interview

Interview about cosmic origins with American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Interviewed on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer regarding the 2003 close encounter with Mars.

If you were stranded on a desert island, what ten things do you want with you?

Host Robert L. Kuhn leads a discussion about life in the universe and the consequences of discovering life elsewhere in the universe.

A discussion and tour of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium. Joining Charlie are Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, James Stuart Polshek, the architect behind the planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist who will serve as director, and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine.

A conversation with Ed Weiler, director of NASA's origin program, Michael Lemonick, author of "Other Worlds" and Neil Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, about the possibility of life on other planets and NASA's program that explores the question.

A conversation with Dr. Richard Berendzen of American University and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium about NASA's trip to Mars and the significance of analyzing the planet's rock samples.