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Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

Forty years after the first moon landing, it’s “Moon versus Mars” for the next big push in space.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 11:00 am

NASA celebrates as its astronauts wrap up a daring mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. We’ll look at the repair crew in space.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 at 2:55 pm

We were thrilled to have Leonard Nimoy join us today for our show on the new Star Trek film. He gave us some fascinating personal insights into playing the role of Spock. Here’s an excerpt…

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Friday, March 6, 2009 at 11:00 am

NASA’s Kepler space telescope readies for launch — and a new search for life “out there.”

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 10:00 am

A year ago, without warning, China shot one of its own satellites out of the sky. The U.S. protested loudly. But what a difference a year makes. The U.S. Navy is preparing to take out one of our own ailing spy satellites with a ship-launched missile — perhaps tonight.
The bus-sized satellite carries half a ton [...]

 
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:00 am

Fifty years ago this week, Americans were smacked awake on space by the orbiting wonder called Sputnik. The Soviets were up there. We were not. And only a first foot on the moon could ease the shock. America was number one in space.
Fast forward to 2007, and the high frontier is looking like nobody’s backyard [...]

 
Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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