Planetary Radio • Feb 18, 2008
A Cassini at Saturn Progress Report with Linda and Tom Spilker
On This Episode
Linda Spilker
Voyager Mission Project Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tom Spilker
Vice President of Engineering for Above: Space Development Corporation
Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker rejoins us for another update on the incredibly successful Cassini-Huygens mission, but this time she is joined by her husband and colleague Tom Spilker, a principal member of the engineering staff at JPL, where he often serves as a mission architect. Bill Nye the Science Guy remembers Explorer 1 and its discovery of the Van Allen Belts. Emily Lakdawalla puts relativity to work in a new Q&A, and Bruce Betts goes to amazing lengths to give away a Planetary Radio t-shirt with Mat Kaplan. The boys also offer a new space trivia contest. Smoots, anyone?