Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

• Episode: Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
• Website: Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
• Feed URL: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/podcasts/planetary-radio-podcast-rss.xml
• Duration: 00:49:14
• Published: 2021-07-21 17:00

We may finally get the powerful telescope we’ve needed to find almost all of the near-Earth objects that are big enough to destroy a city. University of Arizona professor Amy Mainzer leads the NEO Surveyor project. She returns to Planetary Radio with the full story. Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos and three colleagues rode a rocket that briefly put them in space. We’ll hear from Bezos and 82-year-old Wally Funk. The pilot and former astronaut candidate is now the oldest person to have reached space. Discover more at  https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/amy-mainzer-neo-surveyor See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.