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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face.

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Latest Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science transcripts

Book Club Edition: Dinner With an Astronaut by Leroy Chiao

October 16, 2026

Mat Kaplan (0:03)

Pull up a chair for Dinner with an Astronaut, as we welcome Leroy Chiao to this month's Planetary Radio Book Club Edition.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. Dinner with an Astronaut? That's the title of Leroy Chiao's great book that takes us course by course through his remarkable life, a life that has taken him from eating peanut butter and spam sandwiches as…

Leroy Chiao (1:56)

Well, it's my pleasure and hello everyone. Glad to be here.

Mat Kaplan (2:00)

Great pleasure to welcome you to the book club. And also a great pleasure to have enjoyed this book. As a lot of people, a lot of our members have been telling us they did. You're the CEO of your own group that you call One Orbit.

And we can talk a little bit more about it later, but it's really very closely tied to the work that you do nowadays, isn't it?

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