Planetary Radio
Planetary Radio is the weekly adventure on the final frontier produced by the Planetary Society and it's CEO, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Listen to host Mat Kaplan's conversations with the scientists, engineers, dreamers and leaders at the forefront of space exploration. You'll also hear our regular segments with Bill, "Planetary Evangelist" Emily Lakdawalla, and Director of Science and Technology Bruce Betts. Enter the weekly space trivia contest for your chance to win out-of-this-world prizes!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 589
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2023
Ad Astra: The Movie!
Brad Pitt sets out across the solar system to save Earth in the new space epic.
00:51:06 |
Wed 25 Sep 2019
How to Build a Starship: The 2019 Starship Congress
The biannual Starship Congress attracts starry-eyed believers in humankind’s destiny among the stars.
01:07:46 |
Wed 18 Sep 2019
The Unexpected Space Center: Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico gave the Voyager spacecraft their power sources, is building nuclear generators for future Martians, and accidentally invented the field of High Energ…
00:49:01 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Space Policy Edition: Why Apollo Ended (with John Logsdon)
As NASA struggles to return humans to the Moon by 2024, it's worth asking: why did it stop in the first place?
01:49:14 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
A Comet’s Legacy, and a Helicopter is Ready for Mars
Update on the Mars Helicopter, and a top-level review of the amazing science sent home from comet 67P by Rosetta.
01:01:12 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
What Will You Send to the Moon?
Astrobotic is one of several companies that are building small, robotic landers to take commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon.
00:44:21 |
Wed 28 Aug 2019
NASA’s Red Planet Rick and Putting Humans on Mars
Rick Davis is the perfect person to co-lead NASA’s Mars Human Landing Sites Study
01:04:20 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Reflections of Humanity in a Spacesuit for Moonwalkers
Host Mat Kaplan in a long and fascinating conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
01:07:41 |
Wed 14 Aug 2019
Planetary Radio Live at Science Museum Oklahoma
Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding public science museum.
01:14:47 |
Wed 07 Aug 2019
Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye at Science Museum Oklahoma
Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding public science museum. You’ll meet University of Oklahoma researchers who are exploring Mars and lea…
01:14:48 |
Wed 07 Aug 2019
Space Policy Edition: The Home Front During Apollo (with Emily Margolis)
Did the public support Project Apollo? Dr. Emily Margolis joins the show to explore the domestic politics and cultural impact of the space age throughout the 1960s. Despite the success of the lunar l…
01:23:26 |
Fri 02 Aug 2019
A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement
It will be the first flying machine on another world. Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung shares her plans. There’s big news about The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2! You’ll hear it from embed…
00:37:40 |
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings
Join us as the little cubesat successfully unfurls its solar sail. You’ll hear from members of the LightSail 2 mission team on the morning of July 23, 2019, when the critical command was sent to the …
00:39:29 |
Wed 24 Jul 2019
Apollo 11 and the Woman Who Helped Get It Home
Poppy Northcutt was a pioneer—the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control. The program she helped to create got the astronauts back to Earth. Fifty years later, she sits down wi…
00:55:27 |
Wed 17 Jul 2019
We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan
NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan. Mission Principal Investigator Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle helps us celebrate. Troy Hudson…
00:56:45 |
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Space Policy Edition: Why Apollo Happened (with Roger Launius)
Half a century has passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin imprinted humanity's first footsteps upon another world. Apollo 11 was the culmination of a decade's worth of fervent activity in which …
01:45:17 |
Fri 05 Jul 2019
LightSail Takes Flight!
A giant SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off in the early hours of June 25th. One week later, the LightSail 2 solar sail was released to begin its epic mission. You’ll join the thrilling launch, meet Light…
00:50:29 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
The News From Saturn-With Linda Spilker
It has been many months since the great Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and fiery death. Yet the mission lives on as the reams of data and images reveal much more of this beautif…
00:38:29 |
Wed 26 Jun 2019
Flight by Light: A LightSail 2 Mission Preview
The day is almost here. With the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, The Planetary Society will begin its mission to prove that a tiny, orbiting spacecraft can be propelled by the light of the Sun. Soci…
00:48:22 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Quasars and Quanta: Exploring Einstein’s Quantum Riddle
Even though his own work led to it, Albert Einstein never cared for quantum mechanics concepts like entanglement, which he called “spooky action at a distance.” While there’s no doubt it is real, cou…
00:58:16 |
Wed 12 Jun 2019
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