While I’m on the subject of movies, I’ll also recommend a new Imax 3-D movie, “Magnificent Desolation: Walking On The Moon.” Tom Hanks produced and narrates the movie, which is a combination look-back at the Apollo program that put 12 men on the moon and a you-are-there adventure story with staggering images and words from […]
Phil Plait (“The Bad Astronomer”) was back on my show this afternoon, but this time in the studio and for a whole hour. On his website, Phil has been talking about the controversy at NASA over a 24-year-old political appointee (George Deutsch) who was sticking his nose where it didn’t belong — namely, science — […]
With the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger explosion next week, I talked with astronaut Mike Mullane on my show this afternoon. He’s a three-time shuttle mission specialist who has some harsh words for NASA in his book, “Riding Rockets.” He explained what was wrong with the culture inside the space agency after Challenger, […]
Phil Plait is the guy I call whenever something cosmic goes down, such as this weekend’s return of the Stardust mission after a nearly three-billion-mile roundtrip to bring pieces of a comet back to earth. On my show, Phil explained what that means, what NASA did, and why we should care. Listen to our conversation […]
Should we go back to the moon? It’s been 33 years since humans planted footprints in the lunar surface, and now NASA has proposed spending $104 billion to get back there. My guest Gregg Maryniak voted an enthusiastic “yes,” and explained why. Gregg — one of the founders of the X Prize (the $10,000,000 check […]
Here’s my conversation with Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, about the return of the shuttle to space. He explained why — two and a half years after the Columbia disaster — things are still falling off the shuttle. We also discussed whether NASA will, in the near future, get us back to the moon, and […]