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Updates to Mars 2020 and MRO. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://spacenewspodcast.com

SpaceX postponed their launch until tonight at 10:30PM EST. https://spacenewspodcast.com http://spacenewspod.com https://spaceindustrynews.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet will bring back net neutrality to millions of Americans. https://spacenewspodcast.com https://spaceindustrynews.com http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

 Elon Musk's SpaceX is doing simultaneous competing builds of Starship in Boca Chica Texas & Cape Canaveral Florida. https://spacenewspodcast.com https://spaceindustrynews.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast http://spacenewspod.com

Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies NASA is looking to develop with small business awards totaling $106 million. In all, NASA has selected 142 proposals from 129 U.S. small businesses from 28 states and the District of Columbia to receive Phase II contracts as part the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.  https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://spaceindustrynews.com https://spacenewspod.com https://spacenewspodcast.com

The Great Red Spot in Jupiter's atmosphere has long since been a mystery. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast http://spacenewspod.com

As you fall toward the black hole, you move faster and faster, accelerated by its gravity. Your feet feel a stronger gravitational pull than your head, because they are closer to the black hole. As a result, your body is stretched apart. For small black holes, this stretching is so strong that your body is completely torn apart before you reach the event horizon. If you fall into a supermassive black hole, your body remains intact, even as you cross the event horizon. But soon thereafter you reach the central singularity, where you are squashed into a single point of infinite density. You have become one with the black hole. Unfortunately, you are unable to write home about the experience. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast http://spacenewspod.com

A senior NASA official said Tuesday that the Space Launch System, a huge heavy-lift rocket years behind schedule, could launch astronauts on a moon landing mission in 2024 on just its third flight to meet a goal announced last month by Vice President Mike Pence, while commercial companies will be entrusted with more responsibility to develop a lunar lander and a modest mini-space station, or Gateway, in lunar orbit. 

Blue Moon is Blue Origins secret project that will send humans back to the moon by 2024. They also spoke about new glen, their heavy lift rocket. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast http://spacenewspod.com

 Jeff Bezos Amazon Billionaire Planning Moon Mission with Blue Origin to mine for water ice and establish settlement. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 6) to deliver nearly 3 tons of NASA supplies to the orbiting laboratory.  Astronauts on the station captured the uncrewed Dragon cargo ship with a robotic arm at 7:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) as both spacecraft sailed 254 miles (408 kilometers) above the north Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft is carrying about 5,500 lbs. ( 2,495 kilograms) of experiments and other supplies for the station's six-person Expedition 59 crew. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://youtube.com/spacenewspod #NASA #SpaceX #technology

NASA recently looked into an asteroid impact scenario where a large body collides with New York City. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

Tesla is showing signs of slowing down in the first quarter of 2019. They will need to ramp up production to make money in the summer and fall of this year. http://spacenewspod.com https://youtube.com/spacenewspod https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

Regarding the risks of space colonization, harm to our biology is first on the list of concerns, followed by risks to our individual psyches and our ability to work cooperatively as a team. Space is a risky place, given the far-from-optimal conditions of long flights in compact spacecraft. There are plenty of challenges that prospective astronauts should cautiously consider before signing up for a trip to deep space. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

 The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is the largest known super-structure in the universe. It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern. It is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick. It is about 10 billion light-years away in the constellations of Hercules and Corona Borealis, hence its name.

SpaceX has been given the thumbs-up from the Federal Communications Commission to start building global internet service via thousands of satellites that could offer internet to anyone on the planet.

An asteroid named 16 Psyche, was found to be made almost entirely of iron and nickel. That means, in current US markets, 16 Psyche is worth somewhere around $10,000 quadrillion.

NASA and SpaceX investigating Crew Dragon Explosion before launching humans to ISS.

While headlines routinely report on "close shaves" and "near-misses" when near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids or comets pass relatively close to Earth, the real work of preparing for the possibility of a NEO impact with Earth goes on mostly out of the public eye. For more than 20 years, NASA and its international partners have been scanning the skies for NEOs, which are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun and come within 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit. International groups, such as NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), the European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness-NEO Segment and the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) have made better communication of the hazards posed by NEOs a top priority.

NASA’s InSight lander set down the French SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars. On 6 April, on the 128th Martian day or ‘sol’ of the mission, a quiet but distinct seismic signal was detected similar to quakes detected on the surface of the Moon by the Apollo missions. 

NASA's next Mars mission is slowly coming together in a "clean room" in California. Technicians at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembled the capsule that will keep the Mars 2020 rover secure for its wild ride to the Red Planet's surface. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

 China unveiled a colossal Mars survival simulation base camp on Wednesday in the Gobi desert of Jinchang, Northwest China's Gansu Province. According to a project employee, the simulation camp will become an astronaut training facility in the future.  

The helium hydride ion (HeH+) the scientists detected wasn't the original one created just after the Big Bang, but it has the same molecular structure — helium combined with hydrogen — they theorized formed at the time. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole. 

 Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe. The Neolithic inhabitants appear to have traveled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia before winding their way north. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

 NASA has chosen SpaceX to work on its first-ever attempt to deflect a space rock that's hurtling at high speed in space. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will take flight placed on a Falcon 9 rocket in June 2021 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

SpaceX makes history with first ever Falcon Heavy 3 Stage Landing. SpaceIL crash lands its private Moon lander on the surface of the Moon.

Georgia is immensely proud of its ancient wine-making tradition, claiming to have been the first nation to make wine. Now it wants to be the first to grow grapes on Mars  https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name — is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across. While this may sound large, this ring is only about 40 microarcseconds across — equivalent to measuring the length of a credit card on the surface of the Moon. Although the telescopes making up the EHT are not physically connected, they are able to synchronize their recorded data with atomic clocks — hydrogen masers — which precisely time their observations. These observations were collected at a wavelength of 1.3 mm during a 2017 global campaign. Each telescope of the EHT produced enormous amounts of data – roughly 350 terabytes per day – which was stored on high-performance helium-filled hard drives. These data were flown to highly specialised supercomputers — known as correlators — at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory to be combined. They were then painstakingly converted into an image using novel computational tools developed by the collaboration.

In this episode we talk about how the ISS is as dirty as an Earth gym and really cool pumpkin toadlets that live in brazil and glow under UV lights.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, an un-manned spacecraft the size of a small family car, is already the closest man-made object ever to the Sun – now a mere 15 million miles (24 million km) away from its fiery surface. European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the moon. 

 Youtuber, Tom Staniland, known as "Killem" said the goal of his mission wasn't just to launch said burger into space, but to be able to actually eat a burger that had breached earth's atmosphere. 

ALH-77005, a Martian rock found in Antarctica, contains numerous mineralized ‘biosignatures,’ including coccoidal, filamentous structures and organic material, according to a team of scientists from Hungary. The agency and Mattel, the company that makes Barbie, partnered to create two Cristoforetti-look-alike dolls in honor of Barbie's 60th "birthday" this year, according to a statement from the ESA. One of the dolls wears a stylized reproduction of NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the suit that astronauts wear on spacewalks, and the other Barbie wears a blue ESA flight suit complete with patches from the agency.

 An Israeli lander is now orbiting the Moon ahead of a lunar landing on the 11th of April

 Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites so it can offer broadband internet from space.   "Project Kuiper" is Amazon's plan to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed internet. The move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos. There's a race among several major players to build a next-generation broadband network in space, including Elon Musk's SpaceX and SoftBank-backed OneWeb.

 NASA sees risk to ISS after India's Mission Shakti: The ISS is at constant risk of collision from space debris, and once in a while needs to navigate away in order to avoid collisions.

 MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing. Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.   Scientists have pondered Saturn's rings since Galileo peered at the planet through an early telescope in 1610. From the angle at which he observed it, Galileo surmised that Saturn wasn't a single star, but was actually three: a large middle star with two ear-like appendages sticking out of it, which he thought might be large moons. 

The Event Horizon Telescope will be announcing it's first findings on April 10th 2019 at 15:00 CEST. We expect there to be the first ever pictures of black holes to be released.

 DARPA plans to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system that can be assembled on orbit to expand U.S. operating presence in cislunar space, according to the Pentagon advanced research agency’s fiscal 2020 budget request. 

New evidence of deep groundwater on Mars Researchers suggests that deep groundwater can generate surface streams on Mars.

 NASA and the European Space Agency are willing to pay 24 participants nearly $19,000 to spend 60 days in bed and monitored around the clock.   The 24 participants will be separated into two groups, but housed in a single room. Each person will be propped up at an incline with their feet above their head, reducing blood flow to the extremities, mimicking the effects of being in space. This could, however, lead to numbness and muscle deterioration. 

When astronauts spend long periods of time in space, the more likely they are to have viruses such as herpes, chickenpox and shingles reactivate, according NASA . 

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to launch astronauts in July, says Russian source. Nicole A. Mann could possibly be the first woman to step foot on the Lunar surface.

 Pence made the declaration at a meeting of the National Space Council hosted at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.   https://anchor.fm/space-news  https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast  https://youtube.com/spacenewspod  https://twitch.tv/spacenewspod  https://spacenewspodcast.com  https://twitter.com/spacenewspod  https://facebook.com/spacenewspod 

Is there evidence of life on Mars? An international team of research scientists, in a just published monograph titled "Evidence of Life on Mars? --consisting of a scholarly review of nearly 200 peer reviewed scientific studies-- answer this age old question with a resounding "yes." And they've included pictures of Martian specimens, photographed by NASA, which they say support their claims.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a directive centralizing all military space functions under a new Space Force, which will be overseen by the Department of the Air Force. 

 Vice President may tell NASA to accelerate lunar landings.   "We're tired of generating PowerPoint journeys that don't go anywhere."

Toyota's Latest is a Sweet-Looking Lunar Rover & NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars.

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