LEGO Shuttle Enterprise and SpaceFest at Intrepid Museum

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Robert Pearlman reports on a highly detailed 1/35 scale LEGO replica of Space Shuttle Enterprise that has gone on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, which is now displaying the full scale Enterprise vehicle: LEGO brick space shuttle Enterprise lands at New York City museum – collectSPACE.

The debut of the model is part of the museum’s SpaceFest 2013 event happening this weekend (July 25-28). The SpaceFest

is a 4-day celebration of space, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) and innovation. Join us for interactive displays from NASA and our partners, astronaut appearances, an astronomy night, and more. And of course check out our newly reopened Space Shuttle Pavilion, featuring Enterprise.

Space Policy, Space Settlement, Space Systems

There is another way – to space

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This new video from the Space Frontier Foundation explains in a clear and straight-forward manner the affordable, incremental, commercial approach to space development that is the alternative to the unaffordable approach that NASA is currently going with its hyper-expensive super heavy lifter:

General, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Space on The John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman + Hotel Mars

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In Bob Zimmerman‘s latest visit on the John Batchelor radio program, he spoke about the following topics:

Thurs 7/25/13 Hour 3 – John Batchelor Show
1. The effort to fix Kepler does not look good.
2. Orion parachute drop test a success.
3. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all show better than expected profits despite sequestration.
4. Hints that Congress is finally beginning to realize that commercial space is the way to go.

Bob also recorded a segment for an upcoming program, perhaps to be broadcast this weekend, in which he discussed the following topics:
1. The pale blue dot, as seen from Saturn and Mercury.
2. More climate fraud: the routine lowering of past climate data to make today’s temperatures seem hotter.
3. Pro-global warming scientists, called to testify by Barbara Boxer, are forced to admit the temperature stopped rising 10-15 years ago.
4. The explanation for why the climate hasn’t warmed these past 10 years: the heat is hiding!

[ Update: This episode is available at Mon 7/29/13 Hr 3 Batchelor.]

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On Wednesday, David Livingston joined Batchelor for the latest episode of the weekly Hotel Mars segment. They talked with space law expert Michael Listner about the “legalities & issues regarding asteroid and resource mining in space”: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 7-24-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog