Weekly Space Hangout - May 9, 2014: Virtual Universes & Plants for Mars

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Scott Lewis, Morgan Rehnberg, Casey Dreier

This Week's Stories:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@cosmic_chatter

):

A virtual Universe (Illustris)

Cosmos

Rover Plants

Scott Lewis (

@ScientificScott

): One Sky New Earthrise photo

Casey Dreier (

@exploreplanets

,

Planetary.org

):

The House Increases NASA's Budget by half a billion dollars

Planetary Science upped to $1.45B for 2015 in the House

SpaceX scrubbed launch

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