Here is the latest episode of The Planetary Society‘s Planetary Post with Robert Picardo:
This month, Robert Picardo and Bill Nye took a trip to the Goddard Space Flight Center to see the James Webb Space Telescope being built in the clean room. This is the 5th installment of The Planetary Post, our monthly newsletter from Robert Picardo featuring the most notable space happenings. To sign up go to http://www.planetary.org/connect
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, June 20, 2016: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome ZOLTAN LEVAY to discuss Hubble space imaging. Mr. Levay is the imaging team leader for Hubble.
2. Tuesday, June 21 2016: 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT) OPEN LINES. First time callers welcome. All space and STEM topics welcome.
3. Friday, June 24, 2016: 2016; 9:30-11AM PDT; (12:30-2 PM EDT; 11:30 AM – 1 PM CDT) We welcome back DR. DOUG PLATA.
4. Sunday, June 26, 2016: 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT): We welcome RACHEL TILLMAN & AL TREDER to discuss the Viking Restoration Project.
See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
TMRO.tv discussed Blue Origin on the latest show: Is Blue Origin planning something big? – #Player2HasJoined – TMRO
For the first time Blue Origin will be webcasting one of their experimental vehicle launches. This got us to thinking, what have they been working on in the past and what does that mean for the future of Blue Origin? Will they be heading to the Moon? Mars? Or just playing catchup to SpaceX? To be clear, this is all speculation and guesses. What do you think?
Space news topics discussed:
* China launches another Beidou Navigation Satellite
* SpaceX launches, but fails to land
* Gravitational Waves Detected from Second Pair of Coalescing Black Holes
* Blue Origin to Webcast New Shepard Flight on Sunday Morning
* The Return of Antares has slipped to August
* Soyuz TMA-19M lands
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Here is a video of today’s flight of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket vehicle:
And the full webcast video (broadcast starts at around 27 minutes into the video and liftoff firing starts at 1:03:10):
Check out the paper models for both the Tesla Model S and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plus Elon Musk himself: Tesla-S and Falcon 9 models – AXM Paper Space Scale Models Blog –
A veil of light is blanking out the night sky for more and more of the world’s population: Milky Way Can No Longer Be Seen By One-Third of Humanity Because of Light Pollution – Nature World News
The atlas shows that more than 80 percent of the world and more than 99 percent of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. Light pollution is most evident in developed countries, where the ubiquitous presence of artificial lights has created a luminous fog that blots out the stars and constellations once visible during the night.
“We’ve got whole generations of people in the United States who have never seen the Milky Way,” Chris Elvidge of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and co-author of the study said in a report published in Science Daily.
“It’s a big part of our connection to the cosmos – and it’s been lost,” he added.
Here are maps of light pollution: The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness – Science Advances
Here are some places with the best dark skys: Space Tourism on Earth: The 7 Dark Sky Reserves to Visit Right Now – Inverse.