Monthly Archives: April 2016

Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO 9.13 – #VoteForSpace

The latest episode of the TMRO.tv live show is now available in the archive: #VoteForSpace – TMRO

This week we bring on guest John Benac, Managing Director of Vote For Space. For more information on Vote For Space hit up their website at http://www.voteforspace.com

News topics discussed:

* Russian billionaire devotes $100 million to star flight initiative
* Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum
* Binary star discovered approaching galactic escape velocity
* BEAM installed on ISS
* Bigelow Aerospace partners with ULA to launch private space habitats
* Chain of onboard failures dooms Hitomi – Kepler Returns

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Space Arts

Rik Allen creates sci-fi glass sculptures

Glass artist Rik Allen specializes in sci-fi space inspired sculptures: Area glass artist making art of rocket science – Connecticut Post.

Allen made his first glass spaceship in 1998 as a gift for his nephew.

Since then, he has built spaceships, pieces of space travel equipment and astronaut-like figures of various sizes. He’s built them out of glass and some metals.

Check out his portfolio here. 

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History

The Kettering Satellite Tracking Group

Check out this interesting history of the Kettering Satellite Tracking Group, a club of students organized by teacher Geoffrey Perry at the Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire, England during the Cold War: Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret – BBC News.

The group monitored Soviet radio communications dealing with the space program and made a number of revelations about Soviet space activities. For example, in 1966 they were the first to reveal publicly the location of the Plesetsk launch site in north Russia.

See also

Rockets, Space industry and microgravity R&D

Videos: Rocket landings update

Michael Clark gives an update on recent rocket developments by Blue Origin and SpaceX:

Here are scenes of the Port Canaveral dock where the SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on a droneship was prepared this week for transport to Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (video via www.USLaunchReport.com):

Rockets, Space industry

Video: ‘SpaceX Falcon 9 Development Supercut’

A nicely made video compilation of SpaceX Falcon 9 test flights that led to the successful landings of the first stage booster during orbital payload launches: