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 531: The Gravitas of "Gravity"
Episode 530: Lots of Launches
Episode 529: A Commercial Success
Episode 528: Cosmonaut Needed
Episode 527: Relaunching Atlantis-Part 2
Episode 526: Relaunching Atlantis-Part 1
Episode 525: Six Degrees of Space Station
Episode 524: Space Shuttle for Sale
Episode 523: Returning Through the 'Cosmos'
Episode 522: Stories Launched Straight from the Pad
Episode 521: The Powerfully Patriotic Atlantis
Episode 520: Blinded by the Flights
Episode 519 - Different Wavelengths
Episode 518: Lots to See at SpaceFest V Part 2
Episode 517: Lots to See at SpaceFest V
Episode 516: A Quick Debris Avoidance Maneuver
Episode 515: Live Landings and Listener Letters
Episode 514: Lots of Commercial and a Lunar Infomercial
Episode 513: The Awesome Antares
Episode 512: Can Antares Reach "Orbital" Velocity?
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