shared what it felt like to see the earth from above and reflected on what the

Artemis 2 astronauts must have experienced. Then we'll transition to the main stage at

Yuri's night. First we'll hear from cinematographer and polar explorer Janica Mickelson. She's

Norway's first astronaut. She'll tell us why we need storytellers in space just as much as scientists

and tell the story of her historic polar orbit mission. Space philosopher Frank White,

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