   Don’t forget to join us for our live shows on 16th and 27th April at https://www.youtube.com/user/AwesomeAstroPod/videos   (midday PST, 3pm EST, 8pm UK, 9pm Central Europe)   The Discussion: Jen fangirling on The British Interplanetary Society and acing the Soyuz ISS docking simulator at the Student Space Conference; a ramble about Wales; the TV show For All Mankind, our live Q&A; show, our poor etiquette and listener shout-outs.   The News: Rounding up the space exploration news this month we have:    The impact of coronavirus on current and future NASA missions     Some research showing the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy The UK’s space spiders to explore the moon’s lava craters Lockheed Martin developing helicopters to catch spent rocket boosters    Main news story: Is Europe’s ExoMars Rover on borrowed time?   The Electromagnetic Spectrum: The microwave part of the spectrum. How it became so important for astronomy and by whom.   Q&A;: Where’s the Tesla Roadster? From @TJRobinson on Twitter. 

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This month Dr Jen is off to the US for the Solar Eclipse while Paul is just back from Goonhilly Earth Station. We chat about the imminent demise of the Chandra Space Telescope, more news on the Hubble tension, and of course the Great North American Eclipse.  Chinese Lunar ambitions, Starship making it to space and the first Boeing Starliner crew make the news while in this months history moment we talk about the brightest Stellar event witnessed by humans.  

Episode 142 Awesome Astronomy April 2024

This podcast extra is our full length interview with Dr Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space Station in 1991. 

Britain's First Astronaut

This month our intrepid crew of the good ship Awesome investigate sub surface oceans on the moons of the solar system, smoking stars, distant blackholes, oversized structures and of course tippy over lunar landers. There is also the monthly skyguide and a look at the astro history of March!

Wet Moons and Tippy landers

  This month Dr Jen talks to Dr Phil! Dr Phil Metzger, 30 years at NASA where he has worked on various missions and programmes including the ISS snd Space Shuttle, while more recently he has been investigating how rocket efflux interacts with soil and what this will mean for future landings on the Moon and Mars…

Blasting Soil - Interview with Dr Phil Metzger

This month we explore the exciting announcements from the European Space Agency as they outline their new missions for the 2030s. LISA, a space based gravitational wave detector and EnVision, a Venus mission that will map the surface and under-surface of that planet in unprecedented detail.  We have the usual skyguide, chat about recent lunar missions and emails from the listeners.

#94 - April 2020 Part 2

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