Here is the full CBS 60 Minutes segment on asteroids that was shown on Sunday evening (see earlier post):
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Spacevidcast: “Cosmic Recap”
Spacevidcast posts a new Spacepod video update with a focus on the many recent rocket launches around the world:
The Space Show this week
Here are the guests and topics for The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome Dr. Gil Levin back to the show to continue discussing the possibilities of life on Mars and new analysis of his Viking data.
2. Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): Open Lines. First time callers welcome. All space and STEM topics welcome.
3. Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PDT (11:30- 1 PM CDT, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EDT): We welcome back DENNIS WINGO to discuss important current development in space policy, commercial space, and more.
4. Sunday, Oct.13, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT). We welcome author LEE BILLINGS to discuss his new book, Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Star Lee Billings is a journalist and author writing about the intersections of science, technology, and culture for Nature, Nautilus, New Scientist, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and many other publications.
See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
“LEGO Space” – new book on modeling space hardware
The book LEGO Space by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard : Space Exploration Looks Even More Awesome in Lego – Wired Science
The bulk of Reid and Goddard’s book is devoted to a science-fiction exploration of mankind’s potential future among the stars. The Lego mining astronauts of tomorrow find themselves building moon and Mars bases, working with intelligent robots, constructing wormholes to distant worlds, and even battling evil aliens and mad scientists that have infiltrated their ranks. All of this is illustrated in detailed photographs of Lego brick spaceships and stations. There’s even instructions on how to build your own version of some of the vehicles.
Two pages from LEGO Space.
Kickstarter for PocketQuebes – pocket sized satellites
The Glasgow based PocketQube Shop has opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund their PocketQubes sats: Want to build a satellite but don’t have a NASA sized budget? by PocketQube Shop — Kickstarter
PocketQubes are tiny satellites which are small enough to fit in your Pocket. They are 5cm cubes and you can stack them up to create larger satellites, for example 1.5 PocketQubes or 1.5p and 2.5p. Why go small? They are cheapest fully functional class of satellite to launch.
The standard was proposed by Professor Bob Twiggs, creator of the revolutionary Cubesat form factor and voted as one of 10 space professionals “That made a Difference in Space” (The other two selected from the United States were Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and the US President, Barack Obama).
At the end of November the first 4 PocketQubes will be launched into Orbit from Russia! There will be more going next year.
This Kickstarter is focused upon structures, the building blocks of any satellite. We want to enable as many teams as possible to start designing, building and launching their own satellite today!!
That is why we are offering you a chance to support the NewSpace revolution, with T-Shirts, 3D Printed Models and Aluminium Structures for your first satellite project!