Wes and Shawn discuss NASA's annual day to remember on the anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy while also remembering the Challenger, Columbia and others, plus, the JWST has reached L2 and calibrations can begin.

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Things are getting interesting on Mars for the Curiosity rover and things have gotten stuck for Perseverance. The Sun continues to show signs of an extreme Solar Cycle 25 and scientists are working on creating steak from cow cells.

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Wes and Shawn discuss the latest good news for the JWST while acknowledging that first light is still to come, plus caution you to not worry about the ominous headlines about the space rock that will pass us by

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Wes and Shawn start the new year talking about the good news from the James Webb Space Telescope, the Russian rocket that crashed back to Earth and why that's not necessarily bad news, the massive sunspot forming that could cause some problems, 70 orphaned planets roaming through the Milky Way and a significant step towards a Warp Drive becoming a reality

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Part 2: This week Wes and Shawn discuss the biggest space new stories of 2021

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Part 1: This week Wes and Shawn discuss the biggest space new stories of 2021

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Wes and Shawn talk about two incredible discoveries on Mars, another delay for t he JWST and Leonard the Christmas Comet's current location

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Wes and Shawn discuss the Michael Strahan trip to space launch delay, the December sky's bounty of celestial objects, Japan's billionaire astronaut, and a mysterious object found on the Moon.

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Wes and Shawn talk about the Starship engine crisis at SpaceX, the exciting December skies that include geomagnetic storms and a Christmas comet, plus Hubble picking up three images of the same galaxy from three different angles at three different times because of gravitational lensing.

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This week Wes, Shawn and Christian talk about Michael Strahan's upcoming trip to space with Blue Origin, Russia's latest addition to the ISS, the latest "incident" that will delay the JWST's launch and a guy named Zink

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