Weekly Space Hangout – May 2, 2014: Gas Clouds & Photobombs
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter), Nancy Atkinson (@Nancy_A)
This Week’s Stories:
G2 cloud/star
Curiosity Selfie
Live stream from ISS?
NASA research spinoffs
Cosmos
Astronauts to space on trampolines
SpaceX updates – F9 1000m, Water landing update, injunction
Cassini picture of Uranus
Beta Pic rotation rate
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