The “band” is back together to review some breaking news on the launch date for NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. We talk about the activities on the International Space Station, where NASA Astronauts Chris Cassidy performed a 6-hour 7-minute spacewalk to replace a set of lithium-ion batteries on the facility’s S6 truss. Completing this work will leave the ISS in an exemplary power configuration for the remainder of its operational life.
Attention turns to a Pre-spacewalk briefing NASA’s Kenny Todd, and Steve Stich had good words on how well the SpaceX Crew Dragon is performing for its first-time on-orbit and information on when perhaps the Crew-1 mission could fly. Also included was a status on where Boeing was with remediation work on the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
There was an abrupt “changing of the guard” at NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations office. Kathy Lueders, the Director of the Commercial Crew Program, was promoted to Associate Administrator for the Human Operations and Exploration Directorate replacing Douglas Loverro. He resigned under a ‘dark cloud’ for what he called ‘a mistake’ in his final letter to the HEO organization. That “mistake” is now under the microscope of the NASA Inspector General’s office.
The NASA Headquarters Building in Washington DC has a new name; we tell you who it is and why that honor was bestowed, plus give you a little hint about another historical figure of note we’re going to discuss on a future show.
Our grand ‘pundit of podcasts’, Mark Ratterman has a NASA Podcast that you may wish to add to your diet of space news and information: NASA Johnson’s “Houston We Have a Podcast.”
Want all of the Earth Observation satellite data that NASA, Europe and Japan have gathered about how the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted socioeconomic activity all in one place? There’s now an appfor that! Introduced by all three space agencieson June 24th2020, it aggregates all of the data tracking air and water quality plus agricultural and economic activity all in one place.
Show recorded 6-28-2020
Host: Sawyer Rosenstein
Panelists: Gene Mikulka, Mark Ratterman, Kat Robison
Episode 432: The Taming of the Dragon
Episode 431: Jumping to Earth and Beyond
Episode 430: My Science in Space, Ready, Set, Go!
Episode 429: Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue
Episode 428: Brushing Up on MacGyver
Episode 427: Winking at the Moon
Episode 426: The Coronation of 'Coronation'
Episode 425: Super Successes and Fantastic Failures
Episode 424: Geoff Rocks Around the Clock
Episode 423: From SpaceX to Spiders on Station
Episode 422: And the Rocket's Red Glare
Episode 421: News and Inside Discovery Views-Part 2
Episode 420: News and Inside Discovery Views-Part 1
Episode 419: Aerial Displays and Wing-Dings
Episode 418: An Opportunity for Curiosity
Episode 417: Release the Fire-Breathing 'Dragon'
Episode 416: A Six Pack of Thrust
Episode 415: What's 'Mine' is 'Ores' in Space
Episode 414: Space Shuttle Shuffle Special
Episode 413: Station Science Scoop
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