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Star Gazers STGZ446 January 6-12, 2025 “A Mars, Venus, Saturn, Moon Meetup! Jan 2025”

A Flitch beam is installed. Tree maintenance is performed. Sheathing systems are explored.

New rafters get a decorative flair like the old rafters. New light in the antique windows.

Mark repairs sandstone steps; Ross talks solar scams; Nathan installs an awning.

Mark talks about bricks; Richard explains solderless connections; Tom shingles a roof.

Sustainable grass alternatives; common types of nail designs; brightening up a driveway.

Malcolm X's diaries, photos, letters and other items -- saved from the auction block last year -- have found a new home at the New York Public Library. The papers of the late civil rights and religious leader "help reconnect the icon with the human being," says Howard Dodson, director of the library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Hear an extended version of his interview with NPR's Bob Edwards and see photos of some of the items.

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded rocket plane to complete two trips to the edge of space within a two-week window. The feat makes the craft the apparent winner of a $10-million award known as the X-Prize, designed to encourage space tourism. Hear NPR's David Kestenbaum.

Star Gazers #STGZ215 1 minute version June 6-12, 2022 “Back to Back Supermoons 2022”

The Konami code won't save The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta as they take on a true/false quiz about video games.