Monthly Archives: January 2017

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

TMRO – Orbit 10.02: International Space University

The latest live episode of TMRO.tv is now available in the archive:

Cariann has a live interview with TMRO’s own Lisa Stojanovski talking about International Space University. What’s a typical day look like? What are the types of activities available to do while at ISU? And what is Lisa’s favorite thing about space?

Space News topics discussed:

Planet and Terra Bella may merge
Moon Express fully funded for Google Lunar X Prize bid
Station Astronauts Complete 2nd Battery Swap Spacewalk
Planet Earth observed through telescope orbiting Mars
Progress MS-04 failure investigation ends

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History, Living in Space

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan has died

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan has died at the age of 82. He became the last person to have walked on the Moon when he climbed up the ladder of the lunar module. He and Harrison Schmitt had spent three days on the Moon from Dec.11 to Dec. 14, 1972.

For more about Cernan, see:

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with American flag on the Moon, December 1972

A happy moment in the Apollo 17 mission when Cernan and Schmitt strolled on the Moon:

Here is a NASA documentary about the Apollo 17 mission:

Update: A new NASA video about Cernan:

Some thoughts on why we haven’t gotten back to the Moon since Cernan: The passing of Gene Cernan reminds us how far we haven’t come | Ars Technica.

Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week – Jan.16.2017

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, Jan. 16, 2017: 2-3:30 pm PST (5-6:30 pm EST, 4-5:30 pm CST): We welcome back COURTNEY STADD to discuss presidential transitions regarding space matters.

2. Tuesday, Jan. 17 2017: 7-8:30 pm PST, 10-11:30 pm EST, 9-10:30 pm CST: We welcome DR. GEOFFREY LANDIS regarding his innovative work on laser drives, interstellar probes and more.

3. Friday, Jan. 20, 2016: 9:30-11 am PST; (12:30-2 pm EST; 11:30 am – 1 pm CST) No show today due to presidential inauguration.

4. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017: 12-1:30 pm PST (3-4:30 pm EST, 2-3:30 5 pm CST):We welcome back DR. LARRY KUZNETZ regarding the Mars spacesuit and his new class on spacesuits at the University of California.

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.

The Space Show - David Livingston
David Livingston
Events, Rockets

Videos: SpaceX launches 10 satellites and lands booster stage

Today SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The first stage of the rocket also came back down for a landing onto a ocean platform ship. This was the first mission for SpaceX since the explosion on September 1st during a test on a pad at Cape Canaveral.

There will be 6 more F9 launches of Iridium NEXT satellites over the next year and a half or so. The satellites will replace the current set of aging Iridium satellites and provide improved global satellite telephone and data services as well as add new services such as aircraft tracking over the entire world including the oceans.

Here are videos of today’s launch and landing:

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Education, Space Arts, Space participation

Low Earth Orbit Art Challenge – A student space art competition

There is still time to submit your artwork to the LEO Art Challenge, which is open to “All full-time students at any grade level between the ages of 13 and 22 are eligible”. It is sponsored by Enterprise In Space (EIS) and is a program of the National Space Society.

Low Earth Orbit Art Challenge

Imagine & share with us the exciting environment of Low Earth Orbit in one of many ways.  

Are you ready for the next great adventure?  To mark the first steps of the National Space Society’s Enterprise In Space (E(S) program that will send over 100 student experiments into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), we are offering this worldwide search to find a group of kindred spirits to embark on this exciting adventure challenge. 

We want to see what a low Earth orbit adventure means to you!   Imagine yourself as a professional engineer, designer, advertiser, writer, or artist that has been hired to create promotional materials about LEO and its environment.  What topic or aspect about LEO would your choose to promote?  What format would you use to present it to your customer?   Show us, and you could become part of history as one of the first groups of students to win the chance to virtually make this incredible journey into low Earth orbit. 

You can be one of the first EIS virtual crew members!

Check out the prizes here.

Submission deadline is January 31, 2017 at 23:59 UT.