is finally online and now available here. This was the second show in the ongoing series on Goddard Space Flight Center. On this show, I discussed:
- Calendar of science events in the greater New York City / Poughkeepsie area.
- Interview with Dr. Jennifer Wiseman of Goddard Space Flight Center
- News: European Space Agency (ESA) opens new European Space Astronomy Center in Spain; NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has begun monitoring five nearby stars with known transiting planets to try and detect evidence for additional planets around these objects; Chinese-lead international consortium installs new, robotic Astronomical facility called Plateau Team Observatory (PLATO) on Dome A in Antarctica; ESA's Herschel telescope - the next generation infrared satellite to go into space, with a considerably larger mirror than Spitzer or Hubble - has entered final testing phase before its scheduled launch late this year; NASA testing new robot designed to search for life in the oceans of Europa, a moon of Jupiter's; NASA announces competition to rename GLAST, go here for more details.
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