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Performer’s conservatorship is over, but activists say she’s not the only one
From: KSFP
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The end of Britney Spears' conservatorship raises questions about who gets "conserved" and why. "Civic" talks to mental health activists who are w...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:28
The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Illustration of DART, from behind the NEXT–C ion engine, Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The DART mission begins its journey that will end when it smashes into an asteroid, demonstrating how we might save Earth from a devastating impact.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC) is one of three Deep Space Network (DSN) facilities. Each of the facilities is located approximately 120 degrees of longitude apart so that at least one station is able to downlink and uplink signals , Credit: NASA
Spacecraft need a navigation and communication infrastructure to carry out their missions. Learn how NASA does it and what’s in store for the future.

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Solving America's Traffic Cop Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brett Simpson
Two summers ago, calls to defund the police swept across the nation, spurred by high-profile incidents of police brutality against people of color....

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Lucy spacecraft observes one of the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit in this artist concept., Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Principal investigator Hal Levison and colleagues prepare us for the launch of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an exclusive interview.

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials., Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The ion engine-powered Dawn spacecraft will orbit Ceres for many years. Could it have touched down on the surface of the dwarf planet?

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Highlights of the annual gathering of leaders and experts who are building toward humans walking on the Red Planet.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The Wonderful: a new documentary about the International Space Station
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronaut Cady Coleman, ISS-27 flight engineer, looks over two of four flutes brought with her to the International Space Station in her small allotment of personal items. She is in the Cupola., Credit: NASA
Director Clare Lewins and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman discuss the new documentary “The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station.”

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Case for a Return to Enceladus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of the late Cassini spacecraft approaching the giant water plumes emanating from the icy surface of Enceladus., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Flying a spacecraft through geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might reveal the building blocks of life or even life itself.

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The ESCAPADE Mars mission will consist of two identical satellites — “Blue” and “Gold” — that will study how the planet’s ionosphere and magnetic field interact., Credit: Rocket Lab
Can NASA send robotic explorers to Mars for a tiny fraction of what most missions cost?

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured the infrared, green, and blue-light images used to make pictures of the Martian south pole., Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford / Edited by The Planetary Society
New research indicates that what appeared to be liquid water hiding under Mars’ polar ice may actually be a form of clay.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: We are on the cusp of exploring what may be the best place in our solar system to look for life beyond Earth. That place is Jupiter’s moon Europa., Credit: NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Mission system manager Al Cangahuala says the robotic explorer of Jupiter’s ocean moon is making steady progress toward a 2024 launch.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Cassini, Voyager and beyond with Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Cassini spacecraft flies through the plumes emanating from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This still image is from a computer-animated film that highligts the Cassini-Huygens mission accomplishments., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Cassini mission project scientist returns with new science from ocean moon Enceladus and anniversaries to celebrate with the Voyager mission.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
How Perseverance Drives Itself Around Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Perseverance rover looks back over the tracks is has laid across Jezero Crater on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Perseverance rover’s chief robotics engineer takes us for a spin across Mars.

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in its payload configuration, carrying science experiments into a microgravity environment., Credit: Virgin Galactic
Planetary scientist and New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says great science will ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Orig...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Remembering Apollo 15 with author Andy Chaikin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Irwin with Apollo 15's Lunar Roving Vehicle. Developed in a breakneck 17 months, the LRV greatly extended the exploration range of final three Apollo missions., Credit: NASA/The Planetary Society
Space historian and author of A Man on the Moon Andy Chaikin returns as we celebrate Apollo 15’s 50th anniversary.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission shows the space telescope in front of a star field captured by the WISE telescope., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The Planetary Society
NASA has approved development of the NEO Surveyor space telescope. Project lead Amy Mainzer will share her hopes for this vital planetary defense t...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
We’re Going Back to Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin
Leaders of the DAVINCI and VERITAS missions tell us what their spacecraft will reveal about the planet that is so much like Earth and yet so terrib...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits with its five-layer sunshield fully deployed during testing at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California., Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Host Mat Kaplan visits the James Webb Space Telescope in California to see the observatory before it launches and speak with project leaders.

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chemical Space, Credit: Naomi Johnson and Lee Cronin
University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin believes he and his collaborators have found a way to recognize life as we know it and as we don’t know it.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Pearly Clouds of Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or "mother of pearl," clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon discusses the beautiful clouds on Mars imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Ronny Dawson discusses alien home invasion and contactee experiences
From: Ray Samuels
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In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 27:08
Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a large asteroid crashing toward Earth., Credit: Getty Images
Planetary Society grants have enabled amateur astronomers to discover and track asteroids that cross Earth’s path. We’ll meet two of them.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Arica Angelo - World Renowned Dating & Relationship Expert for Men
From: Ray Samuels
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Arica Angelo - World Renowned Dating & Relationship Expert for Men

  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 01:43:24