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 207: Stand Clear of the Closing Hatch
Episode 206: Twalk.in about SaveNASA...
Episode 205: No Moon, No Mars, No Service
Episode 204: We're not 'Live' in 3, 2, 1
Episode 203: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Episode 202: Model Styrofoam Planets on the Ceiling or in Space?
Episode 201: Can You @SPOTScott? We Did
Episode 112: I Can Talk for Miles and Miles with Miles
Episode 111: HLV: How Low-Budget the Vehicle?
Episode 110: Dr. Tom Jones Goes 'Sky Walking'
Episode 109: A 'Bake Sale for NASA' Invaded by Crickets!
Episode 108: Is NASA All STS or S.O.S.?
Episode 107: Tweet-up, Up, and Away!
Episode: 106 Meet, Greet, and Tweet
Episode 105: “What’s on Your Mind” Mark Benson?
Episode 104: Speaking of the Stars...
Episode 103: Solar Bodies and NASA Programs Hold Water
Episode 102: Space Exploraton and the Media
Episode 101: Single Human Theory & Defying Gravity
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