NASA is sending a dual-rotor helicopter probe to Titan, a moon of Saturn. If this doesn’t make you click, we’re not sure what will.
Author Reading & Book Signing: Robert Kurson
702WI welcomes New York Times bestselling author Robert Kurson, who will read from and discuss his newest book, ROCKET MEN. Doors open at 6:30pm, event begins at 7pm. A book signing will follow. The event is free, but please RSVP. By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two […]
Most Earth-like Planets Found
In tonight’s episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine, we discuss the recent finding of as many as seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star in the TRAPPIST-1 system. And it’s one of the closest to Earth, a mere 40 light years away. PNM’s Will Cushman talks with Sanjay Limaye, Senior Scientist at UW-Madison’s Space Science and […]
NASA’s Climate Research Under Threat from Trump
Brian Standing interviews Galen McKinley, recently named a Bryson Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute Center for Climactic Research, about recent announcements from senior advisors to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that NASA’s Earth Sciences Division will be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space. Galen McKinley is one of the […]
Challenges to Organizing a Mars Colony
In September, Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation announced their Interplanetary Transport System plan to start colonizing the planet Mars. Vehicles carrying passengers could depart for the Red Planet, says SpaceX, as soon as 2024. SpaceX’s proposal is only the latest in a long line of similar plans, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European […]
Solar powered satellites? Nah…we want plutonium, says NASA
NASA has contended for over 40 years that its solar-system exploring satellites cannot function on solar energy beyond the orbit of Mars. But the successful orbit of the Juno explorer around Jupiter has disproven that — and Karl Grossman, author of the book “The Wrong Stuff”, discusses NASA’s continuing love affair with potentially dangerous plutonium-238 […]
