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Podcaster:  Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Joe Pappalardo, Chris Prophet, and Dr. Morgan Rehnberg

Title: Weekly Space Hangout – The 21st Century Space Industry

Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/cwoJl7eMeT4

Description:This week’s stories:

  •  NASA’s new (proposed) budget…
  • The LISA Pathfinder
  • The VLT ESPRESSO spectrograph

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )

Special Guest: Joe Pappalardo ( @PappalardoJoe ) is the author of the new popular science and technology book, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight (The Overlook Press; Available Now). In it, Pappalardo “tackles the ever-changing, 21st-century space industry and what privately funded projects like Elon Musk’s SpaceX mean for the future of space travel.” (Foreign Policy)

Learn more about Spaceport Earth, including where to buy it, here:

http://www.overlookpress.com/categories/spaceport-earth-the-reinvention-of-spaceflight.html

We’ll also have a prerecorded interview with Chris Prophet. The author of SpaceX From the Ground Up, joins us again to discuss with Fraser last week’s Falcon Heavy success.

Guests:
Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )

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