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TIS#043 07/30/15 Weekly Update & Where Spacecraft Go to Die...


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Weekly Update/ Lightning Round Welcome back! Alex brings a Weekly Update of what's up in Space this week. This includes Reboot the Suit, the UK Space Agency's New Plan, some space junk & another Pluto Update. This week's lightning round comes in at 175 bpm with some trap beats, some bass & a piano. Entitled "Where Spacecraft Go to Die..." New to Podcasting? Check out our "Beginner's Guide" to get you going & subscribed on iPhone, Android & Computer/Laptop! WHAT THE HELL IS A PODCAST?! ON EARTH:
  1. Reboot the Suit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smithsonian/reboot-the-suit-bring-back-neil-armstrongs-spacesu/description
    • http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/248941
    • http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/living/smithsonian-armstrong-space-suit-kickstarter-feat/
  2. Blue Moon this Friday - Look up! http://www.space.com/30083-blue-moon-full-moon-friday.html
  3. The UK Space Agency's new National Space Strategy http://www.space.com/30042-uk-space-agency-national-strategy.html?cmpid=514648 A look at Tim Peake: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-britain-uks-first-official-astronaut-major-tim-peake-on-tweeting-like-chris-hadfield-and-missing-his-wife-and-sons-8623957.html Link to the UK Space Agency's Strategy Document https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/442462/Space_Environments_and_Human_Spaceflight_Strategyv2.pdf
IN ORBIT:
  1. Space Junk & Mission Prep on the ISS - an Update: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/07/27/station-avoids-satellite-fragment-spacewalk-preps-start/
  2. The $5 Trillion Dollar Asteroid that went by us the other day... http://www.space.com/30074-trillion-dollar-asteroid-2011-uw158-earth-flyby.html?cmpid=514648
PLUTO! ...AN UPDATE:
  1. Color-Coded maps of Pluto & Charon http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/the-vader-crater#.qh0Alx4aD
  2. Halo of Atmosphere on a Backlit Pluto as New Horizons Flies By http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150724

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