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Videos: TMRO Orbit 11.02 – Getting to know SpaceMike

January 16, 2018 TopSpacer

The latest episode of TMRO.tv is now available: Getting to know SpaceMike – Orbit 11.02 – TMRO

Cariann sits down with our own Space Mike. We get a blast from the past and some inspiring insight in the present. Want to know how Space Mike became our rocket specialist? This is your episode!

Space news and launches reviewed:

SpaceShipTwo performs glide test
Blue Origin engine development going very well
New Rocket Lab Launch Window

SpaceX Launches Zuma mission
China Launches 2nd set of SuperView Satellites
China Launches Beidou Navigation Satellites
PSLV Returns to Flight with 31 satellites
Delta IV Launches NROL-47

A TMRO short report:

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Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO Orbit 11.01 – Looking forward to 2018

January 13, 2018 TopSpacer

Here is the first TMRO.tv live program of the year: Looking forward to 2018 – Orbit 11.01 – TMRO

Benjamin, Cariann, Mike and Jared take a look at all of the upcoming missions slated for 2018. If you thought 2017 was a great year for space, just wait until you hear what is planned for this year!

News & Launches:

Tabby’s Star’s Weird Behavior Is Dust, Not Aliens
Arecibo Pings Asteroid Phaethon

Soyuz MS-07 Launches 3 crew members to ISS
JAXA H2-A rocket launches GCOM-C and a test Satellite
Falcon 9 Launches Iridium-4 Mission
Long March 2D Launches 2nd identical land imaging satellite
Long March 2C launches 3 Yaogan Satellites on Christmas
Zenit 3F rocket launches Angola’s first satellite

Here are couple of recent TMRO short reports:

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General, History, Spaceflight & Parabolic Flight

Astronaut John Young dies at age of 87

January 6, 2018 TopSpacer

John W. Young, one of the most accomplished astronauts in US history, passed away today at the age of 87. He flew two Gemini missions, two Apollo missions including a landing on the Moon as commander of Apollo 16, and two Shuttle missions, including as commander of the program’s first flight on Shuttle Columbia.

From Lightfoot’s statement:

“Between his service in the U.S. Navy, where he retired at the rank of captain, and his later work as a civilian at NASA, John spent his entire life in service to our country. His career included the test pilot’s dream of two ‘first flights’ in a new spacecraft — with Gus Grissom on Gemini 3, and as Commander of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission, which some have called ‘the boldest test flight in history.’ He flew as Commander on Gemini 10, the first mission to rendezvous with two separate spacecraft the course of a single flight. He orbited the Moon in Apollo 10, and landed there as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission. On STS-9, his final spaceflight, and in an iconic display of test pilot ‘cool,’ he landed the space shuttle with a fire in the back end.