Happy New Year and happy 45th anniversary to the Planetary Society. This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

The season has changed, a new year has begun, and we're kicking off the Planetary Society's

45th anniversary with our CEO, Bill Nye.

He'll reflect on our organization's first 45 years and what humanity has learned about space in that time.

Then, our chief scientist, Bruce Betts, joins me for What's Up and the first random space fact that time. Then our chief scientist Bruce Betz joins me for What's Up and the

first random space fact of 2025. If you love planetary radio and want to stay informed about the

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and our place within it. We live in a time when space exploration has fundamentally changed the

way we understand and interact with our universe. Our modern technology relies on space exploration,

from weather forecasting to the global positioning satellites that enable

navigation.

Spin-off technologies have changed the way we build, how we farm and eat, our medicine, and the

ways that we communicate.

Humans have had a permanent international presence in space for over two decades aboard

our various space stations.

Our robotic emissaries have visited every planet in our solar system that we know of so far,

along with numerous moons, asteroids, and comets.

Our spacecraft have even ventured into interstellar space.

We've looked out into the vastness of the universe beyond and discovered thousands of worlds,

deep mysteries, and a meaningful scientific connection to all that surrounds us. But all of this could have been very different.

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