• PROJECTS
• THE PLANETARY REPORT
• PLANETARY RADIO
  • Program Archives
  • Who's Who
  • Radio Stations
  • Podcast
• WEBLOG
• SOCIETY UPDATES

browse projects: Apophis Mission Design Competition Asteroid Impact Mapping System Catalog of Exoplanets Drive a Mars Rover Extrasolar Planets Transit Search International Lunar Decade LIFE Experiment: Phobos Mars Climate Sounder Team Website Messages from Earth Observing Earth Pioneer Anomaly Planetary Microphones S.O.S: Save Our Science! SETI Optical Telescope SETI Radio Searches SETI@home Shoemaker NEO Grants Solar Sailing Space Advocacy Space Information Stardust@home Target Earth Visions of Mars

browse space topics: 2001 Mars Odyssey Asteroids and Comets Cassini-Huygens Chandra X-Ray Observatory Chandrayaan-1 Chang'e 1 Compare the Planets Dawn Deep Impact Earth Extrasolar Planets Genesis Hayabusa (MUSES-C) Hubble Space Telescope Jupiter Kaguya (SELENE) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mars Mars Exploration Rovers Mars Express Mars Global Surveyor Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mercury MESSENGER Moon Near Earth Objects Neptune New Horizons New Horizons Digital Time Capsule Past Missions Phoenix Planetary Analogs Planetary Exploration Timelines Planetfest 2008 Pluto and Charon Pluto Top Ten Postcards from Venus Private Missions Rosetta Saturn Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SMART-1 SOHO Space Imaging Spitzer Space Telescope Stardust Trans-Neptunian Objects Ulysses Uranus Venus Venus Express Voyager Weekly Planetary Radio Trivia Contest

Planetary Radio

Thunderbirds Director Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek Fame

Airdate: Monday, July 26, 2004
Running Time: 00:28:50
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

Star Trek Next Generation fans will always remember him as Commander Will Riker of the Starship Enterprise, but he now sits in the director's chair for movies including the newly released Thunderbirds. Jonathan Frakes talks about the film and the power of science fiction movies and TV to change the lives of young people. Emily Lakdawalla explains how long the Cassini spacecraft will live long and prosper, while Bruce Betts offers up another space trivia contest in What's Up!

Guests

• Jonathan Frakes, Director of Thunderbirds

Related Information

• "Classic" Thunderbirds TV Series Site
• Explore the Saturn System with Cassini-Huygens
• Thunderbirds Feature Film Site