Live at the Space Tech Expo with Bill Nye, Xcor and Zero-G

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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PlanRad Live takes to the road again, this time visiting the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach, California for a conversation with enthusiastic team members at Xcor Aerospace, where they are building the Lynx spaceplane, and the Zero Gravity Corporation, whose “G-Force One” plane has allowed thousands of men and women to experience weightlessness. Bill Nye joined the fun on stage, and Bruce Betts arrived with t-shirts for the winners of the live What’s Up space trivia contest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Live from the Space Tech Expo in beautiful Long Beach, California,
0:10.0	this is Planetary Radio Live.
0:18.0	Here's the host of Planetary Radio Radio,
0:20.0	Matt Kaplan.
0:22.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the final Military Radio, Matt Kaplan.
0:22.8	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:26.3	As you just heard, we're at the Seaside Convention Center in Long Beach,
0:29.4	where the Second Space Tech Expo will be wrapping up in a couple of hours.
0:34.0	You may be able to hear the activity on the exhibit floor in the background here.
0:37.5	That's where scores of companies are showing off their hardware, software, and services that are the bedrock of all activity in space.
0:46.4	Later today I'll welcome Bruce Betts for an on-stage edition of What's Up, including the
0:50.8	chance for a few people in our audience to play the space trivia game.
0:54.8	Emily Lockwall is on the road this week, but she'll be back with us on next week's show.
1:00.0	Right now I want to welcome my boss, the CEO of the Planetary Society, ladies and
1:03.7	gentlemen, it's Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
1:06.0	Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Welcome to Planetary Radio.
1:11.6	You spoke here at the expo this morning, didn't you?
1:15.0	Yes, a man can dream.
1:17.0	Yeah, we talked about the need someday soon to deflect an asteroid and how the planetary society has this
1:23.7	fabulous scheme to do it using the laser bees. You're an engineer. Do you get a
1:29.3	kick out of bee in it something like this with all these gadgets and do that?
1:32.6	So the gadgets and I just love my beloved 316 stainless steel.
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