Advocating for Planetary Science/Star Trek Meets Spacefarers

Planetary Science funding from NASA is in trouble, so a delegation led by Bill Nye the Science Guy descended on Washington DC last week to sound the alarm. Planetary Society Advocacy chief Casey Dreier provides a report, and comments on the Society’s support for NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission.  First though, an audio treat as we hear the director and cast of Star Trek: Into Darkness meet up with real spacefarers. Emily Lakdawalla has an update on the two Mars rovers, while Bruce Betts goes where no man has gone before in a Trek-influenced What’s Up segment.

Related Links

• Casey Dreier's Blog:  NASA Robs Planetary Science
• Press Release: Planetary Society Announces Conditional Support of NASA's Asteroid Mission
• 2013 Parsec Awards Nomination Page
• Emily Lakdawalla's Blog: Opportunity and Curiosity Updates

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What planet in our solar system has the longest solar day?

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