Touring Mt. Wilson with George Ellery Hale's Descendants

On this special vacation edition of the show, we climb to the Mount Wilson Observatory to join a special tour for the descendants of the facility’s fascinating founder, George Ellery Hale. It is provided by David Jurasevich, the Observatory's superintendent. Bruce Betts has a salute for Apollo 11’s 44^th anniversary in this week’s What’s Up segment, and joins Mat Kaplan for another space trivia contest.  Bill Nye and Emily Lakdawalla return next week.

Related Links

• Mount Wilson Observatory
• George Ellery Hale
• Bruce Betts' New Facebook Page

Trivia Contest

This week's prize is the NEW and stylish Planetary Radio T-shirt!

This week's question:
How long were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin separated from the Apollo 11 command module in the Lunar Module Eagle?

To submit your answer:
Complete the contest entry form at http:planetary.org/radiocontest or write to us at [email protected] no later than Monday, July 22th, at 2pm Pacific Time.  Be sure to include your name, mailing address and shirt size.

Last week's question:
Besides Pluto, name at least one fictional dog that shares its name with a solar system object (not on Earth).

Answer:
The answer will be revealed next week.

Question from the week before:
Besides the five spacecraft on escape trajectories out of the solar system, what is the most distant INTACT spacecraft?  (Remember, the NCC-1701 is fictional.)

Answer:
The most distant, intact spacecraft that is NOT headed out of the solar system is Cassini.