The Kepler Spacecraft ran into trouble last Friday but thanks to heroic effort by the team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kepler’s search for Exoplanets can resume. We discuss the SpaceX Dragon Cargo Resupply Mission 8 and it’s cargo specifically the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to be attached to the International Space Station. SpaceX also proved at least part of their business model by landing the first stage of their Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship. We discuss the implications. At the 32nd Space Symposium, United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace announced a partnership to loft Bigelow’s B330 expandable modules in 2020, thus creating a new independent space station separate from the ISS without NASA. The team looks at this groundbreaking deal. ULA was also making news this week at the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), presenting it’s blueprint for a cis-lunar economy once more independent of NASA. All of this looks at space not just a place for exploration but economic opportunity, the team discusses and explores what a future could look like.
In the second half of the show, the team opens up part one of it’s NEAF roundup with David Shoemaker of the Advanced LIGO Project and Hans Koeningsmann of SpaceX The second half of our NEAF roundup will be coming up in Episode 806.
Host: Sawyer Rosenstein
Panel Members: Kassy Tamanini & Gene Mikulka
Episode 413: Station Science Scoop
Episode 412: The Power of Pluto
Episode 411: The '411' on Space News
Episode 410: Impressive Station Stories
Episode 409: Launch Madness
Episode 408: Green Pigs...In...Space
Episode 407: Commercial Crafts and Cracked Codes
Episode 406-B: The Tale of the Tossed Tribbles
Episode 406-A: LCROSS the Universe
Episode 405: They Became Astronauts, ASCAN You
Episode 404: Destinations, Debris, and Declassifications
Episode 403: The
Episode 402: The Sky is Falling...Again!
Episode 401: Curiosity About Curiosity
Episode 346: Mars or Bust
Episode 345: Sparking 'Curiosity' in Space Science
Episode 344: 100 'Miles' Above the Earth
Episode 343: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Spooky Space
Episode 342: Landing a New Home
Episode 341: Deep 'Space.com' Travel
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