![]() The third and final part of a series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes region of the lunar highlands in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show. Gavin Schmidt, Acting Senior Climate Advisor at NASAĪstronaut reflections on seeing the Earth from space: “The only border that matters is this thin blue line of atmosphere that blankets and protects us all” ~ Nicole Stott OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) 2 and 3 Reduced air pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic and a sharp decline in precipitation in the western United States James Webb Space Telescope imaged by GaiaĪIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite) The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International Space Station Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes 28 flights across Mars Hayabusa2 (the asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA) sample analysis reveals the presence of organic material (amino acids), the building blocks of life NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) spacecraft is in transit from California to Rocket Lab’s launch complex 1B on the Mahia Peninsula in New ZealandĪ report on the first two years of Yutu-2, the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the far side of the Moon NOAA’s GOES-18 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) launchedĭSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite.Īstronaut reflections on seeing the Earth from space: Luca Parmitano Italian and ESA astronaut National Science Foundation and the Event Horizon Telescope project joint media conference to announce the successful imaging of Sagittarius A* It is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, visually close to the Butterfly Cluster and Lambda Scorpii. Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A*, is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* black hole is imaged for the first time: Sam Ryder with “Space Man”, the United Kingdom’s entrant in Eurovision 2022, which placed second behind Ukraine Italian and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station, sends her greetings to the Eurovision Song Contest being held in Turin, Italy The research paper was published on May 12 in the journal, Communications Biology.Įurovision 2022 (yes, there are space/astrophysics links): The plants showed visible and genetic signs of "stressful" growing conditions. ![]() More than 50 years after astronauts brought the last rock samples to Earth from the Moon, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil from three different Apollo missions for the first time. Taken from the documentary “Moonshot” based on the book of the same name by Donald “Deke” Slayton.įor the first time ever, researchers have grown plants in nutrient poor lunar regolith: Jim Greene in conversation with Dr Anna-Lisa Paul. Scott Carpenter and Mercury Atlas 7: A feature celebrating the 60th anniversary of the second U.S. James Webb Space Telescope: An overview of the scientific instrument package Jackie Carpenter (Director, One Giant Leap Australia) ![]() Andy Koronios (Dean of Industry and Enterprise, University of South Australia, Adelaide) Michael Smart (Chair, Hypersonic Propulsion HyShot Group, University of Queensland, Brisbane) Anna Moore (Director, Institute for Space, ANU, Canberra) ![]() Michael Pakakis (Director, Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Melbourne) Alan Duffy (Swinburne University, Melbourne) The Future Australian Space Workforce and its Development panel at the Space Industry Association of Australia conference:Īssoc. Vangelis was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing the scores to the film Blade Runner (1982), music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey - Mythodea (2001), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. The artist, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. The Space Show is sad to report the death of Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou last week, at the age of 79. For 31 years, The Space Show has used as its opening theme, “Motion of Stars” by Vangelis.
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