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NPR's Larry Abramson reports on Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist. Tito returns to earth this weekend after a week's stay at the international space station. NASA was opposed to Tito's trip, which he arranged with the Russian space agency. But NASA still claims the day will come when they too will be allowing tourists into space.

Roberto Carlos Lange, who performs under the moniker Helado Negro, shares his thoughts on his new album, astrology, and the beauty of nature.

Isaac stars in The Card Counter and Scenes from a Marriage. John Powers reviews a new documentary about the Velvet Underground. After years of trying to be likable, Katie Couric is letting that go.

Scott with some thoughts about former Senator Bob Kerrey's admission this week that he may have been responsible for the death of civilians while fighting in Vietnam.

Scott reads mail from listeners.

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton, Jr., continues in Birmingham, Alabama today. He's accused of participating in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in 1963 which killed four black girls. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott who is covering the trial, where the prosecution has wrapped up.

Lisa talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein about the latest efforts by Egyptians and Jordanians to forge a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.

Lisa talks with three foreign journalists about their perceptions of President Bush's first hundred days in office. Yoshi Komori is from the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun; Jose Carreno is from Mexico's El Universal; and Siegfried Buschschluter is from Deutschland Radio in Germany.

Civil rights pioneer Leon Sullivan died last week at the age of 78. The American Baptist minister devised the so-called Sullivan Principles, which helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new revelations about earth's beginnings, by scientists in Antarctica.