Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Special Guest:

Dr. Rhys Taylor, Former Arecibo Post Doc; Current research involves looking for galaxies in the 21cm waveband.

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@MorganRehnberg

) Alessondra Springmann (

@sondy

)

This Week's Stories:

Planetary Society Light sail

China's Crazy Plan To Mine The Moon

New Horizons spots Kerberos and Styx

Mexican Satellite Launched on Proton-M Carrier Rocket Likely Lost

ISS Orbit Correction Failed

Air Force set to launch another mysterious X-37B space plane mission

MoonLIGHT lunar laser ranging array to continue work of Apollo

SpaceX gets certified to launch NASA science missions

Officials: Onus on Orbital ATK for Wallops Island Repairs

Bill Nye's plan to bring Carl Sagan's sailing spacecraft to life was funded in a day

The Curiosity Mars rover caught a stunning blue sunset on the Red Planet

Rare cluster of four quasars found

Boeing selects new contractor for CST-100 hatch

A Second Attempt to Boost the ISS

Cassini studies tiny, distant moon Kiviuq

Magnetar Near Supermassive Black Hole Delivers Surprises

Crew Access Tower Coming Together for CST-100

How Mars can have a blue sunset

Russian Mission Control Center Successfully Adjusts ISS Orbit

Standing Stones on a Comet

Ion Electrospray Engines Could Take Cubesats to the Moon and Beyond

It's hard to run a satellite company when your supply rockets keep blowing up

Bolden Criticizes Aspects Of House NASA Funding Bill

NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration

Photonic Laser Thruster Propels Simulated Spacecraft

Circular orbits for small extrasolar planets

OPALS Boosts Space-to-Ground Optical Communications Research

Riddle of comet dust delivered back to Earth

Astronauts practise fire drill aboard Soyuz simulator

Inmarsat First To Feel Ripple Effects of Latest Proton Failure

The first Martian marathon

Russia looks to space future after bruising failures

How astronauts fight fires in space

LightSail Launch and Mission Control

ESO's VLT Sees Beautiful Medusa Nebula

China is planning the first ever landing on the far side of the Moon

140 Years of International Time

LHC Protons set to collide at 13 TeV to prepare for physics

TWiM ViaSat Sees Falcon Heavy as Pacing Item in Growth Plans

'Ocean Worlds Exploration Program': New Budget Proposal Calls for Missions to Europa, Enceladus, and Titan

Congress Seeks Significant Shift in NASA Budget Priorities

Galaxy Shines With The Light of 300 TRILLION Suns! Brightest Ever Found

LightSail Spacecraft sailing on sunbeams begins test flight

Cassini seeks out Saturn's shimmering aurorae

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