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Phoenix is Dead...Long Live Phoenix!
James Cameron on the Science of Avatar
Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman on solar sails IKAROS and LightSail-1
Saturn Update From Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker
PlanRad goes before a live audience to talk rockets with Bill Nye, Jeff Richichi of SpaceX, and JPL pioneer James Burke.
Paul Davies, Author of
Bill Nye the Science Guy reports on last week's conference about the future of the US space program.
JPL engineer Daniel Gaines helped develop new software for Opportunity to autonomously select objects for close-up imaging as she races across Mars. Emily Lakdawalla is thrilled by evidence of recently active volcanos on Venus. Bill Nye salutes three decades of service by retiring Planetary Society founder Lou Friedman.
This is Global Astronomy Month
Alan Stern: The Busiest Man in Space Exploration?
Saving the Hubble Space Telescope in IMAX 3D
Your Personal Photoshoot on Mars?
Stephen Hawking Accepts the Cosmos Award
100 Millions Solar Systems Like Our Own?
Can Mirror Bees Save Our Planet?
Buzz Aldrin and Andrew Chaikin on the Proposed NASA Budget
Planetary Society's Lou Friedman on NASA's New Plans
John Callas tells us why an end to Spirit's roving does not mean the end of her work on the red planet. Emily Lakdawalla looks to the other side of Mars where Opportunity is rolling up to a baby crater, and Bill Nye is head over heels for the highest ever skydive.
Galaxy Builder Andrew Benson
William Borucki on Kepler's Search for Another Earth