Weekly Space Hangout Archive

A joint production with Astrosphere New Media Association & Universe Today, the Weekly Space Hangout brings together the news writers to talk about the news makers.

Want to watch live? Click over to our Hangouts page. Episodes are recorded every Friday at 12 Pacific. Find your Time Zone here.

Episode for January 18, 2013

This week we talk about:

• Plans for an inflatable space station
• Return of the Orion Mission
• Craters on Titan
• Supercomputer bolted to telescope
• High school teacher's work in astronomy
• Ancient riverbed on Mars
• Update on recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society

We are joined by Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Amy Shira Teitel, and Scot Lewis. Produced by Nicole Gugliucci. Hosted by Fraser Cain.

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Episode for October 4, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Ancient stream bed on Mars
• 55th anniversary of Sputnik launch
• Square Kilometer Array in Australia
• Strange cold layer on Venus
• Most precise measurement of the universe's expansion

We are joined by Nancy Atkinson, Amy Shira Teitel, and Nicole Gugliucci.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

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Episode for September 27, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Possibility that comet ISON will be the brightest ever
• New picture of Phobos returned by Curiosity Rover
• Anticipated date for record skydive
• Hubble extreme deep field survey
• First test of Grasshopper by SpaceX
• Plans for a base beyond the Moon
• Paddleboat mission to Titan plan

We are joined by Jason Major, Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Michael Wall, and Ian O'Neill.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

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Episode for September 21, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Warp Drive research at NASA
• Neil Armstrong burial at sea
• Phobos eclipse
• Oldest-youngest galaxy
• Pyramid shaped rock on Mars

We are joined by Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci, Amy Shira Teitel, Nancy Atkinson, and Ian O'Neill.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

Episode for September 13, 2012

This week we talk about:

• DAWN leaving Vesta
• Impact recorded on Jupiter
• Shuttle Endeavor's move to it's retirement home
• Curiosity rover update

We are joined by Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci, and Pamela Gay.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

Episode for July 12, 2012

This week we talk about:

• New moon discovered orbiting Pluto (P5)
• New Horizons doing science in it's sleep
• Southern polar vortex on Titan
• Pluto moon orbits, et cetera.

We are joined by Robert Nemiroff, Jason Major, Alan Boyle, Michael Wall, Amy Shira Teitel and special guest Mark Showalter of SETI.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

Episode for July 5, 2012

This week we talk about:

• The (A) Higgs Boson discovery
• Speedy speedy pulsar
• The case of the disappearing dust cloud
• Tragic death of Shuttle Astronaut Alan G. Poindexter

We're joined by Alan Boyle, Nancy Atkinson, Jason Major, and Nicole Gugliucci.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for June 28, 2012

This week we talk about:

• A terrifying gas cloud that is headed to the center of the galaxy
• More news on exoplanets
• Sniffing for life on Mars
• What it's going to be like to land on Mars.

We're joined by Jason Major, Ian O'Neill, and Emily Lakdawalla.

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

Episode for June 21, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Black Holes as particle detectors
• New advances in Chinese space exploration
• Asteroid research
• History of women in space

We're joined by Amy Shira Teitel, Alan Boyle, Ian O'Neill, and Michael Wall.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for June 14, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Lakes on Titan
• Mars Curiosity landing
• Earth-type worlds more common
• NuSTAR Mission launch

We're joined by Amy Shira Teitel, Emily Lakdawalla, and Nicole Gugliucci.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for June 7, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Venus Transit revisited
• Next stages of commercial space exploration
• Shuttle Enterprise's last mission
• Prometheus review (no spoilers)

We're joined by Alan Boyle and Amy Shira Teitel.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for May 31, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Successful SpaceX mission
• Manned missions to Venus
• Nomadic planets
• Square Kilometer Array
• APOD

We're joined by Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci, Amy Shira Teitel, and Jason Major. We also talk with special guest Robert Nemiroff of APOD.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for May 17, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Plans to build a real Enterprise space ship
• Annular solar eclipse
• Possible evidence for the Gaia hypothesis
• Fuel for black holes
• Hubble and the venus transit

We're joined by Nicole Gugliucci, Philip Plait, Amy Shira Teitel, Jason Major, and Nancy Atkinson.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for May 3, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Shuttle Retirement
• Asteroid Mining
• Killer Black Holes
• New Mission to Jupiter
• Problems with Space X
• Brown Dwarfs

We're joined by Alan Boyle, Ian O'Neill, Emily Lakdawalla, Amy Shira Teitel, Sawyer Rosenstein, Jason Major, Fraser Cain, and Nicole Gugliucci.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for April 26, 2012

This week we talk about:

• Various "Dark Matter" aspects
• Asteroid mining
• New information on Vesta
• Moon nostalgia

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for April 19, 2012

This week we talk about:

• The recent gigantic solar flare
• The search for rouge planets
• The big space shuttle switcheroo
• The end of "dark matter"

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for April 12, 2012

This week we talk about

• North Korean space program,
• Neutrino communication,
• Scotch whiskey in space
• Asteroid pictures from ESA's Rosetta mission,
• Lack of planned NASA planetary missions.

Hosted by Pamela Gay

Episode for April 5, 2012

This week we talk about

• Placement of the Square Kilometer Array,
• "Titanic" sky chart,
• Tornados on Mars
• Amundsen Crater as a target for manned exploration,
• What sound would sound like on Mars and Venus.

Hosted by Pamela Gay

Episode for March 29, 2012

This week we talk about

• Mountains on Mercury
• Metal exoplanets,
• Rain on Titan
• Jeff Bezos finding Apollo 11 engines on the ocean floor.

Hosted by Pamela Gay

Episode for March 15, 2012

This week we talk about

• SpaceX,
• deflecting asteroids with nuclear missiles,
• space exploration artifacts on the Moon

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Episode for March 8, 2012

This week we talk about

• two different asteroid close passes,
• the solar storms buffeting the Earth,
• a recent space exploration conference, and
• a team of amateur astronomers flashing the space station.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Emily Lakdawalla, and Phil Plait.

Special Guest: Ryan Kobrick of Yuri's Night!

Episode for March 1, 2012

This week we talk about

• redefinition of the term "Earthlike",
• salty soil on Mars,
• how you can participate in SETI,
• asteroid dust from Hayabusa, and
• the dangers of a warp drive.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Nicole Gugliucci, and Ian O'Neil.

Episode for February 23, 2012

This week we talk about

• the non-discovery of faster-than-light neutrinos,
• the possibility of quakes on Mars,
• an explanation for the ridge on Iapetus,
• the 25th anniversary of SN1987A, and
• a steamy water world.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, and Emily Lakdawalla.

Episode for February 16, 2012

This week we talk about

• NASA's new budget,
• Chang'e Moon maps,
• a Swiss plan to remove space junk, and
• the first human-robot space handshake.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Pamela Gay, Emily Lakdawalla, and Ian O'Neill, with special guest Alan Stern.

Episode for February 9, 2012

This week we talk about

• possible methods of interstellar communications,
• supermassive black holes eating asteroids,
• a stratospheric skydive,
• reaching Lake Vostok, and
• an ancient ocean on Mars

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Emily Lakdawalla, and Ian O'Neill.

Episode for February 2, 2012

This week we talk about

• the search for super earths,
• the non-discovery of life on Venus,
• video from the far side of the Moon,
• nature versus nurture in star formation, and
• the tests of SpaceX's new rocket system.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Emily Lakdawalla, and Ian O'Neill.

Episode for January 26, 2012

This week we talk about

• week of space remembrance,
• solar storms,
• Newt's plans for a 2020 lunar base,
• arsenic and old news, black holes, and
• their galaxies and the death of Phobos-Grunt.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Ian O'Neill, and Phil Plait.

Episode for January 19, 2012

This week we talk about

• Boiling planets,
• Re-Pillars of Creation,
• A galaxy made of dark matter
• The return of Phobos-Grunt
• A telescope the size of a planet.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Emily Lakdawalla, Ian O'Neill, Phil Plait, and Jon Voisey.

Episode for January 12, 2012

This week we discussed:

• The possibility there are more planets than stars,
• New dark matter maps,
• Tricorder X-Price,
• The colour of the Milky Way, and
• The Dawn Mission.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Emily Lakdawalla, Ian O'Neill, Phil Plait, and Jon Voisey.

Episode for January 5, 2012

This was the first weekly space hangout, run as a Hangout on Air in Google+. On the agenda:

• NASA's GRAIL Mission, the return of Phobos-Grunt,
• The Quadrantid meteor shower,
• 2012 nonsense, and
• Teleporting Obama to Mars.

Hosted by Fraser Cain

Featuring: Nancy Atkinson, Alan Boyle, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Ian O'Neill, Phil Plait, and Jon Voisey.