On this episode there’s SO much Space news to cover! We Lightning round through the orbital news of today: - DART mission results are in! How well did NASA do affecting the orbital period of the moonlet Dimorphos with its asteroid Didymos? - Teslabot was a controversial topic but thanks to everyone for the great feedback! I recap what I learned and shared my final thoughts on why this could be revolutionary (and controversial).  - Hubble could EXTEND its lifetime thanks to SpaceX and Jared Isaacman with Polaris Dawn 2 - at no cost to NASA?? - The United Launch Alliance received their BE-4 engines for their Vulcan rocket from Blue Origin.  - JWST shares more amazing pictures with a dual-star system Wolf-Rayet 140, including images with other telescopes/wavelengths overlayed to show us more of what is actually out there.

We close out the episode asking YOU about the true space existential question: “Are we alone?”

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DART mission results - better than expected! https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1579895826071293952?s=20&t=9hOnvr6s3yGbH_ENysviKw

Hubble could have longer life thanks to SpaceX and Jared Isaacman  https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/nasa-and-spacex-are-studying-a-hubble-telescope-boost-adding-15-to-20-years-of-life/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-spacex-to-study-hubble-telescope-reboost-possibility

Blue Origin BE-4 engines make it to ULA to Vulcan Tory Bruno steps in as Standard Brian https://twitter.com/SpaceExplorerW/status/1580245486384320519?s=20&t=9hOnvr6s3yGbH_ENysviKw

JWST images that blow our mind https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/10/12/webb-reveals-shells-of-dust-surrounding-brilliant-binary-star-system/ https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/chandrawebb/