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Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory looks back

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Gracie Wants a Medallion

The diameter of the crater left by deep impact is a little bit larger than the height of the great pyramid of Giza, which is 430 feet tall. The Stardust spacecraft was able to take a spacecraft through, flew, flew, flying through the tail of a comet and repurpose it to take a quick look at this. We have a winner, Daniel Huckabee. He is a past winner, but it has been well over three years since Daniel Huckabee in Nevada picked up a win here. It's the medallion that the planetary society created in 1989 to commemorate the Voyager missions Neptune and Counter.

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