{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/5e5bb49f13b6828a4aaadc7e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"High Moon","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/69c54303330540d8fbc7445d9faecbdd.jpg?height=200","description":"<p><em>(repeat)</em> \"The moon or bust” is now officially bust.  No private company was able to meet the Lunar X Prize challenge, and arrange for a launch by the 2018 deadline.  The $30 million award goes unclaimed, but the race to the moon is still on. Find out who wants to go and why this is not your parents’ – or grandparents’ – space race.</p> <p>With or without a cash incentive, private companies are still eyeing our cratered companion, hoping to set hardware down on its dusty surface.  Meanwhile, while the U.S. waffles about a return to the moon, India and China are sending a second round of robots skyward.  And a proposed orbiting laboratory – the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway – may literally put scientists over, and around, the moon.</p> <p>The moon continues to entice sci-fi writers, and Andy Weir’s new novel describes a vibrant lunar colony. Its premise of colonists launched from Kenya is not entirely fiction: the nation is one of many in Africa with space programs.</p> <p>Guests:</p> <ul> <li>Andy Weir – Author of “The Martian” and, most recently, “Artemis”</li> <li>Allen Herbert – Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NanoRacks, LLC and author of an article about emerging space programs in Africa</li> <li>Greg Schmidt – Deputy director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at NASA Ames Research Center</li> <li>Jason Crusan – NASA Director of Advanced Exploration Systems for Human Space Flight</li> </ul>","author_name":"Seth Shostak, Molly Bentley, SETI Institute"}