This Saturday and Sunday JP will be on the radio with Senator Bill Bradley.
The Senator’s radio show “American Voices” is on Sirius Satellite network. The Senator and JP will talk about PongSat, space education and Airship to Orbit. Listen in!
American Voices airs on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 124
Saturdays: 7AM, 1PM, and 7PM; Sundays: 4AM, 10AM, 4PM, and 11PM.
(All times are EST)
Joe Latrell of Photos-to-Space starts a new series of video news reports. This episode of 90 Second Science covers the return of Chris Hadfield, UP Aerospace’s next flight, Sierra Nevada’s Dreamchaser and a look back at Skylab.
You know the names: Sputnik, Apollo, JFK, LBJ, Gagarin, Laika, von Braun. You know the speeches: “…We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, …” But do you know the reality? Find out when astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Prof. John Logsdon, an expert in the history of space exploration. You’ll learn Eisenhower’s secret reason for starting NASA, why JFK offered to explore space jointly with the Russians, and how “Operation Paperclip” helped us win the Space Race… and the Arms Race. Find out why the Apollo program ended early and why NASA retired the Space Shuttle but the Soyuz is still going strong. Plus Neil’s favorite moment in the US space program and a history lesson “through the lens of Chuck Nice.” And this is just Part 1
The latest episode of This Week @NASA covers Saturday’s space walk by two astronauts on the ISS to fix a coolant leak and several other topics including:
Humans 2 Mars, 40th Anniversary of Skylab, Marshburn “Testifies” From Space, Next ISS Crew Focused on Launch, Curiosity Rover Update, Landsat’s Vegas Time-Lapse, Fruit Flies Improving Flight, Student Launch Projects and more!