Made your summer vacation plans yet? We'll help pick out science, technology, and environment related destinations that you might want to add to your list.

A new book looks at the technology and science of airline travel from your window seat. [27 mins. 32 secs.]

This week, President Obama unveiled his proposed budget for 2011. We'll talk about how the proposed budget might affect science.

The US spends $4 million each year to search for comets or asteroids that could threaten the planet. That's not enough to get the job done, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

This week, NASA announced that Spirit, one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, appears to be permanently stuck in Martian soil, and that the rover would now be used only as a stationary observation platform.

NASA scientists are still trying to free the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in Martian soil since April. After a long period of study, the rover pilots began a careful series of maneuvers designed to back Spirit out of its sand trap....

Friday, NASA scientists announced that they had found 'a significant amount' of lunar water through the recent LCROSS lunar impact mission.

Ira talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about his new book about the nature of time. Did time and space exist before the Big Bang?

What would it take for humans to be able to live and work on Mars?

In The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin argues that humans should colonize the Red Planet.

We'll check in on the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting and talk about highlights from the conference.

We'll talk with the executive producer of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory about packing science into a television comedy.

Listen to an interview with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss as he discusses whether a human expedition to Mars should involve a return trip to the Earth. [10:50]

We talk with director Duncan Jones about his recent science fiction movie 'Moon.

The night of December 20 will bring a lunar eclipse to the skies over much of North and South America. We'll get viewing tips.

A retrospective analysis found that early flights had a one-in-nine chance of catastrophic failure. [12 mins. 21 secs.]

The tumultuous saga of the Shuttle program comes to an end and NASA moves on.

The first privately built spacecraft could dock at the International Space Station this year.

A Russian rocket crash might lead to the evacuation of the International Space Station.

What happens when you spin eggs in space?

We'll talk about the condition known as dissociative identity disorder.

We'll take a look at two graphic novels that approach science from a different direction.

We talk with Anna Deavere Smith about her one-woman show that gives a voice to patients and doctors around the country.

Earlier this week, an amateur astronomer in Australia spotted signs of a massive impact on the planet Jupiter. We'll talk with him about his find, and about the international community of astronomical observers.