Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce.

The Discussion: 

• Tales from a dark sky weekend.
• Jen appearing on the Cosmic Companion and at the Open University Space Society.
• Emails on space tourism and from a US state penitentiary. And a touching letter from Randy Crocker in Clayton, Alabama.

 

The News:

• NASA gets ready to test an asteroid redirect mission.
• Shatner in space.
• Mixed fortunes in the news for Bezos & Musk.
• The James Webb Space Telescope is still on track for a December launch.

 

The news discussion: 

NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

 

Moons of the Solar System: Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the solar system’s moons. This month we complete this segment with a look at moons around asteroids and the tantalising glimpses of moons around planets outside our solar system.

 

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Bio: Awesome Astronomy is a podcast beamed direct from an underground bunker on Mars to promote science, space and astronomy (and enslave Earth if all goes well).

 

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