Notre Dame Planetary Geologist Clive Neal stops by the podcast for a terrifically candid discussion of why the Moon has to be the first stop en route to Mars. We talk about why the Moon holds the key to the new Space Economy; the prospects for NASA making its 2024 Artemis mission deadline; and, why lunar samples are still being analyzed 50 years hence. Why more lunar samples and lunar seismometers are keys to understanding our inner solar system. And why it’s imperative that we revisit the Moon in a permanent way if we are ever to make Mars our own. We also mull over the politics of all of this three weeks away from a pivotal presidential election.
Episode 27 --- Why Mars Went Wrong
Episode 26 --- How The Cold War Spurred The Earliest Days Of Interplanetary Exploration
Episode 25 --- Getting To Know Andromeda, Our Grand Spiral Neighbor
Episode 24 --- How Oxygen Transformed Our Planet Earth
Episode 23 --- China’s Space Agenda Gets Serious
Episode 22 --- The Far Future Of Our Universe (Turtles All the Way Down)
Episode 21 --- How Aircraft Propellers Drove The Aeronautical Revolution
Episode 19 --- The Trouble With Mercury: Our Solar System's Bizarre Innermost Planet
Episode 18 --- The Heyday of Flying by the Stars
Episode 17 --- How We All Got Here --- Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time
Episode 16 --- Deciphering Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), arguably the most bizarre radio emissions ever detected.
Episode 15 --- Amelia Earhart Disappearance Is Likely Very Close To Being Solved
Episode 14 --- Does the Dwarf Planet Ceres Harbor Life?
Episode 13 --- Why Future Space-Based Arrays Of Optical Telescopes Will Likely Be 3-D Printed In Orbit
Episode 12 --- Understanding Potential Alien Technosignatures
Episode 11 --- Betelgeuse Dimming Mystery Might Be Solved, Says Edward Guinan
Episode 10 --- Why Mars Remains So Misunderstood
Episode 9 --- How ESA's GAIA Satellite Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Milky Way
Episode 8 --- How NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Telescope Will Help Us Figure Out Our Own Solar System
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