Astronomer Bruce Betts of the Planetary Society lays out all the basics about Comet Siding Spring, which on October 19, 2014 will make a close fly-by of Mars.
The Space Show this week – Oct.13.14
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Oct. 13, , 2014: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome back BRUCE PITTMAN, Chief System Engineer, NASA Space Portal/SETI, & NASA Ames Research Center.
2. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014:,7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): This is our Space Show Audition Program. For those of you wanting to be a guest on TSS, this program is for you. Call us & tell us what you are doing regarding space & why you want to be a guest on the show. We will also take Open Lines calls but our focus is on auditions for The Space Show.
3. Friday, Oct. 107 2014, 9:30 -11 AM PDT (12:30-2 PM EDT; 11:30-1 PM CDT): We welcome JEREMY STRAUB & JOE VACEK to discuss the impact of regulations on education, research & small business (with a small satellite perspective). .
4. Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT). Welcome MIKE SNYDER, the Director of R& D for Made in Space, to the program. They recent placed a 3D printer on the ISS.
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.
‘Women in Space’ database at Telegraph Jobs
The Telegraph newspaper has created a special resource site called Women In Space – Telegraph Jobs –
The Women In Space database is brought to you by Telegraph Jobs. This educational and motivational resource enables you to view what the historic heroines have accomplished on their missions to space and what the current modern female marvels are accomplishing in their day to day job role. If you happen to be working in these fields of work and are not currently on the database then feel free to email the Telegraph Engineering Jobs team today to be featured (womeninspace@telegraph.co.uk).
We would love to hear from all you women out there and would like to encourage more females to make an impact around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), to take the opportunity to study in these fascinating fields and to venture off into deep space.
The world, planets and space awaits you, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Univ. North Dakota group begins 30 day planetary base simulation
Pablo de Leon‘s group at the Univ. of North Dakota Department of Space Studies is carrying out another extended simulated space base project:
- UND grad students to spend 30 days in prototypical planetary base – Grand Forks Herald
- UND begins space travel simulation experiment – WDAZ – news video report
Updates on the sim are available at the NDX Space Suit Projects blog:
- 30-Day Analog Mission Starts Today! – Oct.7.14
- Second Analog Mission Started Today – Oct.7.14
- Day 3 – From the Crew – Oct.10.14
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Video: Do any Exoplanets have intelligent occupants? – SETIcon 2 panel
Below is another panel discussion from the SETI Institute‘s SETIcon 2 event. This one is titled: Do Any Exoplanets Have Intelligent Occupants? As listed in the caption, the panelists include:
- Jon M. Jenkins – Jon is the Analysis Lead for Kepler space observatory.
- Jill Tarter – Jill directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life elsewhere, and is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI.
- Margaret Turnbull- Margaret is an American astronomer. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004.
- Dan Werthimer – Dan is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP).
- Moderator: Gerry Harp – SETI Institute