Remembering Bruce Murray

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The passing of Planetary Society co-founder and former JPL Director Bruce Murray has been marked around the world. Planetary Radio takes its turn with this special tribute.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any planet that offers the potential for at least human visiting and bases the way Mars does clearly warrants our attention.
0:15.4	The late Bruce Murray heard on this program more than 10 years ago.
0:19.7	Welcome to a special edition of Planetary Radio, I'm at Kaplan, we are delaying our program about
0:25.2	the MAVEN mission so that we can pay tribute to a pioneering planetary scientist and
0:30.2	explorer.
0:31.2	We'll hear from his longtime colleague and friend Louis Friedman, and we'll reminisce with Bruce Betts about
0:36.5	his time with Dr. Murray at Caltech and the Planetary Society.
0:41.2	First to share his thoughts is the current leader of the society, Bill Nye.
0:45.0	Bill Nye. Bill Nye. Bill with this special edition of Planetary Radio, we mark the passing of a great man, a great
0:51.0	explorer.
0:52.0	Bruce Murray. Bruce Murray.
0:53.4	Bruce Murray was one of the three founders of the planetary society
0:56.7	along with my predecessor Lou Friedman and the very well known Carl Sagan.
1:01.3	And in my opinion, Matt, Bruce Murray changed the world.
1:05.0	By all accounts in these meetings for Mariner 9 spacecraft, things went to Mars.
1:11.0	Bruce was the guy who really pointed out to everybody
1:14.6	the great scientific value of cameras
1:18.4	and how they would contribute to our understanding,
1:20.2	especially the planet Mars.
1:22.3	This was at a time when scientists thought that cameras would be a publicity stunt.
1:27.0	These people wanted to send Geiger counters and thermometers and light level meters
1:32.0	without actually taking a picture.
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