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Planetary Radio — 572 episodes

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The oldest organic molecules in the known Universe

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Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance

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Space Policy Edition: The policy implications of active SETI

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The Science You’ve Enabled

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Exoplanet enigma: Unpacking the discovery of a "forbidden" planet

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Inspiring the next generation through space education

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The case for saving VERITAS

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Space Policy Edition: SpaceX's Starship vs. the environment, with Eric Roesch

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Adventures at the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference

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Juice mission liftoff: A new era of icy moon exploration begins

11

Under Alien Skies with Phil Plait

12

Yuri’s Night: For all SpaceKind

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Space Policy Edition: The motives behind NASA's billions — Jean Toal Eisen on how Congress funds the final frontier

14

Two Years of Hope: Celebrating the Emirates Mars Mission

15

Volcanic Venus? New insights from vintage data

16

Getting psyched for Psyche

17

Universal Harmonies: Sonifying images for science and accessibility

18

Looking back on Voyager’s 45th Anniversary

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Space Policy Edition: The Tricky Ethics of Space Settlement

20

The Canadian Lunar Rover with Peter Visscher

21

Martian rock collecting: From meteorites to Mars Sample Return

22

Are we alone? The search for alien technosignatures

23

More on Mars’ Watery History

24

Space Policy Edition: The White House's Matt Daniels on the U.S.'s New Cislunar Strategy

25

JWST confirms its first exoplanet

26

Juno Journeys to Jupiter’s Moons

27

Martian Mic Drop

28

Celebrating NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon

29

Space Policy Edition: JPL Director wants "every brain" to have the chance to work in space exploration

30

Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan

31

Planetary Society All-Stars Review the Year in Space

32

Artemis 1 Orion capsule comes home, and the best of Planetary Radio

33

One Last Blast: Author of ‘The Martian’ Andy Weir with JPL Chief Engineer Rob Manning

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Scientist and Hubble Repairman John Grunsfeld

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Space Policy Edition: NASA's Economic Impact with Alex MacDonald and Joshua Drucker

36

A Happy 20th Anniversary for Planetary Radio

37

Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin

38

Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker

39

Space Policy Edition: What the Congressional Midterms Means for Space Science

40

Ann Druyan wishes you a happy Sagan Day

41

Space Policy Edition Bonus: Q&A with Casey Dreier and Bill Nye

42

DART smacked an asteroid! So what’s next in planetary defense?

43

Meet the new Planetary Radio host! (and enjoy a beer with a cosmologist)

44

Eyes on the Sky: Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey

45

Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects

46

Space Policy Edition: The Geopolitics of a Successful SETI Detection

47

Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory looks back

48

Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos, and we meet space image artist and processor Judy Schmidt

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Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?

50

It’s Not Just NASA: Space Agency Leaders at the Artemis 1 Launch Attempt

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Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon

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Space Policy Edition: Mike Gold on Crafting the Artemis Accords

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The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration

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Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth

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A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves

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Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury

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Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on Bringing Change to NASA

58

Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds

59

New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin

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Science from the Moon, and former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back

61

The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide

62

A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity

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Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program

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Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense

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Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space

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Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton

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Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit

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Space Policy Edition: Inside the Planetary Science Decadal Survey Process with Bethany Ehlmann

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Planetary Radio Live in London: The Moons Symphony

70

Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise

71

Life, the Universe and Britney Schmidt

72

Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley

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Space Policy Edition: How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Has Changed Space, with Mariel Borowitz

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Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft

75

The End of Astronauts?

76

Yuri’s Night: Join the party!

77

Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

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Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2023 Budget Request

79

Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant

80

X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf

81

Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson

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Planetary Radio Special Edition: The Voyager Golden Record by Twenty Thousand Hertz

83

Meet the first STEP Grant awardees

84

Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann

85

Space Policy Edition: Why are outer planets missions so expensive?

86

5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS

87

Astrobiologist David Grinspoon on life, the universe and everything

88

Saving the world one telescope at a time: The Shoemaker NEO grant winne

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Space Policy Edition: JWST and the politics of mega-science (with Robert Smith)

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Nobel laureate John Mather: The promise of the James Webb Space Telescope

91

Worlds of snow and ice

92

Curiosity rolls on: Mars Science Laboratory project scientist Ashwin Vasavada

93

We have touched the Sun: The Parker Solar Probe’s triumph

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Space Policy Edition: What We're Watching in 2022

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Return to the Moon: Spacesuits and preparing for splashdown in the Pacific

96

A good year for space: Planetary Society all-stars review 2021

97

Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan

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JWST is ready for launch and amazing science

99

A conversation with the director of “Don’t Look Up”

100

Space Policy Edition: Astronomy Goes Big, with Heidi Hammel

101

Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?

102

Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw

103

The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot

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Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes

105

Space Policy Edition: We're entering a new era of planetary defense (with Lindley Johnson)

106

Sarah Al Amiri and the new UAE mission to the asteroid belt

107

Sally Ride: Revisiting our 2005 conversation

108

Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium

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Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission

110

Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?

111

Space Policy Edition: NASA's Congressional Logjam

112

Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit

113

The Wonderful: a new documentary about the International Space Station

114

The Case for a Return to Enceladus

115

An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap

116

Space Policy Edition: The cultural rituals of space advocacy, with Linda Billings

117

Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not

118

Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch

119

Cassini, Voyager and beyond with Linda Spilker

120

How Perseverance drives itself around Mars

121

Space Policy Edition: Mars via the Nuclear Option

122

Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science

123

Andy Chaikin on Apollo 15 and the lessons of Apollo

124

Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope

125

We’re Going Back to Venus

126

Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope

127

Space Policy Edition: The Pentagon's UFO Report, Featuring Sarah Scoles

128

Finding Life by Looking for Complexity

129

The Pearly Clouds of Mars

130

Amateur Astronomers Saving the World

131

Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating

132

Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2022 Budget Request Says "Yes"

133

Mighty Jupiter Revealed

134

The New Great Space Observatories

135

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung

136

Defenders of Earth on Planetary Radio

137

Space Policy Edition: How Starship at the Moon Brings NASA Closer to Mars

138

Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary

139

A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn

140

Is ‘Oumuamua a Piece of a Pluto-Like Planet? And Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars

141

The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill

142

The First Space Shuttle Pilot: Bob Crippen on the 40th Anniversary of STS-1

143

Space Policy Edition: Biden Names His NASA Administrator

144

NASA’s TESS Exoplanet Mission Finds Over 2,000 Possible New Worlds

145

The Perseverance Rover and a Great First Month on Mars

146

Return From Ryugu: The Hayabusa2 Leader on His Mission’s Success

147

InSight’s Mole: A Martian Science Odyssey

148

Space Policy Edition: SpaceX's Early, Desperate Days (with Eric Berger)

149

Spinoffs: How NASA Technologies Benefit Life on Earth

150

Touchdown! The Sights and Sounds of Perseverance on Mars

151

Planetfest ’21: To Mars and Back Again

152

The Big Book of Mars: Our Obsession with the Red Planet

153

Space Policy Edition: The Big Picture on U.S. Science Funding

154

A Cosmic Odyssey: Decades of Discovery at the Palomar Observatory

155

‘Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been artificial

156

7 More Minutes of Terror: Perseverance Arrives at Mars

157

Space Policy Edition: A Mob at the U.S. Capitol

158

A Symphony for 7 Moons

159

Solar Cruiser: A Giant Sail Prepares for Space

160

Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones

161

Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Might Walk on the Moon

162

What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!

163

Welcoming a New Leader, and China on the Final Frontier

164

Space Policy Edition: Operation Moonglow and the Global Impact of Apollo

165

Observatory Director Francisco Córdova on the Devastating Loss of Arecibo

166

More Moon Water and an Update from Venus on Our 18th Anniversary!

167

Revealing Mars From Above, and Crew Dragon is Go!

168

Space Policy Edition: NASA's Post-Election Landscape

169

A Rogue World Wanders as PlanetVac Heads for the Moon and Mars

170

A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel

171

A Deep Dive into Asteroid Bennu With Dante Lauretta

172

We Have Sampled an Asteroid! And the Search for Life Above Venus

173

Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!

174

Protectors of Earth! (and Other Worlds)

175

Space Policy Edition: Divining Biden's Space Policy with Jeff Foust

176

Exploring the Cosmos With Heidi Hammel and AURA

177

A Fond Farewell: Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla

178

Have We Found Evidence of Life on Venus?

179

Space Policy Edition: The Moon-to-Mars Strategy, with Dr. Scott Pace

180

A Planetary Mystery is Solved, and it’s Bill Nye’s Anniversary!

181

The Sirens of Mars Call to Us

182

Katie Mack and The End of Everything

183

Make Room! Worlds May Crowd Some Habitable Zones

184

Another Ray Gun Heads for Mars. We Hear It Working.

185

Space Policy Edition: Why the SLS is a National Asset, and Why That Matters

186

Crew Dragon Triumphant, and a Planetary Society Founder Remembers

187

Hope Leads the Way to Mars

188

A Mars Mission Begins, a Comet Exits, and the Future of Planetary Science

189

3 Billion Years Ago: Was Mars Alive?

190

To Pluto and Beyond with Alan Stern

191

Space Policy Edition: A Trillion-Dollar Space Economy?

192

Jim Bell Sends New Eyes to Mars

193

LightSail 2: A Year of Solar Sailing

194

Staying Alive in Space

195

Space Policy Edition: NASA’s Gamble Pays Off

196

Crew Dragon Thrills While Mars Chills

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Celebrating 30 Years of Hubble with Astronaut John Grunsfeld

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Crew Dragon Deep Dive with Astronaut Garrett Reisman

199

Looking for Life in Alien Oceans

200

The Crew Dragon Countdown Begins, With Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

201

Space Policy Edition: Our Moral Obligation to Explore Space

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Life on Mars: Joining the Quest with Penny Boston and Jim Green

203

The Royal Astronomical Society at 200

204

NASA Administrator James Bridenstine Returns

205

The Slime Mold and the Universe

206

Space Policy Edition: Our Equinox Space Policy Briefing

207

The Next 10 Years: Continuing our Solar System Tour

208

The Next 10 Years…An Introduction to the Decadal Survey

209

Building Our Future on Mars

210

The Return of Cosmos and Ann Druyan

211

Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2021 Budget Request Brings Billions

212

African Eyes Look to the Cosmos

213

The Search for 100 Earths

214

Life=Matter+Information: Paul Davies and the Demon in the Machine

215

Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It

216

Space Policy Edition: Is the Moon a Stepping-Stone or a Cornerstone for Mars? (with Laura Seward Forczyk)

217

A Great Space Observatory Goes Dark: The Legacy of Spitzer

218

Mighty Jupiter Revealed

219

The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu

220

The MILO Institute: Opening the Solar System for Exploration by All

221

Space Policy Edition: Houston, We Have a Space Force (with Brian Weeden)

222

In the Clean Room With the Mars 2020 Rover

223

Planetary Society All-Stars Look Back at 2019 and Ahead to 2020

224

What’s Next for Mars Exploration?

225

Meet the Planetary Society’s Newest Asteroid Hunters

226

The Creators of The Expanse

227

Space Policy Edition: The Biggest Policy Moments of the Decade (with Marcia Smith)

228

A Toast to Alcohol in Space

229

Seeking the Killer Space App with Space Tango

230

Space Books and Gifts for Space Kids of all Ages

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A Passionate Conversation with Carolyn Porco

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Our Mysterious Sister: Venus

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Space Policy Edition: How a Report Can Move Mountains

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Finding Wonder and Meaning in a Book by Carl Sagan’s Daughter

235

How Long Was Mars Wet?

236

NASA’s Home for the Bleeding Edge: The 2019 NIAC Symposium

237

Space Policy Edition: Happy Fiscal New Year!

238

Nobel Prize Winner Michel Mayor…and More

239

How to Defend Your Planet

240

Ad Astra: The Movie!

241

How to Build a Starship: The 2019 Starship Congress

242

The Unexpected Space Center: Los Alamos National Laboratory

243

Space Policy Edition: Why Apollo Ended (with John Logsdon)

244

A Comet’s Legacy, and a Helicopter is Ready for Mars

245

What Will You Send to the Moon?

246

NASA’s Red Planet Rick and Putting Humans on Mars

247

Reflections of Humanity in a Spacesuit for Moonwalkers

248

Planetary Radio Live at Science Museum Oklahoma

249

Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye at Science Museum Oklahoma

250

Space Policy Edition: The Home Front During Apollo (with Emily Margolis)

251

A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement

252

Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings

253

Apollo 11 and the Woman Who Helped Get It Home

254

We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan

255

Space Policy Edition: Why Apollo Happened (with Roger Launius)

256

LightSail Takes Flight!

257

The News From Saturn-With Linda Spilker

258

Flight by Light: A LightSail 2 Mission Preview

259

Quasars and Quanta: Exploring Einstein’s Quantum Riddle

260

Space Policy Edition: The Soviet Moonshot (with Asif Siddiqi)

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Starchaser: Extraordinary Astronomer Jay Pasachoff

262

Sharing a Passion for Mars at the Humans to Mars Summit

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Talking with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine

264

BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

265

A Last Visit With LightSail 2 at the Cubesat Developers Workshop

266

Planetary Radio Live Defends Planet Earth!

267

Space Policy Edition: Lessons From the Moonshot That Never Was-With Mark Albrecht

268

The Skies of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes

269

Lucy in the Sky With Asteroids

270

The Triumph of a Failed Moon Landing

271

Celebrating Yuri’s Night with Legendary Astronaut Story Musgrave

272

Space Policy Edition: T-minus Five Years and Counting

273

Ice Worlds, Landing on the Moon and Blasting an Asteroid

274

Dunes, Walnut Shells, Alien Impostors and Other Worlds: A Visit with Sarah Hörst

275

Bill Nye and Planetary Radio Live at Extreme STEAM

276

Boosters, Breakthroughs and Budgets: Canada and the US Look Toward Space

277

China on the Final Frontier

278

Space Policy Edition: When a (Space) Cowboy Came to Washington

279

An Israeli Lander Launches Toward the Moon

280

A Fond Farewell to Spirit and Opportunity

281

Watching the Births of Solar Systems

282

The DART Mission: Learning How to Swat Dangerous Asteroids

283

Space Policy Edition: Should the U.S. be in a space race with China?

284

Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life

285

Asteroid Bennu’s Visitor From Earth

286

Space Policy Edition: Shutdown

287

Flying the Skies of Saturn’s Moon Titan

288

New Horizons Flyby: Join the Celebration!

289

A Mission to Earth: OSIRIS-REx

290

Countdown to Ultima: Alan Stern and New Horizons

291

Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8

292

At the Space Settlement Summit With Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden

293

Space Policy Edition: Canada's Uncertain Future in Space (with Kate Howells)

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Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.

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A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight

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We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life

297

Space Policy Edition: After the Midterms—Looking Ahead with Marcia Smith

298

Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher

299

Where Do We Come From? – Exploring the Origins of Life Lab

300

Celebrating Kepler

301

Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun

302

Back to Saturn for Brand New Cassini Science

303

Celebrating Astronomy Day with the Giant Magellan Telescope

304

Space Policy Edition: How NASA Came to Be

305

John Logsdon on the Dawn of the Space Age

306

SpaceX Builds a Big Falcon Rocket

307

Return to Fiery Mercury With BepiColombo

308

Opportunity, Phone Home!

309

Space Policy Edition: Did NASA Ace its Midterms? With Special Guest Louise Prockter

310

Big Science, Big Rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center

311

Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Encounter in Huntsville, Alabama

312

Pluto Occults! Join Us on the Mountain

313

Giving Mysterious Venus the Love (and Science) She Deserves

314

Dark Energy’s Co-Discoverer and the Leader of Chinese Space Science

315

Space Policy Edition: Destination…Mars? Contradictions and Principles

316

Diving Into That Lake on Mars

317

Hayabusa2 Reaches a Dark Diamond in Space

318

An African Observatory Hunts Killer Asteroids

319

Something Old and Something New: Exciting Research on the International Space Station

320

Space Policy Edition: Space Force! With Special Guest Brian Weeden

321

Dwarf Planet Ceres Thrills as a Dying Visitor Closes In

322

It’s Asteroid Week with NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer

323

Kathryn Sullivan, Space Dentistry and More at the International Space Development Conference

324

A Conversation with Freeman Dyson

325

It’s Rocket Science: Testing PlanetVac in the Mojave Desert

326

Space Policy Edition: Space Policy Directive 2—This Time it's Commercial

327

A Sacred Place: The National Air and Space Museum with Ellen Stofan

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Chasing New Horizons to Pluto with Alan Stern and David Grinspoon

329

Why Mars? We’ve Got the Answers

330

Amy Mainzer: Asteroid Hunter

331

Space Policy Edition: A Commercial Future for the Space Station?

332

All Shook Up: The InSight Mission to Mars

333

Planetary Radio Live! – Celebrating Curiosity on Mars

334

Yuri’s Night 2018!

335

Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1

336

Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on what a NASA Administrator (and Deputy) actually does

337

AI, Space, and Humanity’s Future—A Conversation with David Brin

338

A Space Station Crashes to Earth

339

Stephen Hawking: Spaceflight Pioneer!

340

Amateur Astronomers Work To Save Earth From Asteroids!

341

Visiting the Birthplace of PlanetVac

342

Space Policy Edition #23 - Blitzing Congress: Planetary Society volunteers visit Capitol Hill

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Experience A Message From Earth - Inspired by the Voyager Golden Record

344

The Eyes of a New Mars Rover: Mastcam-Z

345

Space Policy Edition Special: The 2019 President’s Budget Request Unveiled

346

A New Congressional Caucus Backs Planetary Science

347

Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak

348

Space Policy Edition #21: Bill Nye and the State of the Union

349

Going to Sea to Sail Through Space: Orion Ocean Recovery Testing

350

Living in Space!

351

It’s a Hard Rain on Titan

352

Mysterious Tabby’s Star, With Tabby Herself

353

Space Policy Edition #20: Looking back on the year in space policy. Also, your questions!

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Looking Back, Looking Forward with the Planetary Society All-Stars

355

Flowing Water on Mars? Not So Much

356

Exploring the Latest Planetary Science Discoveries With Emily Lakdawalla

357

President Trump Sets Course for the Moon

358

A Visitor From the Stars: ‘Oumuamua

359

Space Policy Edition #19: When did the private space age begin? Much earlier than you think.

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Bob Richards of Moon Express

361

Canada Rises…And So Does the Sun

362

The Honorable Adam Schiff: Another Congressional Space Enthusiast

363

Andy Weir’s New Novel Puts a City on the Moon

364

Space Policy Edition #18: Jim Bridenstine vs. the Senate and First Meeting of the National Space Council

365

André Bormanis and Emily Lakdawalla on Life, the Universe and Everything

366

Searching for ET With Pete Worden

367

Pamela Gay and the Image Detective

368

Dawn: Ten Years of Exploration

369

Space Policy Edition #17: The 75th Anniversary of the Rocket Age, with Dr. Michael Neufeld

370

Australia Gets Serious About Space

371

Celebrating Cassini…Live!

372

Long Live Cassini!

373

Science Fiction Greats on Humanity’s Destiny in Space

374

Sailing on the Light of the Sun With Lou Friedman

375

Space Policy Edition #16: NASA's Flagship Missions: Are They Worth It?

376

Planetary Radio Live on the Eve of the Eclipse

377

Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker’s Last Appearance Before the Grand Finale

378

Ed Stone and Forty Years of Voyager in Space

379

Dark Energy Attracts? Astrophysicists Jason Rhodes and Alina Kiessling

380

Space Policy Edition #15 – Congressman Rick Larsen, Could Russia Exit the ISS?

381

An Eye on the Sun (In the Middle of a Lake)

382

Planetary Radio Live! Living on Mars

383

Emily Lakdawalla on the Last Orbits of Cassini

384

20 Years on Mars with Matt Golombek

385

Space Policy Edition #14 – Ice Giants and Ocean Worlds Beckon

386

A Cosmic Voyage with Astronomer Sandra Faber

387

Happy Asteroid Day!

388

Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!

389

Julie Webster and the Art of Spacecraft Endurance

390

Spectacular Jupiter!

391

Space Policy Edition #13 – The 2018 Budget Proposal and Is Mars Exploration in Retrograde?

392

Buzz Aldrin and Other Martians

393

Human Spaceflight: Coming Back to America

394

NASA Leaders on Getting Humans to Mars

395

Visiting Worlds Fantastic with Bonnie Buratti

396

Space Policy Edition #12 – Is Space Policy Stagnant? With Special Guest Marcia Smith

397

Be There! The Great American Eclipse

398

Bill Nye Saves the World…With Space

399

McDonald Observatory and the Quest for Dark Energy

400

Aerospace Corporation President and CEO Steve Isakowitz

401

Space Policy Edition #11 – Big Science and a Skinny Budget

402

Mars’ Atmosphere…Lost in Space!

403

Nancy Atkinson’s Incredible Stories from Space

404

Ready for Space: LightSail 2 Update

405

The Great American Eclipse—Be Part of It!

406

Hope for Pluto—Should We Re-Redefine Planets?

407

Space Policy Edition #10 - Special Guest Laura Delgado Lopez, SpaceX to the Moon, looming budget cuts

408

The Worlds of TRAPPIST-1

409

Planetary Radio Live: Near Earth Objects—The Killer Asteroid Threat

410

Nazis in Space? Rod Pyle’s Amazing Stories of the Space Age

411

Earth Microbes! Welcome to Mars

412

Space Policy Edition #9 – Congress Plots New Space Legislation Amid Trump’s Tumultuous First Two Weeks

413

The Final Countdown at Saturn

414

Ice, Snow and Lava: Exploring Antarctica’s Mount Erebus

415

Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Leaves NASA

416

Ben Miller Says The Aliens are Coming!

417

Space Policy Edition #8 - A Transition "Trumpdate", 2016 in Review, and Answering Your Questions

418

A Little Rocket Company Shoots for the Moon

419

Marvelous Martian MAVEN

420

Art That Captures the Beauty and Science of Space

421

A Giant Telescope and Remembering John Glenn

422

Running Before the Sun: Astronomer Jay Pasachoff

423

Space Policy Edition #7 - The Trump Administration: What Can We Expect for Space?

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Leading the Search: Bill Diamond of the SETI Institute

425

To Mars! With National Geographic

426

Pluto and Titan and Iran, Oh My!

427

Inside Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

428

Space Policy Edition #6: Election 2016! Where Do Clinton and Trump Stand on Space?

429

Matt Taylor Rocks Rosetta

430

Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto

431

Charley Kohlhase and the Greatest Voyage

432

Trekkin’ Across the Universe With Andrew Fazekas

433

Space Policy Edition #5: The U.S. Senate takes on the politics of Mars

434

Farewell Rosetta!

435

Rocket Road Trip!

436

Cassini at Saturn: The Final Year

437

OSIRIS-REx: The Voyage to Bennu Begins, With Dante Lauretta

438

Spinoffs! Sharing NASA Technology

439

Space Policy Edition #4: Near Earth Asteroids—Why we go, how we find them, and maybe mine them

440

The Pale Red Dot: A Planet Called Proxima b

441

Could the Soviet Union Have Won the Space Race?

442

Sailing the Canyons of Titan

443

Subcontractors: Making Space Happen

444

Space Policy Edition #3: Plutonium-238, Europa via SLS, Cost of the Next Mars Rover Rises

445

Interstellar Dreams Turn Real

446

Anatomy of a Rover—Getting Down to Mars

447

The Eagle Has Landed: Remembering Neil Armstrong

448

Juno Reaches Jupiter!

449

Fighting for Space: Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

450

Space Policy Edition #2: Why Juno? Why Jupiter? Why Now?

451

Planetary Radio Extra: Shining a Million Watt Flashlight on an Asteroid

452

Countdown to Jupiter

453

OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu

454

JunoCam, The People’s Jupiter Camera

455

Chris McKay, Larry Niven and Andy Weir at the Contact Conference

456

Space Policy Edition #1: How We Got Here: Human Spaceflight at the End of the Obama Era

457

Getting Humans to Mars

458

Big Test for LightSail2

459

NASA Science Leader John Grunsfeld

460

Dream Chaser: The Return of the Spaceplane

461

At Space Symposium with the Leader of the European Space Agency

462

A Death Valley Conversation About Life, The Universe and Everything With Tyler Nordgren and Jill Tarter

463

A Death Valley Conversation About Life, The Universe and Everything

464

Exploring Europa and Mining Asteroids at Yuri’s Night

465

Celebrating Yuri’s Night 2016 with Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

466

Celebrating Yuri’s Night 2016 With Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

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Michel Mayor, Discoverer of the First Extrasolar World

468

Ashwin Vasavada, Leader of Scientists Roving Mars

469

Roving Across Mars With Ashwin Vasavada

470

Planetary Radio Live: All These Worlds

471

Neil Gehrels and WFIRST—A Space Telescope for the 2020s

472

HERA Heroine Julielynn Wong and Printing Medical Tools in Deep Space

473

Interstellar Dreams: Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora"

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Interstellar Dreams: Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”

475

Planetary Radio Extra--NASA's 2017 Budget Proposal

476

Exploring Saturn With Cassini

477

Planetary Radio Extra: Our Space Policy Experts Analyze NASA's Proposed 2017 Budget

478

Zero-G With OK Go!

479

Planetary Radio Extra: LightSail Update

480

Planet 9 From Outer Space!

481

NASA’s New Planetary Defense Office

482

Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?

483

Marc Rayman’s Dawn Mission Update

484

Master of the Moon Rocks: NASA Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin

485

Ad Astra Builds "The Martian's" Rocket Engine

486

Planetary Radio Extra: Ad Astra Rocket Company Audio Tour

487

Planetary Radio Extra: Planetary Society Experts 2015 Review

488

2015: A Great Year for Space Exploration

489

Congressman John Culberson on a Good Day for Space

490

Planetary Radio Extra: Casey Dreier on the 2016 NASA Budget

491

Planetary Deep Drill: Join the Desert Field Test

492

Field Test: Planetary Deep Drill

493

12/7/15 Planetary Radio: A Journey To Space

494

A Journey to Space

495

A Tiny Explorer Called Twinkle

496

Movers and Shakers at SpaceCom Expo

497

Solar System Revelations, and the World’s Biggest Telescope Threatened?

498

From Mars to the Stars With Lou Friedman

499

From Mars to the Stars With Lou Friedman

500

A 35th Anniversary Party With Neil Tyson!

501

A Conversation With Andy Weir of "The Martian"

502

A Conversation with Andy Weir of “The Martian”

503

Pluto Amazes!

504

Big Rockets and Little LightSails

505

10/5/15 Planetary Radio: Imaging a Hot, Young Jupiter

506

Imaging Hot Young Jupiters

507

Humans Orbiting Mars!

508

Zibi Turtle and Exploring the Ice Giants

509

Zibi Turtle and a Mission to the Ice Giants

510

OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu

511

Flying High on SOFIA

512

Zooming In On Mars With Mastcam-Z

513

The Right Site: Choosing A Landing Spot on Mars

514

Planetary Radio Extra: Checking in on NASA's Budget with the Planetary Society's Director of Advocacy Casey Dreier

515

Living Under the Sea With NASA Aquanaut David Coan

516

A New Era For SETI Research—More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

517

A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

518

Ann Druyan and the Breakthrough SETI Initiatives

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Ann Druyan and the Breakthrough Initiatives for SETI

520

The Quest for Longitude, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

521

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude

522

7/20/15: Planetary Radio Live at the New Horizons Pluto Encounter

523

7/13/15: A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b

524

7/6/15: Emily Lakdawalla’s Pluto Preview

525

6/29/15: Saving the Planet: Voices From the Planetary Defense Conference

526

6/22/15: Exploring the Seas of Earth and Other Worlds

527

Planetary Radio Live at the New Horizons Pluto Encounter

528

A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b

529

Emily Lakdawalla’s Pluto Preview

530

Saving the Planet: Voices From the Planetary Defense Conference

531

Exploring the Seas of Earth and Other Worlds

532

LightSail Triumphant! A Mission Press Conference

533

Cassini Update AND LightSail Spreads its Wings!

534

Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars

535

The Launch of LightSail

536

Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman

537

Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto

538

Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury

539

Countdown to LightSail: An Update

540

Saving the Planet at the Planetary Defense Conference

541

Rob Manning and Landing on Mars

542

Humans Orbiting Mars: Report on the Workshop

543

Robert Bigelow and His Expandable Space Habs

544

Big News From Little Worlds

545

Leaving Behind a Life on Mars—Former Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger

546

Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo

547

Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”

548

Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid

549

Found! Beagle 2 on Mars

550

Year of the Icy Worlds

551

Planetary Radio Extra: A Deep Dive into the New NASA Budget—A New Mission to Europa, But the End of Opportunity?

552

Tales From a 4 Billion Year Old Piece of Mars...On Earth

553

LightSail Prepares to Take Flight

554

A Recipe for a Small Planet

555

Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope

556

The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier

557

2014: The Year in Space

558

Where Did The Air Go? Bruce Jakosky on the MAVEN Mars Mission

559

Sara Seager and the Search for Earth’s Twin

560

Orion Launches Into History

561

Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar

562

2014: The Year We Landed on a Comet

563

Cassini Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker

564

Digging Deep With Kris Zacny and the Planetary Deep Drill

565

The SpaceShipTwo and Antares Disasters: Special Coverage With John Logsdon

566

A MESSENGER From Mercury—Principal Investigator Sean Solomon Returns

567

Ancient Water Was Here Before the Sun

568

Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds

569

Planetary Radio Live! We See Thee Rise: The Canadian Space Program

570

A Conversation With Congressman Lamar Smith

571

Dr. Bell Goes to Washington

572

Miguel Alcubierre, Inventor of Warp Drive?