STP89 - Plants Grown In Lunar Soil For The First Time - With Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul.
Breaking news this week - Plants grown in Lunar soil.
Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-lisa-paul-a9509ba5/
University of Florida Space Plants Lab:
https://hos.ifas.ufl.edu/spaceplantslab/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UF_Space_Plants
Emily’s Articles:
Space in the Seventies: Skylab’s Final Moments, Part Two
https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-skylabs-final-moments-part-two/
Space in the Seventies: The Technological Environment of Mid-1979, Around the Time of Skylab’s Reentry:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-the-technological-environment-of-mid-1979-around-the-time-of-skylabs-b10f79486501
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 27 Apr 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Crew-4
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4749
Fri 29 Apr 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2C: SuperView Neo 1-01 & 02:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6941
No Video Available.
Fri 29 Apr 2022: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: VKS RF: Angara 1.2: Cosmos 2555:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5654
No Video Available.
Fri 29 Apr 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-16:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6911
Sat 30 Apr 2022: Yellow Sea, China: CASC: Long March 11H: Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D-04 to 07 & 04A:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6934
No Video Available.
Mon 2 May 2022: Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: There and Back Again:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6925
Thu 5 May 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Jilin-1 Wideband-01C & High Resolution 03D-27 to 33:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6942
No Video Available.
Fri 6 May 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-17:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6922
Mon 9 May 2022: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 7: Tianzhou 4:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4350
This Week’s Other News:
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins to become first Black woman on ISS crew:
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-jessica-watkins-first-black-woman-iss-crew
Apollo 17 moonwalker hails launch of fellow geologist-astronaut Jessica Watkins:
https://www.space.com/apollo-17-moonwalker-hails-astronaut-jessica-watkins-launch
Crew-3 astronauts on SpaceX Dragon Endurance splash down from space station:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew3-endurance-splashdown
Russian cosmonaut assumes command of space station ahead of SpaceX's Crew-3 departure:
https://www.space.com/iss-change-of-command-spacex-crew3-departure
European Robotic Arm moves for first time during 250th spacewalk at space station:
https://www.space.com/cosmonauts-spacewalk-european-robotic-arm
Ingenuity Mars helicopter snaps amazing photos of Perseverance rover's landing gear:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-perseverance-parachute-backshell-photos
Image credit: NASA/JPL.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity recovering from communications blackout spawned by dust:
https://www.space.com/mars-ingenuity-helicopter-blackout-dust
NASA will try again to fuel Artemis 1 moon rocket in June as launch slips to August:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis1-moon-rocket-fueling-june
FAA delays environmental review of SpaceX's Starship yet another month, to May 31:
https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-may-31
Boeing's Starliner capsule stacked atop Atlas V rocket ahead of crucial May 19 launch:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-stacked-atlas-v-rocket-photos
James Webb Space Telescope enters 'homestretch' of commissioning with stunning image:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-commissioning-update-may-2022
Epic catch! Rocket Lab snags falling booster with helicopter after 34-satellite launch:
https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-helicopter-booster-catch-satellite-launch
Blue Origin announces crew for next suborbital space tourism launch:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-crew-ns21-suborbital-space-mission
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti makes history with 1st TikTok from International Space Station:
https://www.space.com/astronaut-makes-first-tiktok-space-station
Signs of Life at Griffith Observatory:
Image Credits: The University of Florida.
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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 hosted by the National Space Society.
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 20,000 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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