Yes, today's radio show is now online and available here. This program focused on Astronomy Day 2008, occurring this Sunday at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY. On this program, I discussed
- Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/Science events in the greater Poughkeepsie / New York City area
- Interview with Marc Taylor, Director of the Andrus Planetarium at the Hudson River Museum on running a Planetarium, and their upcoming Astronomy Day 2008 this Sunday, May 11th.
- News: NASA astronauts Dan Tani and Suni Williams discuss what it takes to be an astronaut on May 7th, available from NASA TV; congratulations to John Blaha, Loren Shriver, Bryan O'Connor, and Bob Cabana for being inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame; Jet Propulsion Laboratory releases a new online Space Gallery of very pretty pictures; NASA releases real-time model of ionosphere for Google Earth (link); NASA media briefing next Tuesday on May 13 on the scheduled May 25th landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander, will be available on NASA TV; work begins on Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector on the future European Space Agency's ExoMars Rover Mission (link); GLAST launch postponed due to possible problems with the rocket; send your name to space on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (deadline: 2008 June 27) and/or the Kepler spacecraft (deadline: 2008 November 1); NASA announces plans to send a probe to the Sun to study and sample its corona (link); online Galaxy wiki-game called Galaxiki now available; International Space Station will be flying over Europe and North America quite often in May, go here; Princeton University Press releases a short animated movie based on "Flatlands", the novel by Edwin A. Abbott; John Wheeler, pre-eminent theoretical physicist/astronomer who worked on everything from the structure of the nucleus, the atomic bomb, and general relativity (he coined the phrase "black hole"), based away on 13 April 2008 at age 96.
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