This week, the guys welcome all of our new followers from Awesome Con (hi everyone!) with an episode all about new exoplanets, the AWESOME Bill Nye: Science Guy documentary, and how France is trying to make the planet great (again?).

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Latest from Washington

Awesome Con

NASA closing out Asteroid Redirect Mission

Go see the Bill Nye documentary. Seriously.

National Academies of Science just released a Planetary Protection report

Space News Highlight of the Week

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets

International News

Emmanuel Macron wants to make our planet great again

Latest in Tech

French startup raises $1.9M for SmallSat electric propulsion

Coming Soon to Space

NASA Briefings on Total Solar Eclipse

More info about the eclipse

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