Yuri Gagarin was born 80 years ago today. Michael Shinabery opens a two part report on Gagarin’s famous flight to space: Soviets Sketchy on Details While Sending First Man into Space – Moonandback –
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s capsule on display in
a museum at Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.
The latest Spacevidcast live show is now available in the archive: Who owns the moon? – Spacevidcast
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In this episode we talk about cosmic property rights. Who owns the moon? What about Mars? Can a company legally mine an asteroid?
In space news: ULA and SpaceX go head to head at a Senate hearing committee, how tensions with Russia can negatively impact the US space programs, COSMOS, a new space plane is being developed and the original space shuttle wooden mockup is moving.
You can watch the full Senate sub-committee video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0-S…
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Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.
ANS 068 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – March 8, 2014:
* ISS HamTV Success (3-8-2014)
* ISS Ham Video now installed and ready for commissioning (3-6-2014)
* Satellite TLE Object ID’s
* FUNcube-1 (AO-73) 100+ days in orbit
* Mass Launch of 437 MHz Satellites
* Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL)— A 30th Birthday
Celebration For UoSAT-2, OSCAR-11
* Two Close Calls For ZACUBE-1 CubeSat
* OSCAR DEMO and Youth Forum MAY 3, 2014
* Upcoming AMSAT Events
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts from All Over
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More news:
The sun continued its resurgence in February:
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You can check out the state of the sun and space weather each day at the HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather page.
Sky and Telescope magazine backs Uwingu’s Mars Crater naming project: Name a Mars Crater with Uwingu – SkyandTelescope.com.
It’s for a cause. Also unlike the name-a-star scams, Uwingu’s name-a-crater scheme isn’t purely for profit. Half the proceeds go to the Uwingu Fund, which promises to support space education and research. The other half goes to running the company, which has no paid staff and a few paid contractors, such as for website development.
So far, the Uwingu Fund has funded eight starter grants of at least $1,000 each, including grants to the Astronomers Without Borders, the International Dark Sky Association, and the Galileo Teacher Training Program. (The fund also supported SETI’s Allen Telescope Array as part of the Indiegogo campaign.)
