TIS#043 07/30/15 Weekly Update&Where Spacecraft Go to Die... - a podcast by Alex G. Orphanos, Science Communicator
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Weekly Update/
Lightning Round
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Alex brings a Weekly Update of what's up in Space this week. This includes Reboot the Suit, the UK Space Agency's New Plan, some space junk & another Pluto Update.
This week's lightning round comes in at 175 bpm with some trap beats, some bass & a piano. Entitled "Where Spacecraft Go to Die..."
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WHAT THE HELL IS A PODCAST?!ON EARTH:
- Reboot the Suit:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smithsonian/reboot-the-suit-bring-back-neil-armstrongs-spacesu/description - Blue Moon this Friday - Look up!
http://www.space.com/30083-blue-moon-full-moon-friday.html - The UK Space Agency's new National Space Strategy
http://www.space.com/30042-uk-space-agency-national-strategy.html?cmpid=514648
A look at Tim Peake:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-britain-uks-first-official-astronaut-major-tim-peake-on-tweeting-like-chris-hadfield-and-missing-his-wife-and-sons-8623957.html
Link to the UK Space Agency's Strategy Document
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/442462/Space_Environments_and_Human_Spaceflight_Strategyv2.pdf
IN ORBIT:
- Space Junk & Mission Prep on the ISS - an Update:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/07/27/station-avoids-satellite-fragment-spacewalk-preps-start/ - The $5 Trillion Dollar Asteroid that went by us the other day...
http://www.space.com/30074-trillion-dollar-asteroid-2011-uw158-earth-flyby.html?cmpid=514648
PLUTO! ...AN UPDATE:
- Color-Coded maps of Pluto & Charon
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/the-vader-crater#.qh0Alx4aD - Halo of Atmosphere on a Backlit Pluto as New Horizons Flies By
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150724
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Also, don't forget to listen to "Pluto, the Misunderstood." by Today In Space!
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