Weekly Space Hangout - October 18, 2013: Penny4NASA, SpaceX Plans, ISON Lives!

By Fraser Cain - October 18, 2013 at 6:47 PM UTC | Site News

This week for the Weekly Space Hangout, we were joined by an impressive team of space journalists and special guest John Zeller, the Founder of Space Advocates - they're best known for their

Penny4NASA campaign

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We discussed the government shutdown, cool reusable spacecraft and electric aircraft, exoplanets, non-killer asteroids, tilted planets and much much more.

Host: Fraser Cain

Special Guest:

John Zeller, Founder of Space Advocates

Journalists: Alan Boyle, Brian Wang, David Dickinson, Elizabeth Howell

Government Shutdown Ends

SpaceX Reusable Spacecraft

Kepler Tilted Planets

1000 Exoplanets

Microairports with Electric VTOL Aircraft

Asteroid 2013 TV135

Upcoming Lunar Eclipse

Upcoming Solar Eclipse

We organize the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday afternoon at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch it on Universe Today, Google+ or the

Universe Today YouTube channel

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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.