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NASA’s Red Planet Rick and Putting Humans on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of humans exploring Mars, Credit: NASA/Pat Rawlings, SAIC
Rick Davis is the perfect person to co-lead NASA’s Mars Human Landing Sites Study. No one is more devoted to putting human bootprints on the Red Pl...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Reflections of Humanity in a Spacesuit for Moonwalkers
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Buzz Aldrin is protected by his fabric moonsuit in this classic photo by Neil Armstrong., Credit: NASA
Host Mat Kaplan in a long and fascinating conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. This great book is about ...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye at Science Museum Oklahoma
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye with host Mat Kaplan during Planetary Radio Live show at Science Museum Oklahoma., Credit: 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...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Waste Not, Warm Not
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Food Rescuers, Credit: Food Rescue US
Smartphone app turns food waste to meals instead of methane.

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: First hi-res image returned by LightSail 2 after deployment of its sails reveals Baja California far below., Credit: The Planetary Society
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 Planet...

Bought by KDNK, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The LightSail 2 mission operations team moments before the cubesat's big sail was deployed., Credit: Mat Kaplan
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 ...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Untold Story of the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Rich...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
Apollo 11 and the Woman Who Helped Get It Home
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Poppy Northcutt in Apollo Mission Control, circa 1969., Credit: TRW
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...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KVSC, KVLU, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Humankind special: Whole Teachers - Whole Students
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Produced by David Freudberg in association with WGBH/Boston. Faced with the deep divisions polarizing America, can education that is “pro-social” p...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WVTF, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUT, WGCU and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 52:29
  • Purchases: 21
We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of Dragonfly over the surface of Saturn's moon Titan., Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan. Mission Principal Investigator Eli...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
RDD: The First Public Parks
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The weather has been nice to The Rough Draft Diaries so we're heading outside yet again for this week's episode. We're at Woodlawn Cemetery and Arb...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 06:16
LightSail Takes Flight!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Launch attendees look up in wonder at the ascending SpaceX Falcon Heavy, carrying LightSail 2., Credit: Navid Baraty/The Planetary Society
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 m...

Bought by KDNK, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The News From Saturn-With Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A false-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of Saturn's ring-embedded moons, and the waves it kicks up in the Keeler gap. Images collected by Cassini's close orbits in 2017 are offering new insight into the complex workings of the rings., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Stonewall 100: Riotous Past, Rapturous Futures
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Fifty years ago at The Stonewall Inn, gay pride took the form of a riot, not a parade. Today, the question remains as relevant as ever: Just how do...

Bought by WRIR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Concerns about legalizing marijuana? Use revenue to support social and emotional learning
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Feel Better and Live Healthier
Children who experience social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools are less likely to drink alcohol, take drugs, or smoke. On the plus side the...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 52:25
Starchaser: Extraordinary Astronomer Jay Pasachoff
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • The Williams College Eclipse Expedition was in Salem, Oregon, for the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 21, 2017., Credit: • Jay Pasachoff and the Williams College solar Eclipse Expeditions
Jay Pasachoff visits Planetary Society headquarters for a conversation about the latest edition of his and Alex Filippenko’s monumental textbook Th...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
190531: If You Won't, We Will: Youth Action on Climate, 5/31/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...

  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Sharing a Passion for Mars at the Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of humans exploring Mars, Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
This year’s Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC once again ended with a panel of Martian all-stars talking about their hopes for a future that i...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Talking with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Credit: NASA
The former Oklahoma congressman and Navy aviator stepped into the leadership role barely a year ago. Now he wants to see humans back on the Moon by...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Last Visit With LightSail 2 at the Cubesat Developers Workshop
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail 2 in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo clean room, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Mat Kaplan visits Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a last, clean room visit with LightSail 2, the Planetary Society’s solar sailing cubesat. While the...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
High Water, Dry Feet: Dutch defense against disaster
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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From artificial beaches maintained by natural ocean currents, to projects that make extra room for rivers flowing through cities, the Dutch know ho...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 18:14
116: A Radical Idea To End Poverty
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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This week, we hear about a radical plan to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Incom...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, WLPR , KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
Planetary Radio Live Defends Planet Earth!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and his Planetary Radio Live panel at the Planetary Defense Conference public event. From left to right: Mat, Nancy Chabot, Gerhard Drolshagen, Kelly Fast, Rüdiger Jehn, and Carrie Nugent, Credit: Antonio Peronace for The Planetary Society
Leaders of the global effort to avoid a catastrophic Near Earth Object impact gathered at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference. On the evening of ...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Skies of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s impression of a recently discovered super-Earth that orbits the nearby star GJ 1214. Discovered with the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, GJ 1214b is the second super- Earth exoplanet for which astronomers have det, Credit: ESO / L. Calcada
There appear to be more mini-Neptunes (also known as Super Earths) across our galaxy than any other type of planet. Hannah Wakeford wants to learn...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6

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