This week in space news: Space X has a brilliant week with Dragon but a bad week with Starship Super-heavy, 30 years of Hubble, a strange week at NASA and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Planetary Radio: Celebrating 30 Years of Hubble with Astronaut John Grunsfeld

Main Engine Cut-Off: The Artemis Accords, Doug Loverro Resigns

Time To Eat The Dogs: A Strange Week at NASA

From the video store:

Historic moment: Space X sends its first manned mission to the ISS...

...but also manages to explode another prototype (they already have two more being built to replace it):

Here's a tour of where their Dragon space capsule is going:

Just some really nice music...

First ever map of Mars' faint magnetic field:

A great tour of Orion:

Reading material:

Yes, there IS an Earth sized planet orbiting in the goldilocks zone of the nearest solar system to ours... 

Fun fact: Russia ignite their rockets with what are (basically) huge matches...

Strange clouds on Venus

A new kind of cosmic explosion found

New Sunspots herald increased Solar activity

This week in space news: Crew dragon passes critical test, looking for pieces of Mars, Atacama from Space and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Awesome Astronomy May 2020 roundup

Planetary Radio: Crew Dragon deep dive.

We Martians: The quest for a piece of Mars

Off Nominal: There's always money in VAB

From the video store:

SpaceX's SN4 prototype test fires its engine

Become a (micro)meteorite hunter

Pictures of a baby planet:

Atacama from space

NASA's space-to-ground report

Reading material:

Doug Loverro: Was he pushed or did he jump?

SpaceX's first manned flight passes critical test...

... and their super-heavy-lift rocket could fly this year 

Every spaceship that has carried humans into orbit

OSIRIS-ReX will capture a chunk of asteroid Bennu on October 20th

How to find a meteorite

Virgin Orbit aims for it's first trip to, uh, orbit

D-Orbit preps for in-orbit transportation business with upcoming Arianespace and SpaceX launches

This week in space news: Lockdown astronomy, SpaceX prototype passes cryogenic test, preserved water from other worlds, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Planetary Radio: Looking for life in alien oceans

We Martians: Persevering through ATLO

Time To Eat The Dogs: China goes to the Moon

365 Day's Of Astronomy: Lock down astronomy questions and answers

Everyday astronaut podcast: Metric VS Imperial - The REAL reason NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars

From the video store:

SpaceForce is recruiting:

Why the Star Wars sequel trilogy was doomed from the start:

New Trek show 'Lower Decks'

Reading material:

Likely camping spot on Mars found

Northrup Grumman's Cygnus supply ship leaves ISS to become independent space platform

Best ever view of Jupiter in infra red

SpaceX's SN4 prototype passes second pressure test

Alkaline waters from ancient worlds

U.S. Airforce's X37B spaceplane to launch on Sunday...

...and it's testing a way of beaming solar power to Earth

Testing the Astrobee robotic helper

Lake Powell from space

Mars may well have pockets of brine today

Courtesy of https://www.spaceweather.com/ :

FIREBALL PARALLAX: Strange but true: The three fireballs in the image below are all the same meteor. During last month's Lyrid meteor shower, an unusually big piece of Comet Thatcher disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere over Slovakia. Three photographers located in three different towns photographed the fireball, and one of them, Tomas Slovinsky, combined the three photos into a single image:

"This composite image beautifully illustrates the effect of parallax on the apparent position of the meteor," says Slovinsky. "The three fireballs were photographed from Zilina (shortest one), Zbojska, and Kosice (longer one) - all with different paths and lengths on the sky."

Using the three images, the team of photographers was able to reconstruct the physical path of the meteor through the atmosphere, and they found a surprise. "While ordinary meteors disintegrate 60-90km above the ground, this one started to burn much higher: 121km above the ground," says Slovinsky. "We believe this is due to the meteor's high speed, which we measured to be 27km/s (60,000 mph)."

Thanks to Tomas Slovinsky, Robert Barsa, and Pavol

This week in space news: NASA announces lunar lander contracts, China's new spacecraft completes test flight, how to catch an interstellar asteroid, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts: 

Main Engine Cut Off: Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX Win NASA Lunar Lander Contracts 

Planetary Radio: Countdown to Crew Dragon capsule launch begins

SpacePod: The whole world to a microbe

From the video store:

 

Reading material:

How to catch an interstellar asteroid

Stunning images of Jupiter's clouds

New pictures from lightsail 2

Key organic molecules for life found in Martian meteorite

NASA laser mission measures ice loss

Prosthetic limbs that feel

Results from Japanese mission to asteroid Ryugu

This week in space news: SpaceX's new rocket finally passes cryo testing, why alien worlds could be lurking in your gutter, restartable solid fuel rockets, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts

We Martians: A new science paradigm

Main Engine Cutoff: An interview with the CEO of Marsten Space Systems

Time To Eat The Dogs: China to the Moon

From the video store

How to collect meteorites from your gutter

Sunrise from space...

Lyric meteor shower

Testing Virgin Galactic's space fleet...

Superconducting levitation

NASA selects three companies to build manned Lunar landers

Reading material

Game changer: Restartable solid fuelled rocket motor

Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 glides over Mojave Spaceport

Is the Sun having a mid-life crisis?

A guide to stargazing during lockdown

Lunar rock to go on sale

Think space needs to be high tech and expensive?

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Well meet the school kids of Earth To Sky Calculus, who send all sorts of things (and science experiments) to the edge of the atmosphere using weather balloons...

Personal items... 

 

Toy diggers... 

Jewelry... 

And Snoopy...

This isn't just a high school science project: Their team send all kinds of items to the edge of space, and raise funds by doing so, and getting people to sponsor them you can check out all of their videos here.