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Listen, we have nine different poems to hear all from the collection, of course, I think we ought to go ahead and get to one of those. And since I've just mentioned our boss at The Planetary Society, the CEO, let's start with his reading.

An eclectic collection of poetry from BCE to the present, which reveals our unchanging response to a starry night, along with our changing understanding of the science.' With Tracy K Smith, she looks out into space or thinking about those images. They're kind of terrifying but I love that last line in that the distance, the expanse that we see is both terrifying but there's also the sense of it being alive, there's a sense that it comprehends us in a way almost as much as we comprehend it. It was also just wonderful to hear Alan read that. New Horizons is one of my favorite missions, it's one that in the poem that I wrote for this book, there's a little bit of a mention of Pluto but that's just one that inspires me so much. Wait, there's more... For an adventure of galactic proportions, blast off in search of The Lost Astronaut! Join the Stardust crew on a journey through the stars in a puzzle book that's filled with galaxy of fun.

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No, we actually weren't. The connection I saw was her being at Planetary Science and it being a poem very much digging into Voyager. There's a lot of research behind that poem it's part of a longer book that really connects with Voyager and thinks about it deeply. So it's wonderful to know that she was there. Chris, what is the reaction been to the book so far? I know that from what I have received, that it has been pretty near ecstatic and very welcome. But when the shuttle arrives and when the sort of era of robotic exploration really takes off, it seems to me a couple of things happened to sort of break down that skepticism and turn it into a form of curiosity and wonder. And one is those images from Hubble, images from Pathfinder and the rise of visual culture because of the internet. And so there's this sudden access to sublime imagery. And in the shuttle crews, people start to see themselves, Mae Jemison flies, we begin to see a different kind of astronaut crew and not just Americans, right? People from all over the world. And so I'd like to think that's part of the trajectory of openness and wonder and curiosity. Appropriate hard questions being asked by these poets as the book moves forward and I think that may have something to do with that sort of change in attitude. Absolutely, love The Society, been a member for so long, love the show so it's an honor to be on the show. Robert Picardo, full disclosure, he is a board member of The Planetary Society and a pretty great emergency medical hologram when you need one you just call out and he appears, it's amazing. That poem gives me goosebumps.

Dawn, darkness, evening, space and the stars; that which the night conceals or shows between its veils is mingled with the fervour of our exalted being. Those who live with love live with eternity.I think bill did a great job, maybe he needs to also put the poetry lecturer hat on and start teaching songs, or something. No, it was wonderful and I hope that you and Bill also caught the sort of sense of the light- defying star, the ancestor of the light-defying starship here maybe was the Planetary Society's LightSail.

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