The Kepler Spacecraft ran into trouble last Friday but thanks to heroic effort by the team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kepler’s search for Exoplanets can resume. We discuss the SpaceX Dragon Cargo Resupply Mission 8 and it’s cargo specifically the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to be attached to the International Space Station. SpaceX also proved at least part of their business model by landing the first stage of their Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship. We discuss the implications. At the 32nd Space Symposium, United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace announced a partnership to loft Bigelow’s B330 expandable modules in 2020, thus creating a new independent space station separate from the ISS without NASA. The team looks at this groundbreaking deal. ULA was also making news this week at the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), presenting it’s blueprint for a cis-lunar economy once more independent of NASA. All of this looks at space not just a place for exploration but economic opportunity, the team discusses and explores what a future could look like.
In the second half of the show, the team opens up part one of it’s NEAF roundup with David Shoemaker of the Advanced LIGO Project and Hans Koeningsmann of SpaceX The second half of our NEAF roundup will be coming up in Episode 806.
Host: Sawyer Rosenstein
Panel Members: Kassy Tamanini & Gene Mikulka
Episode 342: Landing a New Home
Episode 341: Deep 'Space.com' Travel
Episode 340: 100 Years in 1 Hour
Episode 339: It's "Aviation Week" on Talking Space
Episode 338: Talking Space is
Episode 337: Clean Up Time for Low Earth Orbit
Episode 336: The Holy GRAIL
Episode 335: EVA-Expansive Variety of Acronyms
Episode 334: Our Corner of the 'Cosmos'
Episode 333: Juno About Jupiter?
Episode 332: 30 Years, 6 Vehicles, 1 Amazing Journey
Episode 331: Talking Space Broadcasts Live at STS-135 - Part 3
Episode 331: Talking Space Broadcasts Live at STS-135 - Part 2
Episode 331: Talking Space Broadcasts Live at STS-135 - Part 1
Episode 330: A New Dawn is Upon Us
Episode 329: The Final Countdown
Episode 328: It's Been A Blast!
Episode 327: The Little Asteroid That Couldn't
Episode 326: Talking Space Live For 135
Episode 325: Finding NEEMO
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