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Host Dave Schlom helps profile two NASA missions, one about to begin and one that has just been completed.

Fire Victim Trust will pay a higher percentage of some Camp Fire victims’ claims. Also, the city of Chico names a service provider for its homeless shelter site and California state lawmakers attempt to terminate the state's COVID-19 emergency declaration.

Blue Dot's signature Apollo@50 series continues with the fifth lunar landing mission, Apollo 16. In April of 1972, the crew of Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke, and Command Module Pilot Thomas "Ken" Mattingly set out for the most ambitious science mission to date to explore the mysteries of the Descartes Highlands.

A UC San Francisco study finds people with psychiatric disorders face a heightened risk of breakthrough COVID infections. Also, state regulators recommend against listing the western Joshua tree as endangered, and a poll finds Californians are divided on the state’s top issues.

The requirement for schoolchildren to get the COVID-19 vaccine is being held off for another year. Also, the city of Redding has begun to wrap its power poles with fire-resistant material, and California’s ongoing drought is expected to deliver a tough financial blow this year to the nation’s largest agricultural economy.

Chico City Council selects new district map. Also, the man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Oroville appeared in court Wednesday, and Sacramento police now believe at least five people fired guns during the mass shooting downtown.

Rising gas prices and the pandemic boost e-bike popularity. Also, a new poll shows California voters support more protections for farmworkers in wildfire evacuation zones, and a state law enforcement commission held a special meeting Thursday on police misconduct.

Low snowpack levels at the Klamath National Forest could affect nearby communities. Also, the Plumas County Library in Greenville aims to help with Dixie Fire recovery, and lawmakers in the Sacramento area want to speed up homeless encampment removals.

In preparation for California Native Plant Week 2022 (April 16 - 23), celebrating the botanical biodiversity of the California Floristic Region, Rose and Deborah join Cultivating Place to share more about their new educational and advocacy initiative, Saging the World, on behalf of California’s iconic native white sage, Saliva apiana, sacred to the Indigenous cultures of what is now Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.

Host Dave Schlom gets to talk to his teenage crush, English vocalist Annie Haslam from the progressive/art-rock band Renaissance.