Hosted by The Planetary Society · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 11 episodes
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Each month we delve into a new space-themed book and chat with the author. Hosted by Mat Kaplan, the creator of Planetary Radio and Senior Communications Adviser for The Planetary Society.
The Planetary Society hosts Planetary Radio: Book Club Edition, a science show with 11 episodes published.
Celebrated author and poet Diane Ackerman joins us for a lively conversation about the new edition of her wonderful collection. Carl Sagan described it as spectacularly good poetry.
Sir Peter Beck adds to the story told about his hugely successful and innovative company in “The Launch of Rocket Lab,” a beautifully illustrated, monumental book.
Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf eloquently explores the future of humanity and what we will become when we live beyond Earth.
Bruce Betts helps us explore the latest and last in his excellent library of space books for young people. He and host Mat Kaplan take up “Are We Alone?” and “The Size of Space.”
The delightful astrophysicist and science communicator Adam Frank shares his thoughts about the search for life and intelligence across the Universe in the Planetary Society’s member book club.
The Planetary Society’s Kate Howells has written this beautifully illustrated trek among our Solar System’s most intriguing and mysterious moons.
Author David Baron has written the definitive, true story of a time when nearly everyone in America was utterly convinced there was a supremely intelligent civilization on the Red Planet, and they wanted to talk with us!
Space Craze author Margaret Weitekamp of the National Air and Space Museum documents our fascination with all things space, as evidenced by the pop culture artifacts she lovingly oversees in the collection.
Author and historian of science Dava Sobel talks about her many wonderful books with The Planetary Society’s Mat Kaplan. Dava recently received the Society’s Cosmos Award.
Frank White is the author of “The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution. “ Now in its fourth edition, the book has crystallized and expanded on the profound sense of wonder and oneness experienced by nea
Bestselling science fiction author Andy Weir joins The Planetary Society’s Mat Kaplan for a deeply fascinating and very entertaining conversation about his #1 bestselling novel, Project Hail Mary, soon to be a major moti
Peter Beck
Rocket Lab founder · Rocket Lab
1 appearance on this show
Adam Frank
astrophysicist and science communicator
1 appearance on this show
Margaret Weitekamp
curator and chair of the space history department · Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
1 appearance on this show
Dava Sobel
author and historian of science
1 appearance on this show
Frank White
author of the Overview Effect · Human Space Program, Inc.
1 appearance on this show
Andy Weir
Sci-Fi Author
1 appearance on this show
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