Space Gab Podcast

Apollo 11 astronaut and command module pilot Michael Collins has left this earth for a final time, Family statement regarding the passing of astronaut Michael Collins, The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has taken a picture of the Mars Rover Perseverance during the third flight above the surface of Mars, Now two companies have filed protests in selection of SpaceX for Human Landing System, SpaceX Starship SN15 static fire complete. Flight next, SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon undocking delayed, Liftoff of ULA Delta 4 Heavy with secret payload, Another chance for SpaceX fanboys to scream. A Chinese rocket in development, A super pink moon, Russian Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome with 36 OneWeb broadband satellites, Satellites are littering our solar system at a rapid speed, China's lunar rover on the moon A look see, Bigfoot, Minnesota Iceman.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has successfully made a second flight above the surface of the planet, SpaceX Crew Dragon with Crew-2 to launch 23 Apr, Two big efforts on Mars pay off, Me on Earthday a few years ago, A space based grenade, SLS on the move, Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030 if President Vladimir Putin gives the go-ahead, Wow, to the moon with only 1/4 funding, Army plan to use LEO satellites for special purposes, Boeing Starliner test flight delayed, The nuclear option is a possibility, A quick look at the Russian reusable rocket. Looks like fins to help control direction. The SpaceX fanboys will be screaming, China wants to launch its own Hubble-class telescope as part of space station, Amazon selects ULA Atlas 5 for 9 Kuiper missions, Russia joins China's mission to sample an asteroid and study a comet, NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program!

Today's Blue Origin New Shepard crew prodecure certification/verification, rocket launch, rocket landing, and crew spacecraft landing, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin to develop competing spacecraft concepts for a demonstration of nuclear thermal propulsion, Astronaut who strongly disagreed with the decision to build the Space Shuttle, and suggested science experiments for Apollo missions, passed away, Big deal for imaging satellite constellation, SpaceX Starlink launches from the west coast, Astrobotic announces the selection of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon, Northrop Grumman robotic MEV-2 spacecraft, in a first, catches active Intelsat satellite, Mars helicopter Ingenuity flight delayed for software updates, SpaceX abandons catching fairings, China's space station dates, Weather on Mars via Perseverance, NASA budget is increased for FY2022, The FAA has recommended some Boeing 737 MAX aircraft be taken out of service due to an electrical problem, 10 people on board the ISS now, Name changes for ER and WR.

NASA Orion spacecraft drop tested for data prior to Artemis II, Such a cool gif of Mars Perseverance and Ingenuity, ISS solar arrays arrive and are being prepared for launch, SpaceX Starlink launch happened today, Weather report on Mars done by media station, On Friday a crew will launch to ISS, Just days away from Ingenuitys first flight, An RS-25 rocket engine test at Stennis Space Center, This is purported to be China's Mars Rover, I was able to share last night's ISS pass over Sacramento with my mom, Methane leaked caused last weeks SpaceX Starship SN11 explosion, Resurrected a 1980's Sony ICF-7601 12 band radio that was my father's, The Russian government approved extending an agreement on cooperation in space with the United States until December 2030, Update on work at ISS concerning air leak, SpaceX treasures fall from the sky, US Space Command and Japan sign space security agreement, Security helicopter fleet for Florida launch operations.

Coverage starts with parts on the ground (pre-launch), and ends with parts on the ground (post-crash) The continual cycle of Starship coverage, As a child astronaut John Glenn slept on a space related pillowcase, Man gets exclusive video from underneath SpaceX Starship SN11 rocket and posts on YouTube, Mars Helicopter almost ready to be place on surface of Mars for first flight, Congress, can we talk to China? It's about space, Inspiration4 team selected and announced, Elon Musk sends out the welcome wagon while feathering his nest egg, National Space Council will be renewed, SpaceX crew Dragon at ISS to be moved, Artifacts that rode with Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 on their trip to moon orbit. As seen at the Aerospace Museum of California, Going through my late fathers things I came across some newspapers from the Apollo 11 moon landing. Cool to read about it again as it happened!, New spacecraft, Space Utility Vehicle, South Korea to launch robotic lunar lander.

Full speed ahead SLS Artemis, Bluestaq wins $280 million Space Force contract to expand space data catalog, Agreement for 5G networking in space info sharing, NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight, North Korea Conducts 1st Missile Test Under Biden Administration, Italy to open US office for outsourcing launch ground services, SpaceX deployed another 60 Starlink satellites, SpaceX Starlink satellites to be maneuvered away from ISS, Space Force acquisition programs in near future, Rocket Lab successfully places satellites into orbit, SpaceX Starship SN11 static fire test, Soyuz launch puts 38 satellites into orbit, Mission to clean up space junk with magnets set for launch, Large decommissioned satellite breaks up into orbiting space debris, NASA SLS hot fire test as seen from space, NASA administrator possibility, Space station crew will take their Soyuz spacecraft for a spin, AFRL focus on space.

The sounds of Mars Perseverance Rover driving on the surface of Mars, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight zone selected, Relativity Space was selected to launch a small U.S. military payload to orbit in 2023 using a 3D-printed rocket, Debris Found on Brevard Beach Came From Delta III Launch in 1998, Wearing green and growing green on the ISS, Paraguay’s First Satellite Deployed From the International Space Station, China to construct commercial spaceport to support booming space industry, March 18th for scheduled SLS hot fire test, SpaceX may have offered its Starship rocket for an upcoming 6 cubesat launch in a NASA proposal, FAA says "No public safety concerns..." SN10 mishap, Live like you're in space, Russia looks to China as new space exploration partner, Another SpaceX Starlink launch, NASA released a 2.9-ton cargo pallet with old batteries from the International Space Station this week, the most massive object ever jettisoned from the complex.

SpaceX targeting today 3 March for test flight of Starship SN10, Eccentric fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa is looking for applicants from around the world to take a seat on a trip to the moon on a SpaceX Starship flight in 2023,LiDAR system to monitor CO2 will be part of a near future Chinese satellite, Chinese commercial launch company iSpace said Monday that an errant piece of foam insulation caused the loss of its Hyperbola-1 launch vehicle, Not before May for second unpiloted test flight for Boeing Starliner, Rocket Lab reveals plans for reusable rocket with 8 ton payload, Kentucky firm plans orbital mini space station in two years, Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket is delayed for years, China is preparing to launch the first module of Tiangong next month, with construction of the entire space station expected to complete in 2022, Tear in astronauts glove during spacewalk causes some concern but measures were taken to finish, ESA is looking for new astronauts, Heat damage caused failed SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landing, Virgin Galactic to experience some delays in test flights and space tourism efforts, 3D printed rocket to take payloads to orbit?

NASA released videos pictures and the first sound recording from the surface of Mars, A microphone captured a wind gust passing over the Perseverance rover after it landed last week, SpaceX Falcon 9 static fire test prior to Sunday launch, SpaceX Starship SN10 performed a static fire test today. Maybe a launch is next?, Second astronaut crew member selected for Inspiration4 orbital mission, Cygnus cargo spacecraft at the ISS, Delay of Boeing Starliner second uncrewed test flight due to damage, Juno Just Saw a Spacerock Crash Into Jupiter, Antenna damage on the recent Progress cargo spacecraft was cause for automated docking issues, An opposition to the acquisition of Aerojet Rdyn by Lockheed Martin in the works, Delay in launch of NASA asteroid deflection experiment spacecraft, A Russia/China International lunar research station in the works, Axiom Space gets additional funding for their future space station project, SpaceX Falcon 9 booster experienced an anomaly during reentry burn, Videos of China's #Tianwen1 as it enters orbit around Mars.

Mars Probes in the news, China Tianwen-1 and UAE Hope Probe both were insterted into the orbit of Mars this week, Submarine missile launch test seen, DARPA and large structures on the moon, NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) the foundational elements of the Gateway, ABL Space Systems will conduct a launch for Lockheed Martin from a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands, fulfilling an agreement with the British government announced in 2018, Progress 76P MS-15 cargo spacecraft undocked from ISS and performed reentry, NASA and 3 partners to search for ice deposits under Mars surface, precursor to humans landing, Did you know the first US astronaut in space, Alan Shephard, had his and his wife's ashes buried at sea, Sierra Nev Corp DreamChaser gets 1st FAA commercial re-entry site license for NASA Kennedy Space Florida, Cape Canaveral Spaceport SLF, Meteorite-crazy celebs morph into rock collectors, NASA SLS received another booster, China's Chang'e-4 and Yutu-2 activities again on the lunar surface, New space podcasts out there, Oh the things astronauts take with them to the moon. Have you heard the story about the peanut that went to the moon and back, AIRBUS gets contract to produce 3 more service modules for Orion spacecraft,  Congressional staffers were briefed by the FAA on the SpaceX FAA launch license violation and more, Talk show host Heather Wade has called it quits with The Kingdom Of Nye. Wade announced her departure on her website, Col. Mark Shoemaker, commander of the 45th Operations Group at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station said that the Eastern Range is ready for quicker turnarounds between launches from Florida’s Space Coast, Newspace India Limited (NSIL) PSLV-C51 is scheduled to launch Amazonia-1 and 20 Co-passenger satellites on February 28 2021 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, NASA selects Firefly Space to deliver suite of science and technology demonstrations to the moon, NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SPHEREx Astrophysics Mission to SpaceX.