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It's Space Week!

KTAL-LP 101.5 FM will be celebrating Space Week in conjunction with the Las Cruces Space Festival, which runs April 12-14. 

On Saturday, April 14, at 2:30 we will make our first remote broadcast from the Rio Grande Theater, when the festival concludes with a full day of events downtown. Listen in!

Beginning Monday April 9 through Friday April 13, we will air special science programming from 11:00a – Noon each day.
The daily programs will be hosted by Nan Rubin and Vince “Dr. Science” Gutschick and are being supported in part by a grant from the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium. Live and recorded guests will be scientists, researchers, educators and others involved with such topics as satellites; space exploration; and STEM education.
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Invited guests include:
  • Dr. Abdessattar Abdelkefi: Aerospace robotics and controls
  • Dr. Nancy Chanover: Planets and infrared imaging
  • Dr. Jason Jackiewicz: Solar seimsmology
  • Dr. Isabella Mariotto: Satellite remote sensing
  • Dr. Jim Murphy: Mars climatology
  • Dr. Beth O’Leary: Space Archaeology
  • Dr. Tom Schmugge: Satellite remote sensing
  • Dr. Junming Wang: Remote sensing and ground-truthing
Here's the control room. All of the equipment is installed and working.

Tickets to the “Red, White and Blues” Festival

​On Wednesday, April 18th, on the Shades of the Blues program, broadcast from 7pm – 9pm, we will be giving away a pair of tickets to the “Red, White and Blues” Festival, which takes place Saturday, April 21st at St. Claire Winery, 1720 Avenida de Mesilla. The Festival is brought to you by the Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Society.

​To win a pair of tickets, listen for “My Baby’s Gone”, by John Nemeth, the festival’s headliner.

 Click here for contest rules.

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