Space Arts, Space Music

More artists needed for space + Astronaut Karen Nyberg will be drawing and knitting on the ISS

Chris Hadfield’s music communicates a broader, deeper expression of what spaceflight is like than the usual astronaut interview. Michael Belfiore highlights the need for more people with artistic talents to go to space and to use those talents to communicate to the public what it is like there: Chris Hadfield shows why we need the arts in space – Michael Belfiore

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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg won’t be singing but she has other creative activities planned for her spare time on the ISS: NASA Astronaut Packs Crafts for Space Station Trip – Space.com

Science and Technology

Sci-Tech: Update on General Fusion

The Canadian based company General Fusion, which has gotten funding from a variety of sources including Jeff Bezos, seems to be making good progress with its innovative design for a fusion power system:

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Space Settlement

Space settlement: An interview with Al Globus + Settlements need kids

Al Globus, who has the website Orbital Space Settlement, discusses the “three paths to space settlement” during an interview at the Space Access 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona last April:  Al Globus – Space Settlement – Moonandback.

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If having and raising healthy children in the low Mars gravity is not possible, then bases there will never become settlements: Mars One: What’s the Point? – Citizens in Space.

Exoplanets, General, SpaceCasts

Space on the John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman & Hotel Mars, May 21-23, 2013

Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. See the iTunes free Podcast for links to the latest shows.

Tuesday 05/21/13 Batchelor Hour 4 : Science and politics:

  1.  Climate scientists are forced to revise their climate models because of lack of warming for 15 years.
  2. Democratic senator blames Republicans for Oklahoma tornado, caused by global warming.

Thursday: Space:

  1. Mice and gerbils die on Russian 30 day biology spaceflight.
  2. The impact of a 100 pound meteorite on the Moon produced the brightest flash on record.
  3. Opportunity now has the American record for the longest travel on another planet.
  4. Great Britain gets its first official astronaut.
  5. Scaled Composites blows up a SpaceShipTwo engine on purpose during testing.

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William  (Bill) Borucki, Principle Investigator for the Kepler Space Telescope, talked with Batchelor and David Livingston during the latest Mars Hotel segment. They discussed the status of Kepler after the loss of its reaction wheel and about the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF):  John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 5-22-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

Eyes in the Sky

Video: Astronaut Mario Runco on earth photography from the ISS

In this video, NASA astronaut Mario Runco talks about some of the subtleties involved in taking photographs of the Earth from the International Space Station:

Everyone can participate in space