TMRO:Space

#MarsLifestyle asks, when you go to Mars what will you miss most from Earth? When you come back to Earth what will you miss most from Mars?

In Space News we have:

* India flies experimental mini sub-orbital space plane

* Soyuz rocket lifts off with new Galileo satellites

* Falcon 9 Launches Thaicom 8

* Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher

* BEAM bummer and success!

* Delta 4 launch postponed and the Cubesat competition URL is http://www.ulalaunch.com/cubesats.aspx

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Jared, Cariann and Mike talk about Planetary Defense and what we’re doing to save planet Earth from big, nasty objects in space!

In Space News we have:

* Long March 2D Launches Yaogan-30

* New Horizons collects first science on a post-Pluto object

* Orbital ATK reveals Cislunar Habitat Plan

* NASA directly observes fundamental process of nature for first time

* Lockheed Martin announces Mars Base

* First German commander among astronauts named for station flights

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TMRO Correspondent Lisa Stojanovski spins a tale on the potential problems of artificial gravity, and why we don’t have a centrifuge module on the International Space Station.

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This week we bring on Dave Distler to talk about the EMDrive once more. REMEMBER: DAVE IS A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL — DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BUILD YOUR OWN EMDRIVE AT HOME!

Dave advanced through three high-tech RF & Microwave manufacturing companies in 35 years. He started out as a technician, then Quality Control, Sales and Applications Engineering, to Sale and Marketing Manager and finally to Product Line Manager. He has traveled worldwide extensively and met with high level Engineers designing and testing transmission and receive systems for Military, Aerospace, Space and Commercial systems. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio License and has built and designed a variety of high power RF Systems. Today, he is semi-retired and enjoys returning to his roots in electronics with designing, building and testing what he at first considered an implausible Electromagnetic Propulsion device.

In Space News we have:

* Falcon 9 launches with JCSAT-14 – lands another stage

* Departure of Europe’s First Mars Rover delayed to 2020

* Russian rocket recovery is a bit different than SpaceX

* SpaceX to test recovered stage on SLC-39A

* Rare Transit of Mercury to Take Place on May 9th

* July – 1st flight of new Antares Rocket

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This week, Space Mike examines Swiss Space Systems and their various plans to achieve affordable access to space for everyone.

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This week the crew of TMRO talks about the seemingly impossible EM Drive. Could this be the technology that allows humanity to truly visit the stars?

In Space News:

* Orbital ATK wants to use old ICBM’s with mixed responses

* SpacePlane

* Environmental testing underway for JPSS 1 launching in January

* Aerojet Rocketdyne tapped to build high-power ion drive

* Nasa Space Apps Challenge 2016

* Gamma-ray space telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources

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This week we bring on guest John Benac, Managing Director of Vote For Space. For more information on Vote For Space hit up their website at http://www.voteforspace.com

In Space News we have:

* Russian billionaire devotes $100 million to star flight initiative

* Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum

* Binary star discovered approaching galactic escape velocity

* BEAM installed on ISS

* Bigelow Aerospace partners with ULA to launch private space habitats

* Chain of onboard failures dooms Hitomi – Kepler Returns

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A new tool has been delivered to the International Space Station by the Cygnus spacecraft. Stick around to hear TMRO correspondent Lisa Stojanovski explain how they work, and how they might allow robots to spring around spacecrafts.

No animals were harmed in the making of this Space Pod. Special thanks to Roaming Reptile Education for their help. Check them out at http://www.roamingreptileeducation.com.au/

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With Blue Origin, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Masten Space Systems all working on reusable rockets we ask: are we watching the reusability rocketry renaissance unfold?

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In Space News we have:

* SpaceX CRS-8 Launch and Landing

* Blue Origin Launch and Landing

* Beidou Satellite launched via LongMarch 3A

* Progress Launch via Soyuz

* Shijian 10 Launch via Long March 2D

* US Military rules out collision as cause of Hitomi satellite’s woes

* ExoMars safely on its way after an upper-stage explosion

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This week Lisa Stojanovski explains why scientists are creating the largest experimental fire ever in space. The Saffire-1 experiment will commence after the Cygnus vehicle (named the S.S Rick Husband) has left the International Space Station, giving us a greater understanding of fires in space.

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