Earl Swift Takes Us Across the Airless Wilds - Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion July 20, 2021
The first major history of NASA's lunar buggy is out, and we talk with the author, Earl Swift about the book, this revolutionary vehicle, and the Apollo Project.
Talking with Earl Swift, New Your Times best-selling author, about his new book, Across the Airless Wilds - a look at NASA’s lunar buggy!
Hello, everyone!
This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome New York Times best-selling author Earl Swift to the show. He recently released a new book, Across the Airless Wilds, the first major history of NASA's lunar buggy.
We're also going to hear about NASA's latest success story, as the Hubble Space Telescope is successfully repaired, readying to continue exploring the Cosmos. We will also journey out to Venus, looking at the ultimate source of phosphine in the atmosphere of our planetary neighbor. Finally, we learn a possible answer to a 40-year-old mystery about the King of the Solar System, Jupiter.
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Earl Swift visits Astronomy News with the Cosmic Companion on 20 July, 2021, talking about his new book, Across the Airless Wilds.
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We have a stellar lineup of guests coming up in the coming weeks!
July 27 (s5/e4): ~double interview~ CHIME member Kaitlyn Shin, MIT grad student, explains fast radio bursts (FRBs)
~plus~ Dr. Stephen Kane, astrophysicist at UC Riverside, talks about the value of private spaceflight in solving problems here on Earth.
August 3 (s5/e5): Teaching science to children with Stephanie Ryan, author of Let’s Learn Chemistry.
TBA: Geoff Notkin, host of Meteorite Men on the Science Channel and president of the National Space Society, talks meteorites.
TBA: ~just announced~ Dr. Jonathan Lunine, astronomer at Cornell, tells us about the volcanoes of Venus!
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