Today In Space

In this episode we have alot of space & science to cover! There were so many exciting things that happened in May/June that we are only just catching up. Lot's of 1sts going on lately:

1. Blue Origin's NS21 mission sends the 1st Mexican-born woman to the Edge of Space

2. NASA grows plants in Lunar Regolith for the 1st time. The soil was saved from the Apollo-era missions that brought back moon soil for us to test!

3. The EHT team captures the 1st image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Only the 2nd image EVER taken of a black hole

4. JWST plans to release the first images on July 12th! We discuss an event that happened on May23 & May25 to JWST.

We share another Twitter Spaces clip where we got to ask the team about how the data JWST will take is different from Hubble.

All this and more on this clip from the podcast!

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https://www.11alive.com/article/news/national/first-ever-mexican-born-woman-in-space-katya-echazarreta/285-a373d344-6783-4ed4-8a3f-154d817b5960

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-21-mission-announcement/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/biological-physical/scientists-grow-plants-in-soil-from-the-moon

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/plants-can-grow-in-lunar-soil-but-very-poorly/

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_First_Sgr_A_Results

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-suffers-micrometeoroid-impacts

On this segment of People of Science we welcome Jane Davies to the podcast! Jane is a Masters of Science student researching the Digital Anthropology of 3D printing in Space. Luckily, this podcast is all about that cross-section of humanity and Jane reached out to us! It's been great to have participated in Jane's research and it's awesome to have made a friend through the internet! Jane shares her research, creative process, and insights as a Digital Anthropologist and we discuss humanity and the science around it.

From NASA 3D printing the first wrench in space, to tracking down early Space Artifacts of Earth, the Moon and Mars, we discuss this incredible cross-section of additive manufacturing and human space travel. Jane shared her STEM origin story on how she started in Digital Anthropology at University College London, as well as her interest for a future career in the Space Industry.

All this and more on this episode of the podcast!

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00:00 - Intro to Jane Davies, Digital Anthropology, and the Anthropology of Space 02:09 - STEM Origin Story for Jane and Digital Anthropology 05:04 - we'll put it up on the screen here "are copenhagen and denmark the same thing?" - answer 04:00 - Academics, Advice for future college students 11:00 - Anthropology, Digital-Age Humans, and the study of humanity 14:50 - Anthropology of 3D Printing in space, COSS, Early Space Artifacts (16:05) 17:00 - Terraforming Lunar and Martian Soil, Anthropology of the first space seeds 18:30 - Moon Seeds for Anthropology (19:30 - The 6th Planet, Navajo), NASA's Veggie Lab, 3D Printing in Space (21min) 22:00 - Jane's Research on the first 3D printed objects in Space 23:15 - The 1st 3D printed wrench in Space (where is it?), What are 3D models? 24:30 - Research & Anthropology of Humans (26:20 Tom Bolstorf 2nd Life) 28:05 - Jane's Writing Process, Finding your Creative Method, & the torture of editing 30:10 - Alex's method of mindmapping, Jungian Personality Science (https://www.truity.com/blog/myers-briggs-vs-disc-mental-models-detailed-comparison) 33:04 - The Anthropology of the Metaverse, NFTs, and VR 37:10 - The 3D model of the space wrench Barry Whilmore 38:30 - The potential Environmental & societal impacts of Cryptocurrency 40:00 - What are Anthropologists like? Malinowski 41:40 - Archaeology vs Anthropology 42:30 - Social Skills in Science: Being Curious 44:30 - Takeaways from Jane's research on the first 3D printed part in space 54:00 - 3D printing opens up the individual to ALL the possibilities to make 57:10 - What's next for Jane? Opportunities for Human Science in Space, Tech

On this episode we recap the latest from a busy May in Space, including:

- Boeing's OFT-2 gets a Part DEUX after fixing some valve issues

- James Webb Space Telescope continues Science Instrument commissioning

- Rocket Lab catches their Electron Rocket with a Helicopter and the CAPSTONE spacecraft is on its way to New Zealand for an Artemis/Gateway mission to the Moon

- The AG3D lab gets a new 3D Scanner

We discuss the balance of staying on mission when things get tough, busy, and confusing. JWST is a great story of staying on mission

Have a great week and make sure to spread love and spread science! LLAP

Alex G. Orphanos

The unreal science behind how James Webb aligned its mirrors and go it working https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20358

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

This week we have much to discuss about all things space!

- NASA's Crew 4 launches to the ISS on a SpaceX Falcon9 & Crew Dragon NET April 23 5:26AM ET - NASA's SLS Wet Dress Rehersal gets delayed & we get new launch window possibilties for this summer in Florida at Pad39A - The Jame Webb Telescope team was on Twitter Spaces talking about the cryocooling the MIRI instrument is doing to get it ready for first observations - I got to ask a question live! We share the engineer & scientist answers here - We also discuss the latest projects in the AG3D Printing lab, with out resin 3D printed Falcon9 and our early prototype of our next JWST product for our etsy shop! AG3Dprinting.etsy.com to support the podcast and get a cool 3D printing gift at the same time

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/crew-4_mission_overview.pdf

https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2022/april/rocket-launch-commercial-crew-spacex-crew-4

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/wet-dress-rehearsal-infographic.html

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/36946/20220403/four-lightning-bolts-hit-towers-surrounding-artemis-moon-rocket-nasa.htm

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/4813321160/in/album-72157627124342395/

All this and more on this episode of the podcast!

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This week we discuss the nuanced topic of launch independence, the ability of a single country to continue their space programs regardless of global conflict that might interrupt international partnerships like the ISS and other space ventures. Given the continuing conflict in Ukraine, this story continues to develop. NASA also rolled out the SLS for the first time from the VAB to Pad 39B, which marks a momentus moment for Artemis 1 just around the corner. Looking forward to seeing that rocket in person in a few months! We're trying to go down to Florida and take it all in! Having a moon rocket along with all of our amazing "broomsticks" here in the US provides us an opportunity to continue our progress in space without the need for the Russian Soyuz system.

US launch independence is at an all time strength given the last 10 years of work to allow America to launch its own Astronauts from American soil. What happened? How did we get here? Why are we so lucky? We attempt to answer those question throughout this episode.

We also discuss the challenge others around the world are having now, as missions are getting shuffled now that organizations like ESA & JAXA who might have relied on Russian Soyuz launches to go to space. Even competitive rivals like OneWeb and Starlink are joining together to launch on American rockets to avoid delay and collapse of millions of invested dollars. It is a complex situation, and strangely the Space Force predicted these types of changes in their outline of Space Future 2060 release in 2019.

All this and more on this weeks episode!

https://spacenews.com/u-s-general-starlink-in-ukraine-showing-us-what-megaconstellations-can-do/ https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-delay-mars-sample-return-switch-to-dual-lander-approach/

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On this episode we return with another People of Science segment! This week, we are honored to have Steve Good, the Chief Commercial Officer of Ramon.Space - a company dedicated to bringing software & supercomputing to space. Today Ramon.Space Announces their High-Capacity Space-Resilient Storage Solution to the public.

The boom of interest in space has been helped out by the economical advancements in rocket launches thanks to companies like Spacex - but what happens now?

Steve shares his STEM origin stories and how math & physics connected with him at a young age while his love of space merged into a 25 year career in Aerospace and Satellites. We discuss the business of satellites, orbits, and computing in space - and how the storage solution Ramon.Space is offering for spacecraft can meet the growing need and bridge the gap of our infrastructure needs in space.

If you really want to learn more about satellites and what it takes to launch hardware with 0% failure rate over 50+ missions to space, while also enabling the future of storing, computing, and connecting data in space - look no further!

Brief Review & runthrough of the missions Ramon.Space has supported: Hayabusa 2 TGO Mars Orbiter ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS)

A big thanks to Steve Good & Ramon.Space for joining us and sharing their story!

ramon.space

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After alot of delay we are back for another episode of the podcast. I've been through the ringer with food poisining and other life stuff, as I'm sure you have as well. There was alot to catch up on since our episode to close out January and we review what's new in space this week.

The war in Ukraine and Russia's invasion is terrible, and I do my best to stay in my lane of experitise and share how this affects the space industry. I am no international expert or political scientist but this conflict is already changing the scope of international policies with the global Space Industry being affected directly. We are in strange and difficult times, and the conundrum of space progress repeats. Major Space Progress parallels Major Global Conflict.

We close out by catching up on some of my favorite space news from last month, including a new Director of JPL, a wild year of SpaceX's Starlink so far (the good & the challenging), and the first engineering images of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Thanks for joining us and for sticking around - very much appreciate everyone who listens/shares/follows the podcast....here's to building a fantastic future for all of us.

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a39023180/spacex-lost-40-starlink-satellites-in-a-solar-storm/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media

https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/business/spacex-engineers-in-fiji-for-six-months/

https://twitter.com/katebomb/status/1499176586792292361?s=21

https://twitter.com/astro_jonny/status/1499075541290336269?s=21

This week we are honored to have Jenna Bryant, the Co-Founder of Embedded Ventures and the CEO/General Partner on the podcast. We had Jordan Noone, her Co-Founder and CTO for Embedded at the end of last year (available here). We pick up our conversation about space "beyond launch". We explore Jenna's non-linear STEM original story and discuss how we should be embracing that as the norm, becuase it has become the norm in Tech. Jenna's has seen this first hand in her early days as a Tech Recruiter during the hayday of Silicon Valley, and its helping her and Embedded Ventures shape the future of space with Dual-Use Technologies.

Learn more on this new exciting episode of the all-things space podcast!

https://www.embedded.ventures/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennabryant/

00:15 welcome Jenna Bryant / Embedded Ventures 01:05 outreach STEM 06:45 mentor ship programs, twitch streaming, 08:15 project payload for middle school girls to design test and launch a rocket! 09:45 science is messy 10:45 Juleah kaliski 11:15 stem origin story 12:15 tech agencies in LA 13:15 Jenna's mentor and MySpace 13:45 from tech recruiter to investor, Jordan and Jenna's balance, meeting Jordan noone 17:45 founders become recuiters 18:45 kittycad 20:35 the hype was real for a new CAD innovation 27:45 making money better & smarter 28:55 geeking out about space infrastructure 30:15 every company is becoming a robotics company 31:45 GPS has a risky future, infrastructure, starlink 38:15 BTTF & Deloreans 41:15 materials science will be the future! 44:15 airdropping around the world 46:15 Huntsville influence & space 52:15 nonlinear careers in stem are the norm! 01:00:15 trumpets playing and jazz 01:04:45 final thoughts from Jenna Bryant

This week, there have been some thoughts brewing that I keep circling back to. It's got some layers: What kind of skills will the first humans living on another planet need to survive? What is the first 50-100 years of humans living in space going to be like? If people are living somewhere, they'll need money - what is that going to be like on Mars?

This line of thinking started with the remote assembly of JWST in space by humans on Earth, and tied in with an article from Interesting Engineering that shared a company who is contactless drilling on Earth and hopes to bring it to Mars.

We would LOVE to hear your thoughts, if you have more information and knowledge on the questions we are posing, or want to let us know what you'd like us to explore next!

Mars: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/insight/ https://amp-interestingengineering-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.interestingengineering.com/a-contactless-drilling-robot-can-bore-through-the-hardest-rocks-on-earth

Bill Britton - Cyberskills & Cybersecurity https://youtu.be/pWD_jEBcyUU

James Burk - Mars Society, Mars Coin, MarsVR https://youtu.be/AcSara__aqk

Lex & Elon Part III (i.e. Cryptocurrencies in Space) https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1scA?t=2479

On this week's episode we share some thoughts on just how significant the success of James Webb Space Telescope is so far after being assembled in space on its way to 1 million miles from Earth at L2. There's a lot we will learn about existence after the big bang thanks to JWST, and we know that Hubble changed the way we look at space. Who doesn't have a Hubble pic on their computer?

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We also talk about the difference between Engineers & Scientists, and how they support each other. And of course we share some thoughts about how crazy SpaceX's Starship is as the "chopsticks" of the launch tower are being weight tested before trying to literally catch the most powerful first stage rocket we have ever built...

Thanks for joining us this week! Follow us on social: - @todayinspacepod on instragram & twitter - @todayinspace on TikTok - /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook How to Support the podcast: Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop ag3dprinting.etsy.com Donate at todayinspace.net Share the podcast with friends & family!