Space on the John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman + Hotel Mars

Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. See the iTunes free Podcast for links to the latest shows.

Tuesday 04/30/13 Batchelor Hour 4 :

  • Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo flies under rocket power for first time
  • Opportunity rover went into safe mode during period Mars was blocked by the Sun
  • Russian Progress cargo vehicle successfully docked with the ISS despite antenna deployment failure
  • Russian Soyuz prices raised to $70M per seat

Thursday 05/02/13 Batchelor Hour 4

  • Mars rovers and orbiters back in view
  • Near collsion of Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and a Soviet-era spysat
  • Russian Progress cargo ship may have damaged docking system on ISS
  • NASA pays Russian for 6 more Soyuz seats due to delays in commercial crew program caused by Congressional funding cuts

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On this week’s Hotel Mars segment, Jeff Foust talks with David Livingston and John Batchelor about the recent Antares Orbital Sciences launch and about the NASA commercial cargo and crew program: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 5-1-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.