6pm Hour – Spending New Year’s on the moon.

By News Staff

Posted Jan 3, 2012 02:34:09 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Rob Thacker from SMU’s Astronomy department joins us to chat about the New Year’s Eve mission to the moon. Cecil our sometimes rowdy sports fan joins us to chat. John Boileau pops by with a check back on this day in the history. Ice fishing season opened over the weekend…. yup, not a whole lot of ice out there. Tony Rodgers with the hunters and anglers federation joins us.

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