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 1503: Of Spaceplanes and Starships
Episode 1502: 50-50 and More
Episode 1501: New Season, New Era
Episode 1407: The ”Endurance” of Commercial Crew
Episode 1406: Launchapalooza
Episode 1405: Launch Weather for the Win(d)
Episode 1404: A New Era in Commercial Space
Episode 1403: The First Four Miles to the Lunar Surface
Episode 1402: The Heavens Above, The Troubles Below
Episode 1401: Rockets and Future Visions
Episode 1306: Zero-G and I Feel Fine - Mission: Astro Access
Episode 1305: Space is Open for Business
Episode 1304: Billionaire Battle?
Episode 1303: Rocket Roulette
Episode 1302: Turn it Up to SN-11
Episode 1301: Three Cheers for Mars
Episode 1207: Farewell 2020
Episode 1206: All For One, Crew-1 For All
Episode 1205: "Scrubtember" Leads to "Grabtober"
Episode 1204: From Liftoff to Splashdown
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