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 708: Contrasts
Episode 707: First Harvest
Episode 706: Lost and Found
Episode 705: From Soyuz to Solar Satellites
Episode 704: A Lack of Progress
Episode 703: Don't Shoot the MESSENGER
Episode 702: Much Ado About the Moon
Episode 701: Return to Flight
Episode 621: The Dawn of Orion
Episode 620: Catching a Comet
Episode 619: Preparations and Evaluations
Episode 618: The Future Belongs to the Brave
Episode 617: The Loss of Antares
Episode 616: Here Comes the Judge
Episode 615: Hashtags for Space Outreach
Episode 614: NASA's Flying Saucer
Episode 613: All the SpaceFest-ivities Part 2
Episode 612: All the SpaceFest-ivities Part 1
Episode 611: That's My Shuttle
Episode 610: This, That and the Other
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