CEO of WayPaver Foundation Michael Mealling joins us to talk about what they are doing to remove obstacles in the way of lunar exploration and settlement.
Space news topics covered:
Rocket Lab launches 1st Electron rocket Jupiter Surprises in First Juno Data Release ISS News – A Spacewalk and a Homecoming Third Detection of a Gravitational Wave Spaceplane News – A Stratolaunch, A Dreamchaser, and a Unity
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A symposium at Columbia University this weekend focused on “The Dawn of Private Space Science“. Videos of the many interesting talks are posted at Fiat Physica – Facebook. Here is a sampling:
SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon. The Dragon is now headed for a rendezvous and berthing on Monday with the International Space Station. It is delivering about 2700 kilograms of cargo, primarily consisting of instruments and materials for science and technology experiments. After separating from the upper stage, the first stage booster returned and landed at Cape Canaveral. This is the 11th successful landing of a Falcon 9 booster (6 at sea and 5 on land).
Here are some images and videos from the launch and landing:
Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA giving an update on the latest happenings related to the International Space Station:
Today Expedition 51 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) departed from the ISS in a Soyuz spacecraft and later landed in the Kazakstan wilderness. Here are video highlights of their eventful day:
