Category Archives: Activism

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Spacevidcast 6.13: Is Mars One a scam, fantasy or brilliant idea

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Spacevidcast posts their latest program: Is Mars One a scam, fantasy or brilliant idea? – Spacevidcast

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Mars One is looking to send humans on a one way trip to Mars for a reality TV show. They are taking applications and your money today. How will they get there? Don’t know. How will they survive? Don’t know that either. Is this a scam, poorly thought out fantasy or our best hope to put humans on an alien planet?

In Space News we look at Virgin Galactic’s supersonic test flight, NASA is giving Texas a shuttle and is buying more seats on the Soyuz.

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Activism, Contests and Games, The Moon

Scientist/Reporter Sarah Cruddas on the Space Show + SpaceIL CEO Yariv Bash video talk

Sarah Cruddas, “Scientist, Presenter, Reporter”, talked with David Livingston on Friday about “UK space development, interests, commerce, and journalism, space tourism, China, space policy”: Sarah Cruddas, Friday, 5-3-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog

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Here is a video of Yariv Bash, CEO and founder of the  Google Lunar X PRIZE team SpaceIL, giving a talk back in February:

Activism, General

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 04/30/13 Batchelor Hour 4 :

  • Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo flies under rocket power for first time
  • Opportunity rover went into safe mode during period Mars was blocked by the Sun
  • Russian Progress cargo vehicle successfully docked with the ISS despite antenna deployment failure
  • Russian Soyuz prices raised to $70M per seat

Thursday 05/02/13 Batchelor Hour 4

  • Mars rovers and orbiters back in view
  • Near collsion of Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and a Soviet-era spysat
  • Russian Progress cargo ship may have damaged docking system on ISS
  • NASA pays Russian for 6 more Soyuz seats due to delays in commercial crew program caused by Congressional funding cuts

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On this week’s Hotel Mars segment, Jeff Foust talks with David Livingston and John Batchelor about the recent Antares Orbital Sciences launch and about the NASA commercial cargo and crew program: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 5-1-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

Activism, Contests and Games, Space Science

Planetary Societ Hangout: OSIRS-REx PI and asteroid name winner

The Planetary Society‘s weekly Hangout yesterday  included Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission , which will take off in 2016 on a mission to visit the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (101955) .  The show also included Mike Puzio, age 9, of North Carolina who won the OSIRIS-REx Name That Asteroid contest (see earlier posting).

Activism, History, SpaceCasts

The Space Show: Marc Fusco & Space Age politics + John Batchelor Show: Jeff Foust & Chelyabinsk

Marc Fusco talked on The Space Show on Sunday about “Space history and presidential politics with JFK, Presidents Johnson & Nixon”: Marc Fusco, Sunday, 4-28-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

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Jeff Foust of The Space Review   (+ spacetoday.net, Space Politics, and NewSpace Journal) spoke on the John Batchelor Show last Tuesday 04/23/13 about the Chelyabinsk fireball event.