TMRO:Space

The New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule is an amazing extension of the spacecrafts original mission -- But did you know that almost didn't happen? Find out how Hubble saved the day thanks to a creative use of director's discretion.

No more launch minutes! Those are moving to their own segments that will be released on Fridays prior to the show! Live shows will be conversations with guest interviewees and guest hosts!

Topics covered today:Ultima Thule MissionChina's Chang'e-4 mission on the far side of the moonLaunchPad Astronomy with Christian Ready - @launchpadastro

Mike, Cariann, Jared, Jade, Benjamin and the community of TMRO take a look back at our favorite cosmic events of 2018 and look froward to 2019.

Launch Minute:

Electron | ELaNa 19

Soyuz ST-A | CSO 1

GSLV Mk.2 | GSAT 7A

Long March 11 | Hongyun-1

Space News:

2018 in review

Looking forward to 2019

New Horizons and Ultima Thule are about to get REAL CLOSE

Astronomers find most distant Solar System body to date

Soyuz MS-09 Crew makes it home Safe

Faint glow generated by galaxy clusters helps map dark matter

Former NASA Deputy Chief Technologist Jim Adams joins us for story time. We talk about the planetary status of Pluto, the Kármán line, how moist the solar system seems to be, microbial life on Mars and so much more!

Launch MinuteEverything scrubbed this week... But get ready for next week with SIX scheduled launches! Yikes!

Space News:

Welcome to Space, Spaceship 2

Cosmonauts perform Soyuz Surgery

Voyager 2 is interstellar

Xtronaut Chief Science Officer and Principle Investigator for the OSIRIS-Rex mission Dante Lauretta joins us to talk about NASA's Mission to Bennu as well as his new STEM card game on Kickstarter: Downlink - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/827615927/downlink-the-game-of-planetary-discovery

Launches:

Soyuz FG | Soyuz MS-11

Falcon 9 | SSO-A

Ariane 5 | GSAT-11

Falcon 9 | CRS-16

Long March 2D | SaudiSat 5A and 5B

Long March 3B | Chang'e 4

Space News:

Moist Mysteries from Space

Russia to the Moon by 2040

New Planets

Michael Clark, Sarah Vincent, Jade Kim, Benjamin Higginbotham, Cariann Higginbotham and Jared Head join us for a round table about space geekery! This week we chat about Exoplanets and their tools for discovery, Russia sending a 3D Bio Printer up to space station, Mars 2020 landing site has been chosen and Mars goo is great for your face!

Launch Minutes:

Long March 3B | Beidou

Vega | Mohammed VI-B

Long March 2D | Shiyan 6

In our space news roundtable this week we talk about NASA's unfunded Space Act Agreement with the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Exploding Magnetotails, mass extinction in Atacama due to rain and what that means for Mars, animal reaction to solar eclipses and NASA vs China in the race back to the moon.

The roundtable this week is run by Jared Head with Michael Clark, Sarah Vincent, Athena Brensberger, Jade Kim and Cariann Higginbotham.

Launch Minute:

Electron | It's Business Time

GSLV Mk III | GSAT-29

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Es'Hail-2

Soyuz-FG | Progress MS-10 / 71P

Antares 230 | Cygnus NG-10

We continue the round table format. Trying to tighten it up a bit but still make it conversational. This week we have Sarah Vincent, Michael Clark (in studio,) Benjamin Higginbotham, Cariann Higginbotham and Jared Head all leading the discussion. And of course YOU, the community of TMRO!

Launch Minute:

Soyuz | GLONASS

Soyuz | MetOp-C

Space News and Conversations:

Europa's Plumes Are Confusingly Cold

New research into Mars' perchlorates

Parker Solar Probe Completes Perihelion No. 1

Floods on Mars

SpaceX tests new recovery ship, spacesuits and simulators, and Elon teases mini-BFS

We tweaked the roundtable news format a bit. Still working on timing for this as clearly we're going suuuuuuuper long. But fun nonetheless. Lisa, Mike, Cariann, Jared and Benjamin nerd out over the latest comic happenings while interacting with the community! Would love your feedback and what we're doing right and wrong here.

Launch Minute:

Zhuque-1 | Weilai-1

Long March 2C | CFOSat

H-IIA | GOSAT-2

Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G1Q/GEO-1

Space News:

First 8K footage from space

Goodbye Dawn, Goodbye Kepler

Investigation completed on the Soyuz MS-10 launch failure

Science at 28163 km per hour - ISS Science Update

Yep, We've Got A Black Hole

This is the episode of the season where we have the ultimate answer to the life universe and everything! I had also been eager to try a new news format that was more round-table and conversational. Since there was no standard guest this week we made it happen! Let me know what you think in the comments. A bit long, but overall I liked it!

Launch Minute:

Soyuz 2.1B | Lotos-S1 | Kosmos-2528

Long March 4B | Haiyang 2B

Space News:

NASA is preparing for Hubble's return

This is your brain on space

NASA seeking Lunar Gateway Cargo Delivery

Hayabusa-2 prepares for Ryugu touchdown

Major first step for Pluto Orbiter Mission

First Image of Mars taken by a CubeSat

Virgin's LauncherOne and SpaceShipTwo edging closer to space

Mat Kaplan (@planrad) joins us to talk about the Planetary Society, LightSail 1, 2 and beyond. Jared and Mat dive deep in to why the Planetary Society matters and how it can impact you!

Launch Minute:

Long March 3B/YZ-1 Launches Beidou-3 M15 & M16

Atlas V launches AEHF-4

Ariane 5 launches BepiColombo

Space News:

Most massive and oldest blob of galaxies has been discovered

Rocket Lab building new launch pad at Wallops

Supernova time, but this one formed a BINARY