John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman’s Thurs. report + Curiosity update on Hotel Mars

March 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor radio program on Thursday night (podcast) about the following topics:

Curiosity is out of safe mode, though communications in April will be very limited.
Jeff Bezos has recovered from the ocean floor two first stage engines from an Apollo Saturn 5 rocket.
The company that launches the Proton rocket commercially has lowered its prices.
Voyager 1 has almost? maybe? left the solar system.

(See the earlier post here about Bob’s Tuesday night report.)

—

Dr. Ralph Milliken of Brown University talked with John Bachelor and David Livingston on Wednesday during the weekly Hotel Mars segment about the Mars Curiosity rover and its drilling tests, about the building blocks for life, and about Mars organics: The John Batchelor Hotel Mars Show, Wednesday, 3-20-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

History, Rockets, Space Models

Apollo 11 Saturn V model kit

March 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Check out the cool Saturn V Rocket “Apollo 11” Model Kit 1:72 at Bad Cat toys. Link via Cheaper Saturn V – The Unwanted Blog

Space Arts, Space Music

Space music from starlight and more

March 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Robert Lamb‘s latest space music posting looks at three musicians: Space Music: Buddhist Stars, Sun Sounds and Alphabet’s Heaven – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks.

He begins with Lucianne Walkowicz, who works as a Princeton astrophysicist in her day job on the Kepler mission. She creates

sonifications of data from NASA’s Kepler mission. The sounds you hear are drawn from changes measured in the brightness of stars, which have certain frequencies that depend on how rapidly the star is spinning.