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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for an episode guide and much more.

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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for an episode guide and much more.

    Tabletops and telescopes: NASA’s RPG and the hunt for habitable worlds

    Tabletops and telescopes: NASA’s RPG and the hunt for habitable worlds

    We explore NASA's first tabletop role-playing game with senior multimedia specialist Christina Mitchell and a new way to find water worlds with Amaury Triaud from the University of Birmingham.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Radiolab helps name a quasi-moon of Venus

    Radiolab helps name a quasi-moon of Venus

    This week on Planetary Radio, Latif Nasser, co-host of Radiolab shares the story behind the naming of Zoozve, a quasi-moon of Venus.

    • 48 min
    Space Policy Edition: Real and Acceptable Reasons for Space Exploration

    Space Policy Edition: Real and Acceptable Reasons for Space Exploration

    Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin discusses his claim that there is a tension between the so-called Real reasons that motivate spaceflight and the prosaic, Acceptable reasons used to justify space exploration within the public sphere.

    • 53 min
    Syzygy science: Discoveries made during total solar eclipses

    Syzygy science: Discoveries made during total solar eclipses

    Planetary Radio marks its last show before the Apr. 8 total solar eclipse with a look back at discoveries made during totality.

    • 57 min
    Eclipse Tips: A guide to safe observing and astrophotography

    Eclipse Tips: A guide to safe observing and astrophotography

    Ron Benner, the President of the American Optometric Association, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy give helpful tips for safely observing the upcoming total solar eclipse in North America.

    • 59 min
    The asteroid hunter

    The asteroid hunter

    Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, joins Planetary Radio to share stories from his new book, The Asteroid Hunter.

    • 56 min

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