We humans began another journey to the Moon on the evening of Friday, September 6th.

Planetary Radio celebrated that event with one of our special shows produced in front of a live audience.

The complete webcast of that great night is now available on the show page at planetary.org

slash radio. What you're about to hear are excerpts of that 90 minute

program. I was joined by planetary scientists Bruce Betts and David Page along with the Laddie missions

Brian Day direct from the launch site and we enjoyed a surprise visit from a new

contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

Let's get started.

Hi everybody, welcome to another planetary radio live.

We are coming to you tonight live from Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum,

where there is a standing room only crowd of space junkies.

Who wants to go to the Moon tonight. All right, we are now less than an hour away from the lift-off of Laddie.

That's the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer. Yeah, you heard right.

Atmosphere on the moon? Yes, and that's just one of the great things that we've learned

about our closest companion in the solar

system. The only one that we've actually visited in person, though it's been

over 40 years since that happened. We'll learn why this is an important and

historic mission,

beginning with the launch site that we're going to be blasting off from this evening.

We will also talk with Lunar Explorer David Page of UCLA

and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.

Then we'll go directly to that launch site for a live report from the Laddie missions Brian Day.

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