Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest :Dr. Bram Venemans, Dr. Kimberly Cartier, & Dr. Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Weekly Space Hangout – Paul Hildebrandt’s “First to the Moon”
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/cwoJl7eMeT4
Description:This week’s stories:
- The most detailed radio map of the galaxy.
- The GOLD satellite.
- Is Europa too soft to land on?
- Nobody is going to win the GLXP, the lunar X prize.
Special Guest: Andrzej Stewart currently works in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. However, from 2015-2016, Andrzej acted as the Chief Engineering Officer during the year-long Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (Hi-SEAS) IV Mars simulation mission on Mauna Loa. Prior to that he participated in NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) simulation where he acted as the flight engineer.
Aside from his mission-simulation participation, Andrzej has extensive design and engineering experience within the space program having worked on projects such as Spitzer, NASA’s Deep Space Network, and the Orion spacecraft.
You can read about Andrzej’s time “on Mars” and learn more about him by visiting his blog, Surfing with the Aliens, here: https://hiseasandrzej.wordpress.com
Guests:
Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )
Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
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