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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.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with Asian fusion singer, Sheila Chandra, about her latest CD This Sentence is True. Chandra experiments with the voice as an instrument and blends vocal traditions from American gospel and English folk, among other styles.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about the Pope's upcoming trip to Greece. The Pontiff's planned visit -- the first from a Roman Catholic leader in nearly 13 centuries -- has upset the country's Orthodox majority. Greece is the first stop on the Pope's pilgrimage to retrace the travels of the Apostle Paul.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with the president of the United Nations Association of the USA, William Luers, about the United States' loss of its seat on the U.N.'s Commission for Human Rights. The U.N. Economic and Social Council voted yesterday not to re-elect the U.S. to the commission. This is the first time since the commission's creation in 1947 that the U.S. has not held a position on it.

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.

Eric Engleman reports on the first trial of a high-ranking Russian officer for a war-related crime against a Chechen. While there have been hundreds of reported human rights abuses in the Russian war on Chechnya, most haven't been prosecuted.

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.

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.

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