Weekly Space Hangout - Dec. 5, 2014: Orion's Successful Launch!

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@cosmic_chatter

) Ramin Skibba (

@raminskibba

)

This Week's Stories:

Orion launch

Planck conference

conference on dust in "nearby" galaxies Hayabusa 2: A Carbonaceous Asteroid Adventure - Story by Adam: Posted in the Space News Category on Crew

Nature Makes All Articles Free to View

NASA's Cube Quest Challenge Aims to Send Nanosatellites to Lunar Orbit and Beyond on First SLS Flight

Sierra Nevada Completes Dream Chaser's Milestone 15 for Prior Phase of Commercial Crew

Astronomers See Atomic Hydrogen Emission in Galaxies at Record Breaking Distances

Asteroid Brushes the Horsehead Nebula

New Cosmological Theory Goes Inflation-Free?

NASA's Webb Telescope ISIM Gets Cubed for Gravity Test

New Images Refine View of Infant Universe - NY Times

Frontier Fields Finds Faint Light of Homeless Stars

Large Binocular Telescope Detects One of the Faintest NEOs Ever Observed

Strange Galaxy Perplexes Astronomers - NRAO: Revealing the Hidden Universe

The Quest for Organic Molecules on the Surface of 67P/C-G; Ptolemy Data

Stars Above and Earth Below: NASA's Proposed New Airship Competition Good for Science

Ground-Based Detection of Super-Earth Transit Paves Way to Remote Sensing of Small Exoplanets

Surprise within a Cloud: A Very Young Star in the Process of Forming as the Cloud Collapses Under Gravity

ESA's JUICE Mission Receives Approval to Proceed Toward Implementation

New Standards Issued on Blue Light at Night

Laser Link Offers High-Speed Delivery

Researchers Tackle Inner Secrets of Neutron Stars

Mission to discover hundreds of black holes could unlock secrets of the Universe.

Did Philae Graze a Crater Rim During its First Bounce?

Supercomputer Simulation of Magnetic Field Loops on the Sun

Spacetime.Rocks, Online Publishing Media Dedicated to Space and Astrophysics News in India

A Colorful Gathering of Middle-aged Stars

NanoRacks: Learning How Our Solar System Formed, from Inside the International Space Station

Journey to the Center of the Milky Way

Chilean Astronomers Using @ALMA Observatory Discover New Hints About Massive Star Formation

Australian and Korean Telescopes Connected for Detailed Vew of the Universe

Seeing into the Heart of Mira A and its Partner

Gas cloud in the galactic center is part of a larger gas streamer

Is Dark Energy Gobbling Dark Matter, and Slowing Universe's Expansion?

Black Holes Seem to Know Their Place in the Cosmic Web

Making Gravity-Free Espresso in Space Really is Rocket Science

Friends in Space Social Network

SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Ready for Action

NASA Announces New Opportunities for Public Participation in Asteroid Grand Challenge

Final Assembly Begins for NASA's Next Mars Lander: InSight

A Mission to Europa Just Got a Whole Lot More Likely

Virginia May Seek Federal Funds for Wallops Spaceport Repairs

FRR Gives "Go" For Flight Test While Teams Prep for Recovery

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Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.