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\u201cMaking space for everyone\u201d could be NASA\u2019s motto. But as commercial spaceships get ready to blast off, that populist idea is being tested. Space cowboys in the private sector say they\u2019re the ones who can provide unfettered access to space, for tourists and scientists alike.\nMeet a scientist who already has a ticket to ride on SpaceShip Two and discover what he hopes to learn about asteroids during his five minutes of weightlessness.\nPlus, NASA in motion: it\u2019s back to the moon as the GRAIL mission probes the interior of our lovely lunar satellite. Also, can you dig it? The rover Curiosity can. It\u2019s headed to Mars to hunt for clues to alien life \u2026 with a jackhammer.\nAlso, as the Hubble Space Telescope shuts down, the James Webb Space Telescope revs up. Or does it? The telescope is designed to study the birth of galaxies and hunt for evidence of water on far away worlds. But will Congress pull the plug?\nGuests:\n\n\nJames Oberg - former Space Shuttle Mission Control engineer, and space expert\n\n\nMaria Zuber - Planetary scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Principal Investigator of NASA\u2019s GRAIL mission \n\n\n\nJoy Crisp - Geologist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Principal Investigator on the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity\n\n\n\nMassimo Stiavelli - Astronomer at the Space Science Telescope Institute, and Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope\n\n\n\nDan Durda - Planetary scientist, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado\n\n\n\nMore about the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices