Reminder: This Week's Weekly Space Hangout with Special Guest Alan Stern

By Nancy Atkinson - February 16, 2012 at 4:06 AM UTC | Site News

Just a reminder that we'll be doing our regular live Weekly Space Hangout On Air on Thursday at the usual time of 18:00 UTC (1 pm EST, 12 Noon CST, 10 am PST) with our regular group of space journalists (Fraser Cain, Phil Plait, Ian O'Neil, Pamela Gay, Emily Lakdawalla, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci and Nancy Atkinson). But this week we will be joined by a very special guest, Dr. Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator for the New Horizon's mission to Pluto and the LAMP instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. You won't want to miss this unique chance to hear directly from Dr. Stern.

To watch the Hangout on Air,

circle Fraser on Google+

and watch his feed for the link to the Hangout. There you can join in on the conversation and post your questions for Dr. Stern by posting comments on the feed.

If you aren't on Google+, you can also watch it live on the

CosmoQuest Hangouts page

, where there is also a place to post comments and questions. And we'll also try to have a live feed on Universe Today. Just look for a video player in the upper right hand corner of the site and click the 'play' button. If you can't watch live, we'll post a recording of the Hangout later on UT.

Additionally, as a heads up, I'll be doing a live Hangout on Air interview of astronomer Mike Brown on Friday, Feb. 17 at 18:00 UTC -- and you can watch live by the same means as above.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com