April 9th Radio Show online

Sorry for the delay, but the April 9th radio show is finally available for download here. On this program, I covered:

• Calendar of upcoming science events in the Poughkeepsie/New York City area
• Interview with Dr. Dave Thompson of Goddard Space Flight Center on multi-wavelength studies and GLAST
• News: Major shake-ups in NASA's administration - 2006 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. John Mather to focus his efforts on the James Webb Space Telescope (for more info on the successor to Hubble, listen to this.), Dr. S. Alan Stern resigns as Science Chief due to disputes with Administrator Michael Griffin over cuts to Mars rovers to fund overruns in cost of upcoming Mars Science Laboratory; NASA announces "Cassini Scientist for a Day" competition, more info available here; NASA hosted its 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, AL - congratulations to all the teams who entered; Italy to help Kenya develop an Earth-observing satellite; Chinese Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telesope (LAMOST) observatory approaches final technological hurdles before attempting to do an even larger and deeper survey of the sky than the extremely successful Sloan Digital Sky Survey; "Dark Matter" the movie in theaters on April 11 - science is a pretty accurate representation of Astronomical thought at the time, and character portrayals interesting for the first 2/3 of the movie.

Thank you very much for listening, and please email me or leave any questions, comments, or concerns you might have below.