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We have a little bit of everything. Hear the voices of the astronomy community on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, or catch up on the news with our Daily Space episodes. Also catch launches, landings, and other special events as they happen with us on Twitch.
Other Future Events
- July 16-18, 2021
CosmoQuest-a-Con
A celebration at the Intersection of Space and Creativity - October 23-24
Hangout-a-thon
(Tentative)
Podcasts & Streams
November 27: Life as We Know It
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Citizen Science
CosmoQuest invites you to help NASA scientists make maps of scientifically interesting features in our Solar System. You can map craters on the Moon, and trace the splatter of asteroid impacts on Vesta. All these worlds are yours to explore!
Currently we’re rebuilding all our citizen science projects with a new interface. We’ll get you sciencing again as soon as we can.
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Blog
Random Space Fact: Gamma Cassiopeiae Named by Gus Grissom
Your random space fact of the week comes community member UncWilly who told us about a visible star in Cassiopeia that had no traditional Arabic or Latin name until the mid-twentieth century.
This Week in Rocket History: Friendship 7
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn was launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the Friendship 7Mercury capsule, sitting on top of an Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle.
Cygnus NG-15 Resupply Mission Lifts Off From Wallops
The Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft was launched on February 20 at 17:36 UTC aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia.
Another 60 Starlink Satellites in Orbit, Booster Lost
On February 16 at 03:59 UTC, SpaceX’s Booster 1059 made its sixth flight from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with another sixty Starlink satellites onboard.
Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-16 Resupply Mission to ISS
Progress MS-16 is an ISS resupply mission that launched on February 15 at 04:45 UTC from Site 31-6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
NASA’s TESS Finds Planetary System in Young Stellar Stream
A trio of exoplanets larger than Earth were found in orbit around a relatively young star in a recently discovered stellar stream.
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Touches Down on Mars
At approximately 2055 UTC on February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars to much fanfare and excitement.
Astronomy and Planetary News: Weekend Update Style
Due to the weeklong hiatus, Pamela and Beth did a Weekend Update style rundown of several astronomy and planetary science stories.
Water Ice Resources Identified in Martian Northern Hemisphere
New maps of Mars’ northern hemisphere, created using several remote sensing techniques, show broad regions of subsurface water ice.