SpaceX News Pod

A senior NASA official said Tuesday that the Space Launch System, a huge heavy-lift rocket years behind schedule, could launch astronauts on a moon landing mission in 2024 on just its third flight to meet a goal announced last month by Vice President Mike Pence, while commercial companies will be entrusted with more responsibility to develop a lunar lander and a modest mini-space station, or Gateway, in lunar orbit.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

Blue Moon is Blue Origins secret project that will send humans back to the moon by 2024. They also spoke about new glen, their heavy lift rocket. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast http://spacenewspod.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

 Jeff Bezos Amazon Billionaire Planning Moon Mission with Blue Origin to mine for water ice and establish settlement. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 6) to deliver nearly 3 tons of NASA supplies to the orbiting laboratory.  Astronauts on the station captured the uncrewed Dragon cargo ship with a robotic arm at 7:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) as both spacecraft sailed 254 miles (408 kilometers) above the north Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft is carrying about 5,500 lbs. ( 2,495 kilograms) of experiments and other supplies for the station's six-person Expedition 59 crew. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://youtube.com/spacenewspod #NASA #SpaceX #technology --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

NASA recently looked into an asteroid impact scenario where a large body collides with New York City. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

Tesla is showing signs of slowing down in the first quarter of 2019. They will need to ramp up production to make money in the summer and fall of this year. http://spacenewspod.com https://youtube.com/spacenewspod https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

Regarding the risks of space colonization, harm to our biology is first on the list of concerns, followed by risks to our individual psyches and our ability to work cooperatively as a team. Space is a risky place, given the far-from-optimal conditions of long flights in compact spacecraft. There are plenty of challenges that prospective astronauts should cautiously consider before signing up for a trip to deep space. http://spacenewspod.com https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

 The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is the largest known super-structure in the universe. It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern. It is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick. It is about 10 billion light-years away in the constellations of Hercules and Corona Borealis, hence its name. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

SpaceX has been given the thumbs-up from the Federal Communications Commission to start building global internet service via thousands of satellites that could offer internet to anyone on the planet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

An asteroid named 16 Psyche, was found to be made almost entirely of iron and nickel. That means, in current US markets, 16 Psyche is worth somewhere around $10,000 quadrillion. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

NASA and SpaceX investigating Crew Dragon Explosion before launching humans to ISS. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

While headlines routinely report on "close shaves" and "near-misses" when near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids or comets pass relatively close to Earth, the real work of preparing for the possibility of a NEO impact with Earth goes on mostly out of the public eye. For more than 20 years, NASA and its international partners have been scanning the skies for NEOs, which are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun and come within 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit. International groups, such as NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), the European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness-NEO Segment and the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) have made better communication of the hazards posed by NEOs a top priority. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

NASA’s InSight lander set down the French SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars. On 6 April, on the 128th Martian day or ‘sol’ of the mission, a quiet but distinct seismic signal was detected similar to quakes detected on the surface of the Moon by the Apollo missions.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

NASA's next Mars mission is slowly coming together in a "clean room" in California. Technicians at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembled the capsule that will keep the Mars 2020 rover secure for its wild ride to the Red Planet's surface. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

 China unveiled a colossal Mars survival simulation base camp on Wednesday in the Gobi desert of Jinchang, Northwest China's Gansu Province. According to a project employee, the simulation camp will become an astronaut training facility in the future.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support