On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep space exploration.
Dr. Stern, planetary scientist and the Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, discusses what we learned about Pluto, the prospects for a future Pluto orbiter, the news from the Kuiper Belt, and to talk about his experiences as a commercial suborbital astronaut. Oh, and he might just mention that he was short-listed to fly on the space shuttle!
Alan is one of those people that just has one adventure after another... did I mention that he dove on the Titanic? Yeah, that kind of guy. Join us for an hour of deep space adventure.
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Space news of the week
- US in real danger of losing the moon race to China, experts tell Senate
- Moon-to-Mars veteran Amit Kshatriya named NASA associate administrator
- The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is wrapped in carbon dioxide fog, NASA space telescope reveals
- Dr. Alan Stern
- New Horizons: Beyond Pluto
- How Alan Stern Brought Pluto to Earth
- Another Ring of Objects Might Exist in the Outer Solar System
- Ten years after Pluto, New Horizons faces a new threat
- New Pluto mission could uncover dwarf planet's hidden ocean — if the 'queen of the underworld' gets to fly
- Life’s prospects on Pluto
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This Week in Space covers the new space age. Every Friday we take a deep dive into a fascinating topic. What's happening with the new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX really send people to Mars?
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