General, SpaceCasts

Space on the John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman & Hotel Mars

Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. See the iTunes free Podcast for links to the latest shows.

Tuesday 05/14/13 Batchelor Hour 3

  1. After a successful improvised spacewalk on Saturday, 3 astronauts returned from ISS today.
  2. SpaceX might have a customer for its Falcon Heavy, before it has ever flown once!
  3. The first Dream Chaser prototype is on its way to California for drop tests.
  4. Checking the cracks on Orion.

Wednesday 05/15/13 Batchelor Hour 3
–  A discussion of the failure of Kepler’s second reaction wheel and the end of its primary mission.
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CBS space reporter William Harwood joined Dr. David Livingston on the weekly Hotel Mars segment to discuss the “ISS ammonia repair, Kepler Space Telescope problems, GPS, Atlas 5, Falcon 9, NASA mood”: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 5-15-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

Astronomy, Science and Technology

Update on the Square Kilometer Array + Cosmic rays as lightning triggers

A member of the Susquehanna Astronomical Society points me to a couple of recent  news items of interest starting with an update on The Square Kilometre Array:

And the latest on cosmic rays setting off lightning bolts: Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays – Susquehanna Astronomical Society.

General, Space Arts

The Adventures of an Armchair Astronaut and the future of journalism

A Columbia University journalism class offers a set of stories as part of their  Project Wordsworth – What’s a good story worth to you?

Project Wordsworth is a collective of 17 Columbia Journalism School graduate students who are running an experiment—and you’re already a part of it. Each of us has written a good story that transports you somewhere else, somewhere you’ve never been. That’s worth something. But how much? You decide. Your input will teach us something new about journalism’s future. All proceeds go to the authors.

In one of the stories the author tells of becoming fascinated about space and spaceflight and setting out to learn all about it: Cosmic Postcards: The Adventures of an Armchair Astronaut by Kamakshi Ayyar.

Activism, SpaceCasts

Dr. Stan Rosen & Dave Dressler discuss ISDC 2013 on The Space Show

The upcoming National Space Development Conference (ISDC 2013), May 23 – 27, 2013, San Diego, California was the subject of the Space Show on Tuesday along with “space education, commerce, human exploration, science, & more”: Dr. Stan Rosen, Dave Dressler on ISDC 2013, Tuesday, 5-14-13 | Thespaceshow’s Blog.

See the General Conference Tracks Information for the areas of presentations and discussions at the event.

Everyone can participate in space