TMRO/Spacevidcast 7.27 – Community Chat: Expedite New Space

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The latest TMRO/Spacevidcast show is now available on line: Community Chat: Expedite New Space – 7.27

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In our second community chat we ask the question, “How can we expedite the new space gold rush?” Segment starts at 16:09

In Space News:
2:27 – NASA completes key review of SLS
4:58 – Sea Launch cuts back staff
6:30 – International Launch Services (ILS) cuts back staff
7:28 – Kodiak Launch Complex has a test rocket explode
8:57 – Dragon V2 will rely on parachutes
13:26 – Plans to overhaul the Mojave Space Port

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Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al, History, Space Systems

National Geographic’s history of the Voyager missions

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Check out the National Geographic’s elaborate and beautifully illustrated history of the two Voyager spacecraft, which toured the outer planets and then headed out towards interstellar space. It’s all on a single web page and as you scroll down you go through the various phases of their missions and different audio clips play for each.

Like the ancient mariners, they would navigate a vast ocean, the solar system …

It was 1977. Jimmy Carter was president, Elvis Presley gave his last performance, and Saturday Night Fever blasted into theaters. Above the Earth, twin spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 sailed into space on a trailblazing expedition to go where no man had gone before.

They would reveal that the moons orbiting Jupiter were worlds in their own right, that Saturns fabled rings boasted intricate weaves, and that Earth was but a pale blue dot set in the vastness of space. No other spacecraft have divulged the secrets of so many worlds, roamed so far, or so profoundly reshaped our view of our home in the cosmos.

Their journey was an idea centuries in the making and their success far from predetermined. It was a risk but a serendipitous one. As Captain Kirk said, “Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.”

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Astronomy

Video: What’s Up for Sept. 2014 – a night sky preview

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The night sky for the coming month is described in NASA JPL’s What’s Up for September 2014:

Science and Technology

Sci-Tech: Malloy Aeronautics hoverbike project lifts off with 1/3 scale drone

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The company Malloy Aeronautics has designed a one-person ducted-fan vehicle, i.e a hoverbike, and hopes to pay for its development with sales of a 1/3 scale-model drone version. They have more than doubled their £30,000 goal in a Kickstarter campaign to cover marketing the drone : Hoverbike by Chris Malloy — Kickstarter

The objective of this campaign is to kick-start sales of our beautiful 1/3rd scale Hoverbike drone and accessories via your pledges, and to help create a long term income stream that we can use to continue development of the manned Hoverbike.

Here is their Kickstarter video:

More about the project: Watch A Robot Ride A Hovercycle – Popular Science –