STP109 - Bringing Home Rocks From Mars - with Dr. Amy Williams.
This week we speak to Dr. Amy Williams from the University of Florida. Dr. Williams has been involved with planning the mission to collect and return rocks from Mars with the Perseverance rover.
NASA's Sample Return Mission:
https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/
Dr. Amy Williams:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-williams-436a93143/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lotelab_uf
Mars rover team, with UF scientist, collects Martian rocks for return to Earth:
https://news.ufl.edu/2022/08/mars-rover-rocks/
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 21st Sept 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Yunhai-1 03:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7020
No Video Available
Wed 21st Sept 2022: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1a: Soyuz MS-22:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2974
Sat 24th Sept 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California: ULA: Delta IV Heavy: NROL-91:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/143
Sat 24th Sept 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASIC: Kuaizhou 1A: Shiyann 14 & Shiyan 15:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7022
No Video Available
Sun 25th Sept 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-35:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7004
Mon 26th Sept 2022: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Yaogan 36:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7021
No Video Available
Tue 27th Sept 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 6: Shiyan 16 A/B & Shiyan 17:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7023
No Video Available
This Week’s Other News:
Russia launches NASA astronaut to space station under new 'crew swap' agreement:
https://www.space.com/soyuz-ms22-international-space-station-crew-swap-launch
Powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket launches US spy satellite on final flight from California:
https://www.space.com/delta-iv-heavy-nrol-91-launch-success
After DART's incredible asteroid impact, the science is only beginning:
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-what-happens-next
Behold the 1st images of DART's wild asteroid crash:
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-crash-first-photos-liciacube
Astronomers stunned as binary asteroid Didymos-Dimorphos brightens after DART space rock impact:
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-didymos-brighten-observations
NASA rolls Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad to shelter from Hurricane Ian:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-rocket-rollback-hurricane-ian
As Hurricane Ian closes in, NASA weighs options for Artemis 1 moon rocket launch:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-hurricane-ian-launch-options
Small fire breaks out at Artemis 1 moon rocket's hurricane shelter:
https://www.space.com/fire-kennedy-space-center-vab-artemis-1
Hurricane Ian delays SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut launch to Oct. 4:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-5-launch-delay-hurricane-ian
European woman takes command of International Space Station for 1st time:
https://www.space.com/cristoforetti-first-european-woman-command-space-station
Who wants to go to the moon? Europe names astronaut candidates:
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-moon-europe-astronaut-candidates.html
Ingenuity Mars helicopter soars on 32nd flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-flight-32
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Emily Carney
A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
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Dave Giles
Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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