Patrick recently joined us for AOL Live's The Agenda - a weekly lively debate about who and what is making the news with your chance to ask the questions that matter. He talked about the recent Eros asteroid landing, the risk of asteriods crashing into the Earth and his hopes for space travel in the future.
Science fiction does have a habit of turning into science fact.
Welcome once more to the Agenda. We are lucky to have with us tonight one of the world's foremost astronomers who is no doubt as excited as the rest of us at the successful landing on the asteroid Eros by a NASA satellite. This is very major first. It is the first time a controlled landing has been made upon a small body. Up to now landings have been made only on the Moon, Mars and Venus and a crash landing on Jupiter.