Weekly Space Hangout – June 5, 2015: Stephen Fowler, Creative Director at InfoAge
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: This week we welcome Stephen Fowler, who is the Creative Director at InfoAge, the organization behind refurbishing the TIROS 1 dish and the Science History Learning Center and Museum at Camp Evans, Wall, NJ.
Guests:
Jolene Creighton (@jolene723 / fromquarkstoquasars.com)
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
This Week’s Stories:
LightSail wakes up, deploys solar panels, falls silent again
Russia identifies cause of Progress capsule loss, sort of tell us
Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
LHC Starts collecting Physics Data for first time in 2 years
SLS Main Engine Test Fire Round Two Ignites With 450-Second Burn at Stennis Space Center
NASA Developing Plans for Human Missions to Cislunar Space in 2020s
Latest Proton Failure Leaves Customers, Insurers in a Bind
Orbital ATK Targets Resumption of Antares Launches in March 2016
The Great ‘Mars Bake-Off’ Begins
See The World From 100,000 Feet
Sydney University Physics Undergraduate Maps Huge Plasma Tubes in the Sky
Methane Detected On Mars Could Have Come From Curiosity
LightSail Team Prepares for Possible Tuesday Sail Deployment
Ultraviolet Study Reveals Surprises in Comet Coma
A (Very) Few More Details on Pluto
Astronomers Observe Rare Stellar Eclipse
The Journey to Pluto: Best Images from the New Horizons Mission
Air Force Releases Rocket Propulsion System Prototypes RFP
NASA Chief Wants to Cut Mars Travel Time in Half
Crashing Comets May Explain Mysterious Lunar Swirls
Magellan Super-Scope Gets Green Light for Construction
NASA’s Orion Loses Weight, Gains New Windows
Earth-Sized Exoplanets’ Circular Orbits May Narrow Down Hunt for Life
First Rocket to Arrive at Russia’s New Launch Site
Unusual Interactions Between Pluto’s Moons
Researchers Use Stars to Infer Mass of Milky Way
China Plans to Launch Dark Matter Probe
Blue Origin to Launch from Florida? Maybe – Maybe Not
NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos
Monster Waves Delay NASA Parachute
Mars Missions to Pause Commanding in June, Due to Sun
Robotics Teams Prepare to Compete for $1.5 Million in NASA Challenge
LightSail Deployment Update: Panels Wednesday, Sails Friday
Celebrating 11 Years of CARMA Discoveries
House Approves Appropriations Bill With $18.5 Billion For NASA
Roscosmos Determines Cause of Progress Cargo Craft Failure
A Simulation of the Orientation of Pluto’s Small Moon Nix
Exiled Stars Explode Far From Home
Returning the “Silent Sentinel” to Active Duty
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