Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO 9.26 – NASA’s Lunar Flashlight

TMRO.tv has posted a video of its latest live program: NASA’s Lunar Flashlight – TMRO

Dr. Barbara Cohen leads the planetary science group at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Currently, Dr. Cohen is a Principal Investigator on multiple NASA Science Mission Directorate projects and is a Co-Investigator on several spacecraft and instrument proposal teams, including the Mars Exploration Rovers (Opportunity) and Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity). She is the Principal Investigator for the Lunar Flashlight mission, which will send a cubesat to the Moon in 2018 to search for water ice frost.

News topics discussed:

* Ariane 5 launches Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 36
* Exoplanet Discovered Around Nearest Star, But It’s A Terrible Place For Life To Be
* SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth from ISS
* NASA Hears From Lost Spacecraft After 2 Years
* Astronauts install new docking adapter
* Juno To Make Closest Approach to Jupiter Today

TMRO is viewer supported:

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Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week – Aug.29.2016

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

1. Monday, August 29, 2016: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome back KERI KUKRAL for Raw Science TV updates.

2. Tuesday, August 30, 2016: 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT) We welcome back DR. DORIT DONOVIEL to discuss the Vision Impairment and Intracranial Pressure issue (VIIP).

3. Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016: 9:30-10:30 AM PDT (12:30-1:30 PM EDT,): We welcome back DR. PAT HYNES to discuss the upcoming ISPCS 2016 (Int. Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight) in Las Cruces, NM.

4. Friday, Sept. 2, 2016: 9:30-11AM PDT; (12:30-2 PM EDT; 11:30 AM – 1 PM CDT) We welcome DR. GRACE WOLF-CHASE, Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium.

5. Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016: 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT): NO SHOW TODAY DUE TO LABOR DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

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.

Space Music

Space music: STS9 releases the album “The Universe Inside”

The electronic music group STS9 has a new album out called  The Universe Inside, which was prompted by two special gold records : Stream: STS9’s new album The Universe Inside, plus read a Q&A with the band – Consequence of Sound 

They were inspired by the twin Golden Records included on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, on which were the sounds that defined what it meant to be human. As such, The Universe Inside “is an album about human identity and the magical truth of who we are, where we’re going, and our place in the Universe,” as a press release puts it.

Here is a video of one of the tracks on the album:

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Living in Space, Space Systems, SpaceCasts

Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report + Dragon returns to earth – Aug.26.2016

Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on recent activities related to the ISS:

Today the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft returned from the Int. Space Station, where it had been berthed since July, for a safe landing in the Pacific:  SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down with Crucial NASA Research Samples – NASA

PacificLanding

This video shows the departure of the Dragon from the ISS early this morning:

Future space, Space Systems

Videos: Presentations at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program held its annual NIAC Symposium this week in Raleigh, North Carolina. Videos of the presentations are now available on Livestream. (See also postings for previous NIAC symposiums.)

Here is a sampling of the sessions:

  • Joshua Rovey, University of Missouri, Rolla, Experimental Demonstration and System Analysis for Plasmonic Force Propulsion;
  • Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Directed Energy for Interstellar Study;
  • David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters

  • Michael VanWoerkom, Exoterra Resource, LLC , NIMPH: Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester;
  • Stephanie Thomas, Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander;
  • Jonathan Sauder, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE);
  • Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center, Urban biomining meets printable electronics: end-to-end destination biological recycling and reprinting

More about Stephanie Thomas’s presentation at NIAC Pluto mission talk now available online – Princeton Satellite Systems.

  • Robert Youngquist, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cryogenic Selective Surfaces;
  • Melville Ulmer, Northwestern University, Further Development of Aperture: A Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements;
  • Robert Skelton, Texas A&M University, Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat

  • Bruce Wiegmann, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System “HERTS”;
  • Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Trans-Formers for Lunar Extreme Environments: Ensuring Long-Term Operations in Regions of Darkness and Low Temperatures;
  • Michael Paul, Pennsylvania State University, SCEPS in Space – Non-Radioisotope Power Systems for Sunless Solar System Exploration Missions

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