Monthly Archives: April 2016

Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO 9.13 – #VoteForSpace

The latest episode of the TMRO.tv live show is now available in the archive: #VoteForSpace – TMRO

This week we bring on guest John Benac, Managing Director of Vote For Space. For more information on Vote For Space hit up their website at http://www.voteforspace.com

News topics discussed:

* Russian billionaire devotes $100 million to star flight initiative
* Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum
* Binary star discovered approaching galactic escape velocity
* BEAM installed on ISS
* Bigelow Aerospace partners with ULA to launch private space habitats
* Chain of onboard failures dooms Hitomi – Kepler Returns

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Space Arts

Rik Allen creates sci-fi glass sculptures

Glass artist Rik Allen specializes in sci-fi space inspired sculptures: Area glass artist making art of rocket science – Connecticut Post.

Allen made his first glass spaceship in 1998 as a gift for his nephew.

Since then, he has built spaceships, pieces of space travel equipment and astronaut-like figures of various sizes. He’s built them out of glass and some metals.

Check out his portfolio here. 

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History

The Kettering Satellite Tracking Group

Check out this interesting history of the Kettering Satellite Tracking Group, a club of students organized by teacher Geoffrey Perry at the Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire, England during the Cold War: Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret – BBC News.

The group monitored Soviet radio communications dealing with the space program and made a number of revelations about Soviet space activities. For example, in 1966 they were the first to reveal publicly the location of the Plesetsk launch site in north Russia.

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