SpaceX has added a new model rocket kit based on the latest Falcon 9 rocket design: Falcon 9 and Fairing Flying Model Rocket Kit – Featured
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I recently wrote about the LittleBits SpaceKit: Assemble your own space program that allows you to assembly many types of fun space-inspired gadgets from a set of electronic modules. Here’s an article about the SpaceKit: Build a Spacecraft at Home with NASA-Approved Space Kit – Space.com
The Kunsthaus Lempertz auction house is having a Spacesale in Brussels of a Soviet era [twice flown] space capsule and two space suits currently owned by the company Excalibur Almaz, based in Isle of Man: About — Spacesale
On 7 May the Space Capsule of the type Vozvrashchayemyi Apparat (VA) will be auctioned at an estimated value of $1-2 million, together with two historic Sokol KV2 spacesuits (estimated value $80,000) at the newly opened Lempertz branch in Brussels. From the 26 April the VA can be viewed at the historic building on Rue du Grand Cerf.
More about the auction at Used spacecraft for sale: Soviet-era space capsule up for auction in Belgium – collectSPACE.
Here’s a video of a reception at the auction site:
Here is the latest episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.
In this show Amanda reports on the following topics:
01:32 — 02:48 SpaceX Falcon carries a Dragon to the ISS
02:49 — 05:12 The Falcon first Stage becoming reusable
05:13 — 06:17 Earth-sized Exoplanet found in habitable Zone
06:18 — 08:14 A Comet aims at Mars
08:15 — 09:24 A Mars Wind Cleansing
Previous Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows are available on the HobbySpace Youtube Channel.
These videos are intended as educational programs and as demonstrations of an experimental technique for generating animated presentations. The show was generated autonomously by software according to a text script. The project is described in the Virtual Producer whitepaper (Release 1.1, Oct.2013, pdf). For further information contact info@binary-space.com.
More space policy/politics related links:
Webcasts:
Rod Pyle, Sunday, 5-4-14 | Thespaceshow’s Blog – Pyle discussed space policy, reusability, and his new book, Innovation The NASA Way.
I mentioned recently plans for a concert involving an ISS astronaut and Texas music students. The event took place on May 2nd and here is a video of it:
Students from Pearl Hall Elementary school joined Astronaut Cady Coleman, Houston Symphony violinist Sergei Galperin, and Bella Galia founder & violinist Kenji Williams in a live linkup between the Johnson Space Center and the International Space Station. Expedition 39 crew member Koichi Wakata joined Kenji Williams for a space-Earth duet of Gagaku music.