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2021.12.08 | The Space Show Off-Cuts Edition: A collection of tasty morsels that didn’t make it to air in 2021

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 December 2021:

  • Launch coverage of Soyuz MS-20: a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station launched on 8 December 2021. Soyuz MS-20 is commanded by a single professional cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin, and carries two space tourists, Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano for the space tourism company Space Adventures.
  • NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): A space observatory built to discover the secrets of some of the most extreme objects in the universe – the remnants of supernova explosions and more.
  • Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut mission end: A profile of his second mission aboard the International Space Station and his personal reflections on seeing the Earth from space.
  • Twelve astronaut candidates have been selected to begin training at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston in January 2022.
  • The 17th flight of the ingenuity helicopter above the surface of Mars.
  • The science objectives of the Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.
  • The Queensland-based Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced its latest project, the DART AE. DART AE is the world’s first 3D printed hypersonic platform in high-temperature alloys - and it’s made in Australia.
  • NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) asteroid impactor: NASA's first planetary defence mission
  • The European Space Agency’s Hera mission
  • Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) cubesat mission
  • Distributing the rewards of asteroid mining operations with Prof Christian Barry, the Centre for Social, Moral and Political Theory at the Australian National University in Canberra
  • Using supernovae as ‘Standard Candles’ and the Nancy Roman Space Telescope 
  • Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon: What’s the big deal about Europa?
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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia