TMRO:Space

The always energetic and information powerhouse Dr. Kirby Runyon joins us to talk about New Horizons, Yuris Night and announces the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Interstellar Probe. It's a really fun and exciting interview, and we had a bit of stuff we missed in After Dark so we left a bit of that in there at the end as well.

This week we are joined by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Program Scientist Dr. Eric Smith. We talk about the most ambitious space telescope project humans have ever undertaken, and why when we get the first images back it will likely just be 18 fuzzy blobs.

Sorry this is later than normal, but we had a lot going on and I wanted to get it in the show. This week we have NASA's plans to send humans back to the moon in 5 years. Will it be on SLS or a commercial rocket?

Asteroid Bennu looks to be a lot more complex than originally thought, and that may spell trouble for OSIRIS-REx.

And what is the latest way that space wants to kill you? Superbugs!

In Traffic this week we had:Vega rocket with PRISMAOneWeb OS-M launch with CubesatsElectron launch with R3D2

And as always we close out our show with the latest Space Weather from Dr. Tamitha Skov.

Momentus is building the in-space equivalent of the connecting flight. Use a big rocket to fly to a common orbit on a cheap rideshare, then use their in-space rocket to get your satellite to any custom orbit 10 times cheaper than what has ever been possible.

Space historian and author Rod Pyle joins us once more to talk about  settling our solar system via Space 2.0. We go in to the private space  sector, NASA and the recent SLS/Orion announcements as well as some fun  stories from Rod.  

If you're interested in Rod Pyle's books you can see those here: https://www.pylebooks.com/  

Or for more information on the National Space Society, you can read up and join them here: https://space.nss.org/

Welcome to our weekly Space News program from TMRO. There was a lot of exciting stuff happening in the cosmos this week!

Space Traffic00:16 Long March 3B Launch01:09 SpaceX DM-1 Mission Deports ISS and lands04:04 Beresheet Lander Update

Space News:05:09 Exos Aerospace Sub Orbital Launch08:24 NASA is looking at using existing rockets for EM-1 Mission10:44 InSight's HFP Hits A Rock, Literally

13:36 Space Weather

This week Dr Tanya Harrison joins us to talk about the science of Mars and her experiences working on various Mars missions such as Opportunity, Curiosity, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the upcoming Mars 2020 rover.

We also talk about how Arizona State University is promoting collaboration between industry and academia through their NewSpace Initiative.

What a great week for us space nerds! A lot happened and we have some special hosts this week to help us cover it all.

Space Traffic:Soyuz launches OneWeb SatellitesSpaceX launches DM-1 to the International Space Station

Space News:A Busy Galactic CoreSunscreen for the MoonEarth's Overachieving Atmosphere

Space Weather

This week Space Mike brings us the latest Space Traffic in our local Solar System including a Soyuz flight that may have had an anomaly, SpaceX Falcon 9 with a mission to the moon and Virgin Galactic's latest test flight with a first non-test pilot astronaut passenger! And if you would like more information on that SpaceIL update, you can see our Space News episode from February 6th right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8pHwRqRcY&feature=youtu.be&t=647

Jared Head updates us on Hayabusa-2's mission to Ryugu and its sample that will be coming back to Earth in the next couple of years.

Sarah Vincent has a NASA Science update on synthetic DNA

And finally Dr. Tamitha Skov updates on on the latest Space Weather for this week.

This week we bring on Dr. Tamitha Skov to talk about Space Weather and it's impact on your daily life. We also go over how she got started and her journey to becoming the Space Weather Woman.

This episode has been edited to remove technical issues and re-organized for better flow.