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“Therefore see that you walk carefully [living life with honor, purpose, and courage; shunning those who tolerate and enable evil], not as the unwise, but as wise [sensible, intelligent, discerning people], making the very most of your time [on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence], because the days are [filled with] evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16 AMP   *Transcription Below*   Questions and Topics We Discuss: How did God meet you in your experience of army life to reveal your choice of hope vs. fear? What have you learned about community, both before and after your experience of launching your husband into space? For all of us, how can we rediscover our fun side when we've been trapped in survival mode for too long?   Stacey Morgan is always ready with a funny or thoughtful story from her own life; whether it be holding down the home front during military deployments, working for the Smithsonian, skydiving, or blasting  her husband into outer space. Stacey is on staff with MOPS International, a nonprofit focused on the unique needs of mothers around the world. She and her husband, Army colonel and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan, have four children.   Connect with Stacey on Instagram or through her website.   Other Savvy Sauce Episodes Related to Friendship: Friendship with Drew Hunter Reflecting Jesus in Our Relationships with Rach Kincaid Nurturing Friendships with Jackie Coleman Art of Friendship with Kim Wier   Thank You to Our Sponsors: Chick-fil-A East Peoria and The Savvy Sauce Charities (and donate online here)   Please help us out by sharing this episode with a friend, leaving a 5-star rating and review, and subscribing to this podcast!   Connect with The Savvy Sauce on Facebook, Instagram or Our Website   Gospel Scripture: (all NIV)   Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”   Romans 3:24 “and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”   Romans 3:25 (a) “God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.”   Hebrews 9:22 (b) “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”   Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”   Romans 5:11 “Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”   John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”   Romans 10:9 “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”   Luke 15:10 says “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”   Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”   Ephesians 1:13–14 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession- to the praise of his glory.”   Ephesians 1:15–23 “For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”   Ephesians 2:8–10 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God‘s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.“   Ephesians 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.“   Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”   *Transcription*   Music: (0:00 – 0:09)   Laura Dugger: (0:09 - 2:54) Welcome to The Savvy Sauce, where we have practical chats for intentional living. I'm your host, Laura Dugger, and I'm so glad you're here. I want to say a huge thank you to today's sponsors for this episode, Chick-fil-A East Peoria and Savvy Sauce Charities.   Are you interested in a free college education for you or someone you know? Stay tuned for details coming later in this episode from today's sponsor, Chick-fil-A East Peoria. You can also visit their website today at https://www.chick-fil-a.com/locations/il/east-peoria.   I'm so excited to share a special Patreon re-release episode. And if you've been with The Savvy Sauce for a while, you know that we used to make some money by having people sign up for Patreon and as a reward, they would get access to special episodes. Now we have done away with that as we've transitioned to becoming a nonprofit, and we want to make all of these episodes available to you, so we re-release a few every year.   What I'd love to ask is, as we're approaching the end of year because we've taken out that revenue stream, would you consider financially supporting Savvy Sauce Charities?   There are two simple ways. First, if you want to mail us a check, that saves us all of the processing fees, and you can make that out to Savvy Sauce Charities and mail it to P.O. Box 101, Roanoke, Illinois 61561. Also, if you want to go online, visit thesavvysauce.com and you can type in different words to the search button. You could type in “donate” or “support” and it should take you to the place where there's a button to click and put in your credit card information and give that way. We would be so grateful for any amount, and we love our partnership with you.   Here's our chat.   Stacey Morgan is my guest today, and you may have heard her name in the news over the past few years. She has documented her story in her debut book, The Astronaut's Wife: How Launching My Husband into Outer Space Changed the Way I Live on Earth. And now she's going to share more about that season and all the lessons God taught her about making the most of her one incredible life, and she's going to inspire each of us to do the same.   Here's our chat. Welcome to The Savvy Sauce, Stacey.   Stacey Morgan: (2:55 - 2:58) I am so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.   Laura Dugger: (2:58 - 3:07) Well, it is truly my pleasure. And will you just start by giving us a little bit more context for our time together and just share a few things about yourself?   Stacey Morgan: (3:08 - 4:49) Sure. Well, hi, my name is Stacey. I currently live in Texas.   I have four kids. I'm married to a guy named Drew who has kind of an unusual job. I grew up in a small town just outside of Boston and was kind of a scholar-athlete growing up interested in a lot of different things but always involved in church and youth group. And that really served me well when I went off to college.   The first college I went to, West Point. And actually, I'll tell you in a minute, but that is where I eventually met my now husband, Drew.   We got married after I graduated from undergrad. He's a little bit older than me and he is an Army officer. And so, we have moved all over the country. We've lived on both coasts and had a number of kinds of unusual situations just, you know, kind of typical for a military family living all over the place.   I've had a lot of crazy jobs. I think mainly I have an unusual story because I'm really quick to say yes to things, which sometimes, you know, it's a double-edged sword. Sometimes you say yes and you realize, “I should have thought through that a little bit more.” But really it's been quite an adventure because we have had the opportunity to live in a lot of different places, experience a lot of different things.   And we ended up here in 2013. We can kind of get into that if you want, but we ended up down here in Texas with my husband, who is still an Army officer, but he became a NASA astronaut. And so, that totally changed the direction of our lives and kind of changing all the plans we had for what we were supposed to be doing in the military and ending up down here at Johnson Space Center. Then, him eventually launching into outer space.   Laura Dugger: (4:49 - 5:01) Wow, there are so many points to unpack, but let's back it up to what you had mentioned about West Point. So, will you just elaborate and tell us more about how you and Drew met and fell in love?   Stacey Morgan: (5:01 - 7:21) Sure. So, we were both cadets at West Point when we met. He was a little bit older than me, but we met through Officers' Christian Fellowship, which is a Christian club that is very popular on military bases, both at the academies but in big Army and other services as well when you get out.   It's a, you know, it's like small groups, typical for what most people would find comfortable in kind of church community. And so, we met there and we just kind of clicked, you know.   I would say it's funny looking back, we were not the type of people I think we would have thought we would marry. He was far more serious than I am. I'm a little bit more, I'm the one to more kind of like walk the fine line, but we work together really well.   We've always been a great team. That's always been a real theme in our marriage, you know, that we are a team. And, you know, when he proposed after I graduated from undergrad, he kind of said, “I promise you a life of adventure,” which at the time sounded wonderful and adorable.   Of course, it has come back to haunt me several times when he has been, you know, come up with some crazy plan and when I hesitate he's like, “I promised you adventure.” And I'm like, “Now that's unfair. I did not know when you said adventure back in 2000 that you meant all these crazy things like going to space or all these different deployments and all this kind of stuff like that.”   So, we now have four kids. We've been married this summer will be 22 years. And, you know, it hasn't been without its challenges like any marriage and certainly any marriage under stress because of stressful situations, whether that's military deployments, whether that's space travel or just kind of life and parenting. And as you kind of grow up together and get to know each other and the world changes around you, we've certainly had ups and downs, but we are a team.   And I think God has really honored that and it's been really helpful for us when we've had those sticky seasons where you just feel like, “Man, we are just not connecting or kind of jiving the way we would want,” to actually say to each other that we are on the same team and that has been really helpful.   Laura Dugger: (7:22 - 7:40) The part of your story that involves space travel is one that most of us will never be able to relate to experientially, but it's still extraordinary. So, can you walk us through the detailed events leading up to 9:28 p.m. on July 20th, 2019?   Stacey Morgan: (7:42 - 15:28) Sure. So, I should back it up one big step behind that just to give everybody a little context. So, in 2012, we were kind of living our lives. We had always been deep into the Army Special Operations community. We love that. In order to live and kind of thrive in that environment you have to be all in, and we were all in.   And one day my husband came home and he was uncharacteristically giddy and he said, “You're not gonna believe this huge news. NASA is opening up the application window for a new class of astronauts.”   And I thought, “Why are you telling me this? This has no bearing whatsoever on our lives. We are on this path and that is a completely different path.”   And he said, “Well, I want to apply.”   And I thought to myself, “Well, I wanted to be a ballerina at one point in life, but that ship sailed. Like who doesn't say they always wanted to be an astronaut? Like this seems like a childhood fantasy.”   But he said, “No, I just want to apply. Like don't worry, all of our plans are gonna stay the same. They've never selected an Army physician before. I just, you know, I want to...” You know, the joke was that you'll always be a NASA applicant, right? And that'll be great. We'll laugh about it at family Christmases and stuff.   Except he kept making it through every gate. And so, in 2013 we got the call that completely took our life off of one set of train tracks and put it on another. At that time, we were currently stationed just outside of Washington DC at Fort Belvoir. We were supposed to be literally the next week moving to Germany. And that's how close these changes kind of came up on themselves. And so, we had to unravel everything for Germany and move to Houston, Texas, because that's where Johnson Space Center is.   And so, he began his training in 2013. I started my journey in learning a whole new culture, a whole new way of doing life. I'd never lived in a place that was at least not near a military base or within a military community. Didn't quite recognize at the time how much that shared sense of community had made things easier in terms of connecting with people before that and when I didn't have it.   So, it was probably our rockiest transition for me personally that I'd ever had in terms of friendships and getting connected. That's a big part of my story because I think friendship struggles are so common for adult women. It's just something that nobody really teaches us how to do and so a lot of women are very lonely.   But fast forward, he trained for several years until it was eventually his turn to fly. And in 2019, the only way to get to the International Space Station was to fly on a Russian Soyuz rocket. So, some people are very confused because they think, “Well, every space movie I've ever watched is taking place in Florida, right? Whether that's Apollo 13 or Armageddon or whatever. Why didn't he launch from Florida?”   Well, between 2011 and 2020, the Space Shuttle program had ended. SpaceX Crew Dragon had not yet started launching from Florida again. So, for about a 10-year period, the only way to get to and from the International Space Station was to ride a Russian rocket.   So, that's what NASA did. They went into partnership with the Russians, which of course makes things very interesting given today's kind of current political climate and all the world events. But that meant when it was Drew's turn to launch, we as a family had to travel to Kazakhstan, which is a country that I could not spell before 2019.   And so, if you don't know where that is, don't feel bad. I didn't either. I had to look it up. It's a former Soviet Republic really kind of in between Russia and Afghanistan. So, it is in the middle of nowhere. And when the Soviets were building their space program in the 1950s and 60s, they built their secret space city there in Kazakhstan. That's where they started their space program and they have kind of kept it unchanged and they continue to launch their rockets from there today.   It was a whole kind of world travel and cultural experience to take my four kids to Kazakhstan, which is a completely different cultural experience for really what came down to a very stressful, very emotional moment really waiting for that launch. So, unlike Florida, which you know when you watch on television, it's colorful, there's a lot of people, a lot of spectators, big people remember from the shuttle days big countdown clock, a loudspeaker kind of telling everybody what's going on... that's not how it is in Kazakhstan.   So, about 30 minutes before the launch, the kids and I were brought to this viewing area. And by viewing area I would say big field. It's not... there was kind of some grandstands area far at the other end of the field, but that's where all the space tourists stand and the press and all that kind of stuff and we didn't want to be near them. So, our escort brought us down to the end, the other end of the field, and it's just dark and it's quiet and there's no announcements. There's no countdown clock. It's just looking at your watch or your phone there just kind of in the dark and you just know that that Russian ground crew is going to launch that rocket at exactly 9:28 p.m. Not a minute earlier, not a minute later.   And so, standing there in the dark holding my kids' hands, and we can see the rocket in the distance only about a mile away, which by rocket launch standards is very close. Knowing that in a minute or 30 seconds or 10 seconds as it gets closer, it's either going to be one of the best days of your life, super exciting, super proud moment, or it's going to be the worst day of your life, and you could become a widow.   And as much as it's easy to kind of get complacent because incidents are so rare, but we all can remember any number of space disasters that have happened. Columbia, Challenger, those are very real. And with my time down here at Johnson Space Center, you come to learn those names and you meet those families and you meet those widows and widowers and you realize that space travel is dangerous. You know, at the end of the day my husband was in a little tiny capsule on top of a rocket full of highly explosive fuel. So, it's very scary.   And in that moment standing there thinking, “In 10 seconds my life is going to change no matter what happens.” Even if this goes perfectly, what happens next? I don't really know. It's kind of like having a baby. You can read all about it and assume things will be the way they're going to be, but until you're in it and then it happens, you don't really know how it's gonna go.   And so, it was a really overwhelmingly emotional moment because you think this could go sideways. And also, by the way, the world is watching live with me. So, if something goes wrong, I'm not able to process this privately. I will be experiencing it in real time with the rest of the world.   But even if it goes perfectly, what happens next? Like what does it look like to live on earth with a spouse in space and single parent for nine plus months while their other parent is in space? And you really don't know and it's scary to think like, “Gosh, what if something happens?” You know, he can't like come home early. Can't just like a business trip jump on a plane or a train and get home early. There's no coming back early. So, whatever happens, I'm on my own for better or worse. I'm on my own and I hope I have the endurance and the support system and everything I'm gonna need in order to be successful in this nine months.   Laura Dugger: (15:28 - 15:47) And my heart is pounding a little bit faster just as I hear you describe this. And I'd love to get back to your story, but first just to pause and wonder with that mixture of this adventure right in front of you and then your experience of army life, how did God meet you in all of that to reveal your choice of you're able to choose hope or fear?   Stacey Morgan: (15:47 - 22:32) Right. So, you know, when you take the time to step back and think, sometimes you don't see these patterns in your life until you kind of start putting them down on paper. And it was interesting for me to see how God had prepared me for that moment with other moments, especially related to military deployments in the past. Because certainly experiencing a rocket launch and all that fear and kind of this moment of where is my hope found in this moment, that was a varsity level moment.   But I'm so thankful that about ten years earlier God really started to prepare me for that moment with some other big moments. Like when my husband deployed for the first time.   I'll never forget, it was the height of the War on Terror. So, we were living in a military community which was amazing and a lot of my friends' husbands were also serving in the same military units or similar military units and they were deploying. The tempo was high so that meant, you know, six months deployed or longer, coming home for short amounts of time and then deploying again. Lots of action specifically in Afghanistan and Iraq at the time.   And so, lots of fatalities, lots of injuries, lots of grief, and for spouses a lot of fear because we knew what they were doing was very dangerous. And so, for me and my friends we kind of had this unspoken rule which I think a lot of people can understand which was, “Let's just not talk about this scariest thing because somehow talking about it makes it seem more possible.”   And as crazy as that is to say, people get that. You know, there's a lot of things we don't talk about because it's just too scary to think about. And so, for us the scariest thing in our life at that time was the fear that our husbands would not come home, that they would be killed in action. And that felt very real because we were going to memorial services, we were visiting people in the hospital, we were turning on the news and seeing what was going on in the world. And there was often communication blackouts because we knew that they were doing things that were very dangerous, very secretive.   And so, at the time I happily did what everybody else was doing which was, “Let's just not talk about it. Let's just kind of live life managing.” We felt like we were managing this fear, I think that's what I would have said at the time.   But then one day my friend Lisa, who's an amazing friend and she's always like two steps ahead of me on the wisdom scale, we were having coffee on her front porch and she turned to me and she said, “I've been thinking a lot about what life would be like if our husbands were killed.”   And this was like a bomb drop. I mean because we just were not supposed to be talking about this. Like here the rest of us had been avoiding all morbid thoughts about what could possibly happen with our husband and instead she had like turned and looked it straight in the eye.   And I was shocked. And so, I kind of sat up straighter and I said, “What do you mean?”   And she said, “Well, I've been thinking about it and it's not that, you know, life would certainly be hard and doesn't mean we wouldn't need counseling or our kids wouldn't need support, but life would still go on even if that happened. Life would still go on. Life would still be full of good things and God would provide and bring people around us to support us and I've just been thinking about that.”   And I was stunned. I was absolutely stunned because while the rest of us were too afraid to face that fear, in looking at it she kind of exposed it for what it was, which was certainly real and an absolute possibility that that could happen. But when she started walking down the path of like, “Okay, if this happened then what would happen?” You have to decide, “Do I believe God would really be with me or not? Do I believe His promises are true that He will be with me on good days and bad days and that He will draw people to me who will love me and support me? And have I plugged myself into friends and a faith community that would be there for me if that happened?”   And it was a game changer. That was probably one of, at the time, the biggest life-changing conversations I'd ever had as an adult because it really did shift how I viewed feeling afraid about things like that. And so, I had several opportunities... Drew deployed several times and then certainly doesn't take combat deployments to feel afraid like that. I know I have felt it before when my daughter was in the NICU, you know, and I had to leave her in the NICU and go home at night. I know I have felt it during this pandemic several times. I know I'm gonna feel it when I drop my oldest off at college this summer. You know, this moment where it just life feels very scary mainly because of the unknowns that come next and the fact that you have no control over those.   And so, that rocket launch moment was, you know, I felt like God was really prompting me in that moment to say, “Hey, if this rocket explodes like what will you do with that? Do you still trust me that I'm here with you and that I will still bring people to you and love you? Like is your support, is your foundation and your hope truly found in me or is it found in this rocket launch going successfully? Because it might not, and then what does that mean for you?”   And so, it really was this choice of am I gonna choose to live a life of fear, which is our default because if you do not choose something else we will always live a life dictated by fear of something. It's exhausting to live like that because once you conquer one fear another one's gonna pop up. Then they come in bunches and they just start layering on top of each other. Honestly it can lead to despair because there's plenty of things in the world to be afraid of and new ones just pop up every day.   So instead, I felt like God was offering me a new way of living and it really felt tangible in that moment of that rocket launch which is, “Hey, I hope that you will choose to find your hope in me. Just me. The one unchanging thing in this world that will be unchanging regardless of what happens with this rocket launch in 10 seconds. But if it goes well or if it goes poorly I am unchanging. You can rely on me. I will be with you in the best and the worst of times. And even if the rocket launch goes successfully and whatever happens in the next nine months, I'm with you there as well. So, you don't need to be afraid because I'm here with you. You can have hope that I will enable you to do what must be done no matter what happens tomorrow.”   Laura Dugger: (22:32 - 22:49) I'm so grateful that you chose hope and you chose faith. And then after all of that excitement and that adrenaline experienced on launch day, what did your life look like in the months to follow?   Stacey Morgan: (22:49 - 26:47) Yeah, it wasn't easy. You know I joke that those nine months really were like it was like a master class in all these little lessons I've learned throughout the years, but I'd never had to put them into practice at this level and all at the same time.   So, things like being honest about that I needed help. That, you know, there are times in the past where I have certainly wanted people to know or think that I had it all together and that I could do it all by myself especially, you know, I think every mom feels that way.   Certainly, military spouses, we take a lot of pride and feel like I'm doing this on my own.   And I realize now that I had certain seasons I have made life a lot harder for myself because I somehow thought that there was like an extra trophy if I finish the race by myself. I said that it was like, spoiler, there's no trophy. And also, I was just making it harder for myself.   And so, this season I could not fake it. Like past seasons I could fake it. This one I could not fake it. I had two teenagers, two tweens, a lot of hormones and then prepubescent and puberty things flying around. Just a lot of scheduling, a lot of driving, like just life. And then just the stress of living with someone who, you know, a spouse who was living in space and the stress of what does that do to your marriage, to parenting and, you know, parent-child relationships. Just every single piece of running a house, of parenting all the things, was solely on my shoulders and that's a big weight. And it was tough. It was tough.   So, I could not fake it. I had to ask for help. I had to be willing to ask for it and receive it, which are two different skill sets I found. It's sometimes you get good at one and not the other. I had to get really willing to be vulnerable as my friends and say things like, “I'm really lonely.” Can you know, it's like being honest. Like everything's not just, “Oh, this is so exciting. Oh, isn't it so great? Aren't we just so proud of them?” Yes, but at the same time sometimes I'm lonely. Sometimes I'm struggling.   Sometimes in my stress I would overly focus on trying to control my home life or what was happening within my own house and become not as pleasant of a person to live with because I was just trying to kind of regain some control in what felt like a little bit of a chaotic world and then you become not your best self and you know that. And so, I had to learn how to kind of get out of that survival mode and still have fun even when life is hard. And really just kind of accept that life isn't one thing or the other. You can be in a hard season and it still have good things in it. Life can be full of opportunities and challenges and one does not negate the other. And when you try to live your life by one narrative or the other, not only are you faking it but you make life harder than it needs to be and you kind of block other people out of it.   So, there was a lot of learning going on in there but we really all came down to that first decision of how am I gonna live my life in this season? Am I gonna live it fearfully, reactionary, hair trigger, you know, just stress all the time because I'm afraid of what comes next. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to handle it? Or am I gonna live a life of hope, which is of course like not wishes and dreams but it is anticipation that God will be with me no matter what comes down the pipeline. And sometimes that's divine comfort that is hard to explain but you just feel it. Sometimes it's people he draws to your life who literally will sit on the couch with you and just like hold your hand or give you a hug that moment you need it. Sometimes it's someone offering to carpool or take your kid out driving because they're trying to get their driver's license, you know?   But that's really the biggest thing for me. I talked about it in chapter one of the book because that's the foundation that really all those other lessons were built on.   Laura Dugger: (26:47 - 27:26) And I think also with your book, it was helpful to hear little insights into what it looked like for your marriage. And it was even interesting when you said it's really important for astronauts to have forms of entertainment and that you were so committed to being involved in Drew's life and that you two still found ways to stay connected. I just think that has to be encouraging to any married couples listening right now because you clearly had a big barrier to overcome. But what were some of those ways that the two of you tried as best as you could in that season to stay intimately connected to one another's lives?   Stacey Morgan: (27:26 - 31:19) Yeah, it's not easy. And I think there's kind of this fallacy that is kind of dangerous for especially young married I think to believe which is like in every season of your life you're gonna feel amazingly connected to your spouse and you're gonna constantly be growing in your relationship. And sometimes that's not true. Like sometimes one person has a job that takes them away from home or someone is sick or there are other issues going on in your life where the connection is just not as strong not because you don't want it to be but because the circumstances you find yourself in don't allow for that.   And certainly, while my husband was in space that was a lot of challenges to feeling connected. I mean there's good communication but there's a difference between like quality and quantity, right? So, he could call me on the phone every day but because of the time differences and his schedule the only time he could call me was between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. my time, which as any person knows and with any kids, is like the worst time of the day. Like everything's happening, the wheels are coming off, homework, pickups, dinner prep, like all that kind of stuff was crazy.   So, needless to say, I was not able to sit down and have like a heartfelt drawn-out conversation. And then kids hate talking on the phone so he wasn't really talking to them during the day. I'm like, you know, my eight-year-old isn't gonna send him an email. So, you know, there wasn't like a lot of quality or quantity conversation with the kids which of course puts a little stress on your marriage too because you worry about that.   And then we have one video chat a month and you want it to be fun. You want it to kind of be good for the kids as well as him but it's a very, you know, it's one hour to share between five people and so that's not a lot of time. And so, the reality is that for that season there was a lot of, I would say, relationship treading water. And you're, you know, the goal is just not to let things go downhill, which you can easily do in life when you and your spouse are experiencing the same event but from different points of view. And that's what we were doing. You know, we were sharing the mission but from two vastly different points of view.   And so, you do your best. But the difference is I think you have to in order to kind of come out on the other end better, you have to have a kind of a mutual commitment that, “Hey, we're going to... we are eventually going to come back together on this. We can't change the circumstances. I can't make the time difference different. I can't give you more time on the phone. I can't... there's things I just cannot change. But we are committed as a team to doing the best we can right now and when this circumstance changes, in this case when he came home, we're gonna kind of back up again and do some story sharing and reconnect about some things that we just didn't have the opportunity to in the past.”   And so, it's a little bit kind of like two steps forward one step back but eventually you still come out ahead if you are committed to trying to come back together and share those experiences in one way or another. Where you run into kind of danger is if people start experiencing two different things and then they never come back together so the gap just kind of keeps widening and widening. And then you hear when people say like, “Yeah, I woke up and I felt like I was living a different life than the person who was sleeping next to me.”   And so, reminding us to ourselves that we are a team even though we were experiencing the same thing. I didn't know a lot about a lot of the things he was doing. He didn't know a lot of stories about how things were for me. And so, it's okay to tell them later if you don't have the ability to tell them in the moment as long as you both have the goodwill and you prioritize coming back together eventually.   Laura Dugger: (31:19 - 34:26) And now a brief message from our sponsor.   Did you know you can go to college tuition free just by being a team member at Chick-fil-A East Peoria? Yes, you heard that right. Free college education. All Chick-fil-A East Peoria team members in good standing are immediately eligible for a free college education through Point University.   Point University is a fully accredited private Christian college located in West Point, Georgia. This online self-paced program includes 13 associate's degrees, 17 bachelor's degrees, and two master's programs, including an MBA. College courses are fully transferable both in and out of this program. 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We love producing free content that's available to everyone around the world with our monthly newsletters when you sign up for our email list and with our weekly episodes. We pray that this has been a benefit to you. That if any episode has ever impacted you, what we ask is that you will partner with us now and generously and prayerfully give financially before the end of the year. There's multiple ways to do this. Online at thesavvysauce.com, you can donate through Stripe,  PayPal, or Venmo with just a simple click. Or you can send snail mail to us at Savvy Sauce Charities, P.O. Box 101 Roanoke, Illinois, 61561. We hope you choose to support us today and during this season especially.   It sounds like you really leaned into your friendships. So, what would you say you've learned about community both before and after your experience of launching Drew into space?   Stacey Morgan: (34:26 - 38:07) Well, I tell you what, I realized that as an adult often a lot of us don't really know how to do friendship well. And our culture is so, it so values independence that we often convince ourselves that if we tell our friends or our community that we need help or just kind of show our true heart for how important it is to us, that somehow that's gonna be kind of like devalued or we're gonna feel weak. And I realized like, “Man, I wasted a lot of years trying to be tougher than I really am.” And I wish I could go back and change that because in this season, mainly because I had no choice. And so, God really used this opportunity to show me like, “Hey, I'm gonna kind of like force you to open up your heart, be vulnerable with this small group of really trusted friends and like just trust me to see what happens next.”   And I did and it was a game-changer. I mean, I have a lot of deep feelings but I put a little bit of a tough exterior and I forced myself to be super honest and super vulnerable with my friends and say things like, “I'm lonely or I don't even know what I need but I'm just feeling exhausted or angry or this is really frustrating to me or I need help with this and I don't even know where to begin.” And just let those friends step into my life in a really intimate way.   And you know, I think we've all had a friend at some point who has asked for help and we have been so happy to help them and we've never thought less of them for it. But somehow when it comes to our own time we're like, “Oh, I don't want to trouble anybody. Oh, they're gonna think I can't handle it.” Or like, “Well, this is like I made this bed so I better lie in it. You chose to have all these kids, you chose this career, you chose this whatever, like this is your problem.” But we would never say that about another friend. And so, I don't know why we are harder on ourselves than we are on our friends because it's not right. Most of our friends are happy to help us. They love us helping us, being with us, comforting us, supporting us. That's how they show how important you are to them and we need to let them do that.   I've also gotten better about verbalizing the feelings that I had always felt inside but I felt awkward verbalizing. Like, “Thank you for being my friend.” Or like, “Thank you for just spending this time with me,” or, “You are an important person in my life.” Words that we say to our kids, that we often say to our spouses, but sometimes for me at least felt weird saying to friends and I'm really trying to get better about that. That was a great nine months of practice. It doesn't come easy or natural I think to anybody but it's a game changer. Like why not tell your friends how much they mean to you?   So, community is essential. Like don't try to lone wolf this life. I've certainly had some more extreme experiences than probably the average person, but the principles are the same. Get plugged into community and have multiple circles of community. Certainly, your faith community but also you know if you work, if you go to the gym, if you go to school, like your kids' friends, like there's so many circles of community and don't be afraid to just jump right in and get connected. And you've got to do it before you are in crisis. You've got to kind of invest in these friendships so that you know them and can trust these friends so that when those seasons come that are hard you have this small group of people who you can rely on. It will be a complete game changer in your life when you have a small, could be one person, can be two people, trusted people who can journey with you.   Laura Dugger: (38:07 - 38:34) I could not agree more. I really think that friendship is one of the most precious gifts were given in this life. And going back to your marriage we had discussed that time of separation but then there was a whole other season of transition as well. So, what was it like to come back together after being apart for nearly 10 months?   Stacey Morgan: (38:34 - 42:55) Yeah, so it's funny there's always these Hollywood romanticized versions of what reunions must look like whether that's a military deployment reunion or you know when an astronaut comes home. And I think people assume it's some kind of like hot sexy romantic can't keep hands off of you but the reality is far different, right? Because it's... I mean maybe it is, maybe that's how it is for some people. I will just say for us, you know, when you've been living an independent life for however long, whether that was you know a six-month or an eight-month deployment or a nine-month deployment to outer space, you know I was living my own life fully independent for that long where I made all the choices. I didn't have anybody looking over my shoulder or you know there's a little bit of independent freedom there when you're the only one kind of making the big decisions.   And so, when that person comes back into your life, which you want them to come back, you're happy they're home, but there is this awkward transition period. It's definitely an opportunity for some tension because now there's another opinion back in the mix, right?   Like I had to kind of adjust my way of doing life for another person who had a valid opinion, another decision maker. The kids had to adjust to having another parent back in the house. You're kind of getting to know each other so there is a little bit of a sniffing out period where you're like, “Hey, nice to meet you.” Because we all change. You know you could be gone from someone for a month, you know, you're not the same person you were today as you were last year or six months ago or maybe even a month ago. So, anytime someone comes back in your life they're different, you're a little different. You're like my friendships had shifted over those ten months, like my work had shifted, everything in my life had moved on and he had not been there in the house with me to experience that so there was... it was a whole new set of experiences and a new person to get to know again.   Now he came home and what made it a little bit more dramatic was that Drew came home in the startup of the pandemic. He came home in April of 2020 which at the time I think we weren't sure, “Are we going up? Are we coming down?” We know now looking back we realize things were just ramping up; the world was, we were all still very confused about what's the best thing to do can we all the things you know. So, NASA pretty much brought him home and then he came home to our house after just a few days in kind of the quarantine facility there on Johnson Space Center. But then he came back to our house and then it's like he never left because all of the normal stuff that would happen when you come home from space like travel and meetings and all these kind of things were all canceled or postponed.   And so, instead of kind of like getting to know each other slowly it was like zero to sixty. I mean he was home and he didn't go anywhere, none of us could go anywhere. So, we joke that the irony that he was in space with five professional crew mates in a small space and then he came home to live in our small space with five amateur crew mates who are certainly not nearly as gracious or accommodating or helpful as the professional astronaut and cosmonaut crew mates he had. The irony is not lost on us. So, he came home I don't think we've ever spent that amount of time together you know 24/7 in the same house with all four of our kids, no school, nowhere to go because everything's closed. And so yeah we're getting to know each other in this kind of Petri dish of new experiences as the world is also kind of like upside down and everything's unusual.   So, in the end it was okay. I joke like we did a lot of “I was like let me go do this puzzle I just need some alone time” or “I'm going for a walk around the neighborhood please don't text me. I'll be back when I'll be back I just need a few minutes to myself.” I think everybody has had that moment in the during the last two years where you're just like, “I just need a few minutes alone please,” you know in my if you've been trapped in your house with somebody who you're not normally with 24/7.   Laura Dugger: (42:56 - 43:17) Well sure and with your experience, mental health is very important for the family of the astronaut and the astronaut themselves. Wasn't it your psychologist who is saying typically when you come back and enter this time of reentry and reuniting you do little bit by little bit because that tends to be wiser?   Stacey Morgan: (43:17 - 45:22) Yes, that's right. They call it titrating a return. That's a principle they have in the military as well which is they would normally come back from a deployment for at least the first couple weeks back from a long trip away they would go to work every day for several hours because it's you know psychologically difficult for two people who have been living very independent lives to come back together just with like zero transition. The military has learned this over the last 20 years you know that you could go from a combat zone to mowing your lawn in 24 hours. That's stressful especially if you add in you know marriage baggage, kids you know nagging kids or issues like that, financial struggles, that's a kind of what can be a breeding ground for some really difficult situation. So, it's best to let people get to know each other again a little bit at a time.   Like you said the normal return from space was kind of the same thing. It would be come home and then you'd have some physical therapy, you'd have these different meetings and it would be a little bit like going to work for several weeks while they're getting their body and everything back to normal. Then, you kind of could have this kind of extended time at home but it gave both people the ability to kind of like reintroduce themselves to each other in bits and pieces and just kind of ease into it. But we did not have that luxury so we kind of had to create it ourselves. And I am glad again that we had those past experiences to know where the potential minefields were. If you were not prepared you could be very disappointed if you went into it thinking, “Oh, they're gonna come home, it's gonna be like romantic. We're gonna be like together and loving it all the time and just connecting so deeply. It's gonna be amazing.” And then the first time that your spouse is like, “Why are you emptying the dishwasher like that?” It's important to know like, “Yeah, if there is going to be tension it is going to be awkward. That's okay that is part of the normal cycle and it's gonna be okay.” But I'm glad that we had that knowledge beforehand because it could be tough.   Laura Dugger: (45:22 - 46:07) Well and Stacey another reason that I really appreciate you being willing to let us enter your story with you. When we have different careers or we have someone in the military and a civilian who's not involved, there's so much room for assumptions and maybe not always assuming the best. There's opportunity for miscommunication so I'm just wondering about the person who's hearing this and what if they're thinking, “Well that sounds irresponsible or even selfish of Drew to choose this path if he's a husband and father.” So, how would you offer that kind of person another perspective that they might be missing?   Stacey Morgan: (46:07 - 48:20) I mean I would say is when it comes to astronauts for sure, you know, these are not like hot-rodding thrill-seeking people. In fact, I would say I think a lot of people make the assumption that people who do some of these higher like physically higher risky jobs must be like thrill-seeking you know just thrown caution to the wind about everything in their life. Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. I think you would find that we certainly and I would you know I think a lot of people in the same career field are similar and that we are good risk calculators. And that like policemen, like firemen, like military personnel you know it's an act of service to be in this job. These are not just like you know space tourists or billionaires getting on a rocket for fun. These are professionals who have chosen a career field of service and whether that is as a policeman, a fireman, a service to the nation, service to humanity, service to their community and they all play a part in that.   I think most people recognize that that it is you know there's something to be said for the person who chooses a career that has a level of risk because they feel called to it and because thank God for people who will take on risk and are willing to potentially sacrifice themselves for someone else. I mean I think it's kind of a higher calling which is why in general in our culture we honor them and rightfully so. It is risky, it's very risky. They certainly don't do it for the money. I don't think anybody in any kind of government service would say that they're doing it for the money, that's for sure. You know they're doing it because they feel called to something bigger than themselves and to serve their fellow man in some way. That's certainly I know how we feel as a family that his choosing to transition as an Army physician into being still in the Army but serving in this capacity was just the next level up. The way he could serve our community, our country, our nation and all of humanity and he really is its service first. It's the opposite of selfish; it is selfless service really.   Laura Dugger: (48:20 - 48:55) Mm-hmm thank you for that. I just say amen to everything you just said. Really it's service from your entire family that requires a sacrifice from each of you like you said for the greater good. And I think something else that you pointed out so well in your book was that having this value more so of security or not living into this calling that you said this calling was put upon your lives that could actually be idolatry if you're starting to place a higher value on security or anything else other than God and so I think you model that well.   Stacey Morgan: (48:55 - 51:13) Thank you. Yeah I think a lot of people you know sometimes these idols creep up on us we don't realize that we have put something on a pedestal until it gets threatened to be taken away from us and all of a sudden our reaction is over the top because we're you know you realize, “Gosh, I'm finding my security in this thing I'm finding my identity in this thing whether this thing is a job, another person, a political party, a scientific breakthrough whatever it is.” Right? Like and I think a lot of people, I certainly felt it you know in that launch moment like, “Am I finding my identity in being married to this person or him having this job or this launch being successful? Because if I am in about 10 seconds my world may crumble because if that could all be taken away from me.” And in that yeah I think we all kind of have probably had a moment especially in the last two years where for a lot of people something that they have built their life on has been either taken away from them or has it has been threatened to be taken away because of the pandemic a job a person in their life you know a relationship your kids going off to school every day I mean whatever it is that you've built in your life and you have put on this pedestal and you kind of made without even realizing it have started to place more hope in those things remaining unchanged than you have in God. And all of a sudden when those things are threatened you have this over-the-top emotionally fearful response that's kind of an indicator I think to all of us like when we have that is like, “Whoo my fear and my response should tell me that I seem to be very very afraid that this is going to be taken away from me because I am putting too much hope in it. Instead, I should be taking that and putting it back where it belongs. I should reprioritize where I am finding my hope and the only unchanging thing that we can build our foundation on is God. Everything else, every person, everything, every job, every whatever it is can and could possibly be taken away from you and on your deathbed will be.” So, you know you can't help but have a little bit of self-reflection there.   Laura Dugger: (51:13 - 51:23) Well and then for all of us how do you recommend that we all can rediscover our fun side when we've been trapped in survival mode for too long?   Stacey Morgan: (51:23 - 56:05) This is a great question because I think all of us have felt this definitely in the pandemic. You know this part in your life where everything in the world feels very chaotic and so you try to regain some control in your own life by maybe regimenting your kids a little more, cleaning your house a little more, you know, controlling things at work or whatever your environment is. And without really realizing it you become this just like survival mode like your day just becomes about making things easier for yourself, streamlining things, making things just go go go. And you wake up one day and you were like, “I'm exhausted. Like why am I so tired? Why am I why do I have like no joy? Why do I just feel unhappy?” And you realize that you have not done anything other than just be like surviving and cleaning and doing work or whatever it is like you have just been doing the basics with no fun whatsoever.   So I have been there I hit that a bunch of times in the pandemic, but I certainly hit it when Drew was in space because it's really hard being a single parent and managing all of the emotional burdens and the logistics of it. And I realized that I was cleaning a lot I was kind of getting a little bit more trigger angry with kids or people who you know were making me upset because when you're in survival mode it's all about just like “Get out of my way let me do what I want to do,” it's about getting things done quickly and other people become an annoyance instead of a joy in your life.   So it's all about going back to something that that fills you up and it can be something really frivolous it can be something like it's very it's 100% unique to you and so I can't tell you what that thing is but I would say the first step in kind of getting yourself out of survival mode and kind of getting back to your your whole self is asking yourself the question like, “What do I enjoy?” Not for its educational value, not for its good cardio exercise or and not what your kids enjoy, not what is Instagram worthy, or anything like in your soul what fills you up? Is it reading? Is it watching movies? Is it riding bikes? Is it roller skating? Is it you know eating Mexican food? Like what is it that you enjoy doing that when you do it you just feel like more of yourself?   And then just go do it tomorrow. Like it's gonna take prioritizing time probably some money but that is as much of a part of who you are how God created you. He didn't make you this like worker bot or like just a mom or just a wife or just a daughter or a sister like He made you a whole person and a huge part of who you are are these things that you enjoy. And you cannot continue to pour into other people or work or your community if you are never getting filled up yourself. You will just dry out, you will be burnt out, you'll be unhappy and you'll actually be worse in all these other areas where you were trying to work hard because you're just gonna be like a shell of yourself.   So, for me it was prioritizing time with friends. It was... I got this crazy flyer on my front door for roller skating lessons and I had this fantasy of being a really good roller skater that stemmed from like when I was eight and so I signed my girls and I up for roller skating lessons which was hilarious and very humbling but it was just silly. It took time, we had to prioritize the time on every Saturday it took money, but it was just fun. It had no educational value my kids will look back on it and be like, “What was that all about? I don't even know.” But it was great because even in the midst of a stressful season like that was a very stressful season, undeniable, but as part of that narrative it will not only be like, “Yeah it was really tough when my dad was away and you know my mom had to like single-parent us but that was also the season where my mom took us to roller skating lessons. Isn't that weird? That was so weird.” And we'll laugh about it.   And so, it's just about finding something that you want to do and then just unapologetically spend the money, spend the time, and invite a friend to do it with you again. Doing something with a friend is always more fun than doing something alone. Don't feel like you have to justify it or explain it to everyone you don't need to take pictures to post online you don't need to tell it just just go do it and have a good time. It's amazing how when you do that suddenly like those dust bunnies or that email that had a weird tone that you got don't annoy you as much as they used to because your kind of like finding your whole self again.   Laura Dugger: (56:05 - 56:27) That's helpful to remember to live life to the fullest and be ready for the next adventure that life's gonna throw at us. Yeah. And just as a bonus can we just ask what are some of the most common questions that you and Drew answer about space?   Stacey Morgan: (56:27 - 57:25) That's a good question. A lot of like personal hygiene questions about teeth brushing toilets how do you know take showers or whatever and of course the answer is they don't take showers. But and then of course a lot of people want to know, “Hey I've always been interested in becoming an astronaut how does somebody do that?”   And there are so many resources online people you know I say, “Look go online read all about it. There's amazing videos NASA puts out an incredible amount of resources that you can read up on but at the end of the day do what you are most passionate about because the likelihood that you, or your nephew, or your cousin, or your co-worker, your son, or, whoever it is that you know is convinced they want to be an astronaut the likelihood of them being an astronaut is very low. So you should do what just fills you up do a career and a life that you are passionate about and if God calls you to that path those doors will open but if He doesn't you'll still be living a life fully within God's purpose for you.”   Laura Dugger: (57:25 - 57:39) And Stacey you're such an incredible communicator both in this interview time together but also really enjoyed your book. And so, if people want to follow you to hear what you're up to next, where would you direct them online?   Stacey Morgan: (57:39 - 58:41) Sure well they can go to my website StaceyMorgan2000. That's like Stacey Morgan two zero zero zero dot com. That has my blog that has links to a different podcast like this that I've been on and they can check that out. They can find me on Instagram same handle StaceyMorgan2000.   And you know if people want to reach out, I love when people have been sending me messages lately after they've read the book it's been so awesome. You know I tell people like I certainly didn't write this book for the money I'm actually donating all my book proceeds to charities that support military families. So, I've been joking like, “Hey read the book if you don't like it the worst that happened is you donated to a military charity. If you do like it buy ten copies and give one to all your friends. But if you do like it I love it when people send me messages and just tell me kind of like what resonated and how it spoke to them.” That's just been one of the I would say the coolest aspect of completing this project was kind of putting it out there and then getting to see how God uses it in people's lives.   Laura Dugger: (58:41 - 59:02) There were so many things that resonated but off the top of my head if anybody has a copy of the book they'll have to turn to the part about baloney on sale friends. And Stacey you may know that we're called The Savvy Sauce because savvy is synonymous with practical knowledge and so as my final question for you today what is your savvy sauce?   Stacey Morgan: (59:02 - 1:01:08) Well I'll piggyback off your baloney is on sale friends' reference and that would be: pick up the phone and text your friend. We didn't need a study to show us this because I think most of us have just known this in our soul but there is an endemic of loneliness in the world right now as you know we've got all these ways to connect and yet people feel more disconnected. They feel more lonely especially women and what I learned through my own kind of relationship struggles over the years is that everyone's waiting for someone else to go first. That you in that moment you feel like you're the only person who's feeling lonely and alone and that everybody else is in these friend circles and you're just somehow on the outside. But the reality is that pretty much everybody feels the same way you do and everybody's sitting at home wishing someone would just text them and invite them to coffee.   So that's my practical tip is don't wait, go first be the bold friend or even acquaintance like it doesn't have to be someone that you are super besties with. But those baloney is on sale friends like I said you have to read the book and understand that that is like a special category of friendship that's the kind of friendship that our soul longs for but those things don't appear or like pop out of the ground. That kind of friend doesn't just show up it's developed over time it's invested in and cared for and loved and it starts with literally a text to go get coffee. That's how every great friendship story begins. So, if that's you, if you feel like yeah I don't have this close friend who I can do something with I'm lonely. Okay take that first step be the one who picks up the phone send that text message to the woman from church, or the woman from the gym, or that friend you haven't talked to in a while and just invite them over for coffee. Nothing fancy nothing crazy no agenda just come over for a couple hours for coffee. Every single person I know who does this no one ever regrets inviting a friend over for coffee. That's the first step that we can all take into just feeling more connected and having those kind of friends that we want.   Laura Dugger: (1:01:08 - 1:01:31) Love it. Well Stacy your book definitely changed my perspective on risk and I was so hooked on all the stories that you shared so I believe that your book is truly a gift to anyone who chooses to read it and your faith is very inspiring so thank you for sharing your journey with us and thank you for being my guest.   Stacey Morgan: (1:01:31 – 1:01:33) Well, thank you it's been great.   Laura Dugger: (1:01:33 – 1:05:16) One more thing before you go, have you heard the term gospel before? It simply means good news. And I want to share the best news with you, but it starts with the bad news.   Every single one of us were born sinners, but Christ desires to rescue us from our sin, which is something we cannot do for ourselves. This means there's absolutely no chance we can make it

AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports two Russians and one American are heading off to the International Space Station.

Breakthrough in Dark Matter Research: A potential game-changing discovery has emerged in the search for dark matter. An astronomer from the University of Tokyo has detected high-energy gamma rays that align with theoretical predictions for dark matter particle collisions. This intriguing signal could provide the first direct evidence of dark matter, specifically linked to the hypothesized WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), marking a monumental step in understanding one of the universe's greatest mysteries.Busy Week for Rocket Launches: This week is set to be a thrilling one for space enthusiasts, with a total of seven launches from five different rockets worldwide. SpaceX leads the way with three Falcon 9 missions, while a Russian Soyuz rocket will carry new crew members to the ISS. Additionally, military payloads and satellite launches from South Korea and French Guiana round out this international showcase of space exploration.Perseverance Rover's Curious Find: The Perseverance rover has discovered a sculpted rock on Mars, nicknamed Phi Staxhla, which is composed of iron and nickel—indicative of a meteorite. If confirmed, this would be the first meteorite identified by Perseverance since its landing in February 2021, offering a fascinating glimpse into the planet's history.Osiris Apophis Explorer's Earth Philip: The Osiris Apophis Explorer spacecraft, previously known for its sample return from asteroid Bennu, recently completed a gravity assist flyby of Earth. Flying within 2,100 miles of our planet, the spacecraft successfully calibrated its instruments, capturing stunning images of Earth as it prepares for its new mission targeting asteroid Apophis.Escapade Mission's First Selfies: NASA's Escapade mission, featuring twin spacecraft, has sent back its first selfies, confirming that its camera system is functioning properly. This reassuring image marks a significant milestone as the spacecraft embark on their long journey, ready to explore the mysteries of our solar system.Boiling Oceans on Icy Moons: A groundbreaking study suggests that even small icy moons, previously thought to be frozen solid, might host boiling oceans. Tidal forces could generate enough heat in their cores to keep water in a liquid state, potentially creating environments suitable for life, even in total darkness. This discovery expands the search for habitable worlds beyond traditional boundaries.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, TikTok, and our new Instagram account! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna and Avery signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and exploring the wonders of our universe.✍️ Episode ReferencesDark Matter Discovery[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/)Rocket Launch Schedule[SpaceX](https://www.spacex.com/)Perseverance Rover Findings[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars-rovers/perseverance/overview.html)Osiris Apophis Explorer Mission[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/overview/index.html)Escapade Mission Updates[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/escapade)Boiling Oceans Research[Science Journal](https://www.science.org/)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates--5648921/support.Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.bitesz.com/nordvpn. You'll be glad you did!Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.bitesz.com/nordvpn. You'll be glad you did!Become a supporter of Astronomy Daily by joining our Supporters Club. Commercial free episodes daily are only a click way... Click HereThis episode includes AI-generated content.

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched an Iranian-built communication satellite to Earth orbit. SES and the Luxembourg Government are planning to develop a second satellite for GovSat. Cascade Space has raised $5.9 million in seed funding, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest We are joined by NASASpaceflight.com with the Space Traffic Report. Selected Reading Russian rocket launches Iran satellite into space: Iranian media-Al Jazeera SES and the Luxembourg Government to Develop and Launch New Defence Satellite for GovSat Cascade Space Announces $5.9M Seed Funding to Build End-To-End Space Communication Platform Blue Origin's First Blue Ring Mission To Demonstrate Space Domain Awareness with Scout Space Sensor AV Reveals Skyfall: Future Concept Next-Gen Mars Helicopters for Exploration and Human Landing Preparation Road to Space - Arianespace Millennium Space Systems Begins On-Orbit Commissioning of NASA's TRACERS Mission Following Successful Launch Sidus Space Unveils LunarLizzie™: A Next-Generation 800kg-Class Lunar Platform Designed with Proven Edge AI for Near Real-Time Intelligence Satellite tracker Spaceflux reaches lift-off with £5m funding boost Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar takes champagne into space T-Minus Crew Survey Complete our annual audience survey before August 31. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colonel Chris Hadfield is a veteran of three spaceflights. He crewed the US space shuttle twice, piloted the Russian Soyuz, helped build space station Mir and served as Commander of the International Space Station. Getting words and language right in as clear and a concise way is a matter of life and death for astronauts. Crews are traditionally made up of different nationalities and Russian is second to English on board. Chris Hadfield who flew several missions and captained the International Space Station talks about how astronauts communicate and the special language they use that he dubs NASA speak. He speaks several languages and lived in Russia for twenty years. As an author he has written several novels based on his experience in Space and as a fighter pilot the latest of which is The Defector. His books The Apollo Murders are being made into a series for TV. He tells Michael about the obligation he feels to share in words as best he can an experience that so few people have - of being in space and seeing Earth from afar.Producer: Maggie Ayre

Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your go-to source for the latest in space and astronomy news. Today, we've got an exciting lineup of stories that will take you on a journey through some of the most intriguing recent updates in the cosmos. From SpaceX's remarkable new mission to hidden reservoirs of liquid water on Mars and a flurry of rocket launches, we've got it all covered for you. Plus, we'll delve into fascinating findings from the Gaia Space Telescope. So sit back, relax, and let's dive into today's stellar stories.- **SpaceX's Groundbreaking Polar Mission**: SpaceX has announced a privately financed mission that will send a diverse international crew of four around Earth's poles. This historic flight will feature a blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer, and a robotics researcher. Leading the team is Chun Wang, a well-known blockchain pioneer. The mission, named Fram II, will last between three to five Daily and aims to observe the ice caps and extreme polar environments from space for the first time. The Crew Dragon capsule will orbit Earth at altitudes between 265 and 280 miles, offering a unique vantage point for the crew.- **Hidden Water Reservoirs on Mars**: Recent studies using data from NASA's Mars InSight lander have indicated the presence of liquid water deep beneath the Martian surface. These findings suggest that Mars's subsurface could hold vast reservoirs of water, potentially even more extensive than previously thought. This discovery is monumental as water is a key ingredient for life. Researchers believe that microbial life could exist in these underground reservoirs, similar to Earth.- **Rocket Launch Roundup**: This week is packed with activity, featuring four major rocket launches. A Russian Soyuz rocket will make another resupply mission to the International Space Station, carrying approximately 2400 kg of vital supplies. The Indian Space Research Organization will achieve a significant milestone with the final certification flight of its new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle. SpaceX will also have a busy week with two Falcon 9 launches, including the WorldView Legion 3 and 4 mission and the Transporter-11 rideshare mission, carrying around 50 small payloads from various countries.- **Gaia Space Telescope's Discoveries**: The Gaia Space Telescope has identified more than 350 potential moons around asteroids, offering new insights into the dynamics of binary asteroid systems. This detection was achieved by observing the gravitational wobble in the light signals captured by Gaia. Lead author Luana Liberato and her team at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in France spearheaded this innovative study. This discovery suggests that a significant fraction of asteroids in our solar system could have moons, reshaping our understanding of these celestial bodies.For more Astronomy Daily, including our continually updating newsfeed, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Follow us on social media at AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok. We love engaging with our community, so be sure to drop us a message or comment on your favorite platform.For more Space and Astronomy News Podcasts, visit our HQ at www.bitesz.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

The much-delayed crewed test flight is back on the calendar, despite a helium leak. Also, researchers used data from the crowd-sourcing nature observation app iNaturalist to rank animals' tolerance of urban environments.Starliner Crewed Test Flight Rescheduled For This WeekendA long-delayed test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is back on the calendar for Saturday, June 1, carrying astronauts to the International Space Station. It's a demonstration flight as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program, intended to show that the new spacecraft design can be a practical and safe way to get people into space. If the flight is successful, NASA can then consider using the Boeing Starliner system for crewed flights to the ISS, joining the current fleet of craft from SpaceX and the Russian Soyuz program.The Starliner launch has been delayed numerous times. Its most recent launch attempt, on May 6, was scrubbed when systems flagged a bad valve in a rocket booster. That booster valve was replaced, but engineers then detected a small leak in the spacecraft's helium thruster system, which led to still further delays. They have now determined that the flight can proceed even with the leaky system, allowing the upcoming launch attempt.Science Friday senior producer Charles Bergquist joins guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross to talk about the upcoming launch, and about other stories from the week in science, including the return of an active solar region responsible for recent fantastic aurora displays, research into how the brain decodes the meaning of “not,” and the announcement of two new giant pandas headed to the National Zoo.Which Animals Like Cities Most? Slugs And Snails Top The List.If you live in an urban environment, it might seem like the animals you see every day—birds, bugs, squirrels—have adapted perfectly fine to city life.But according to a new study in PLOS ONE, that isn't always the case. Urbanization is directly linked to biodiversity loss, but researchers at UCLA, including Joey Curti and Dr. Morgan Tingley, wanted to find out specifically which animals thrive and which struggle in urban environments. So they turned to iNaturalist, a crowd-sourcing app where users upload photos of flora and fauna they see, along with information like location and date.The team combed through years of iNaturalist data in the Los Angeles metro area and developed an “urban tolerance score” for 511 animal species. This score, which incorporated data such as light and noise pollution from different sections of the city, was a factor tied to those species' level of tolerance to the local environment.They found that snails and slugs love urban environments, likely thanks to increased moisture from local landscaping. But most other animals, including native species, and especially bugs like butterflies and moths, were not as tolerant to the region.Joey Curti, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and a co-author on that study, sits down with guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross to discuss the results of the study and what cities can learn from this kind of research to encourage healthy biodiversity.Transcripts for each segment will be available after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

World News in 7 minutes. Tuesday 26th March 2024.Today: Argentina coup anniversary. Canada student strike. Senegal Faye win expected. Libyan fuel smuggling. E and S Africa British finance. Indonesian army apology. India Delhi minister arrested. UN Gaza road aid. Russia terror arrests. Russian Soyuz docks. French Macron Brazil. Barcelona Sagrada Familia completed 2026.With Juliet MartinIf you enjoy the podcast please help to support us at send7.org/supportSupporters can read the transcripts at send7.org/transcriptsSupporters can try our weekly news quiz at send7.org/quizContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) tells the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett  and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts can be found at send7.org/transcripts. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they listen to SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.For more information visit send7.org/contact

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports on the successful launch of a Russian rocket to the International Space Station.

**Hosts:** Charlie and the Astronomy Daily Team---**Episode Summary:**Strap in for a space-bound adventure with Charlie and the Astronomy Daily Team in season 3, episode 15, as we traverse the celestial sea to bring you a constellation of news that's as varied and vibrant as the cosmos itself. In this episode, we find ourselves at the edge of our seats with a Soyuz spacecraft launch abort just seconds from liftoff, marvel at the James Webb Space Telescope's revelations of ancient black holes, and dream of aerial explorers on Mars. We'll also ponder the solitary journeys of brown dwarfs and rally for the preservation of the moon's far side as a sanctuary for radio astronomy. Join us on this voyage through the final frontier, where space, time, and human ambition intersect in the great cosmic ballet of exploration.---**Featured Topics:**1. **Soyuz Launch Aborted:** An in-depth look at the heart-stopping moment when a Russian Soyuz launch was halted just 20 seconds before liftoff, and what this means for the future of space travel.2. **James Webb's Black Hole Discovery:** Delve into the cosmic plot twist revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope—massive black holes in the universe's toddler years that challenge our understanding of galactic evolution.3. **MAGIE's Martian Prospects:** Explore the potential of NASA's innovative Mars explorer concept, MAGIE, and its 18 propellers that could change the way we scout the Martian terrain.4. **Brown Dwarfs' Lonely Endgame:** Uncover the reasons behind the solitary paths of aging brown dwarfs as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, shedding light on the dynamics of celestial relationships.5. **Protecting the Moon's Far Side:** Discuss the importance of preserving the moon's far side as an unrivaled haven for deep space radio astronomy, and the efforts to protect this unique scientific resource.---**Additional Information:**For a galaxy of episodes and the latest cosmic news, visit astronomydaily.io and subscribe to our newsletter. Share your thoughts with us by leaving a review—your insights are as valuable as the stars themselves. And remember, the universe is always speaking; we're just here to listen.---**Next Episode Preview:**Steve and Hallie will return on Monday to guide you through the latest in space and astronomy news. Keep an eye out for more episodes that promise to elevate your understanding of the cosmos and spark your celestial curiosity.---**Closing Remarks:**As we conclude this episode of Astronomy Daily, we thank you for joining us on a journey that spans from the precarious moments of human spaceflight to the silent whispers of the universe. Keep your eyes to the skies and your curiosity boundless. Until next time, this is Charlie, wishing you clear skies and happy stargazing.---**Host Sign-off:** Charlie: "Thank you for tuning in to Astronomy Daily. Until our paths cross again in this grand cosmic journey, this is Charlie signing off. Clear skies, everyone!

Dr. Karen Nyberg is an engineer, astronaut, and artist who, through nearly thirty years of experience in human spaceflight, has gained an appreciation for the value of working within and across diverse political ideologies, cultural values, and world views to advance critical missions. In this episode of Casual Space, Beth and Karen delve into Karen's journey from learning how to sew by her mother, to creating art inspired by her space missions. Karen discusses her love for quilting, which she began during graduate school, and how the breathtaking views from the space station influenced her artwork. She recounts her interactions with fellow astronaut-artist Alan Bean and the challenges of finding creative time in space and making a special dinosaur quilt for her son. Additionally, Karen shares her experiences with space food, her fabric design work, and her passion for trail running. The episode provides a glimpse into how Karen balanced her professional duties with her artistic pursuits and personal life, both on Earth and in orbit. Check out Karen's artwork and more:  https://karennyberg.com/ About Karen:  Karen was selected as a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps in 2000. She made her first trip to space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2008, during the height of International Space Station (ISS) construction, delivering and installing the Japanese Laboratory. On her second spaceflight in 2013, Karen launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and lived and worked at ISS for 166 days. Prior to astronaut selection, Karen worked as an Environmental Control Systems Engineer at the Johnson Space Center where she led several design and analysis initiatives in the areas of space vehicle and space suit thermal and environmental control.  Recently retired from NASA, Karen is currently pursuing interests in the areas of conservation and sustainability, fully appreciating the responsibility for innovation and technology to strive to meet those needs. Karen received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and has been honored with the highest alumni award from each alma mater. Karen lives in Park City, Utah with her husband, Astronaut Doug Hurley, their son, Jack, and two sweet dogs, Leo and Luke.  

What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here's what it taught him. A curious phenomenon often occurs when astronauts travel to space and look out on our planet for the first time: They see how interconnected and fragile life on Earth is, and they feel a sudden responsibility to protect it. Astronaut @RonGaran experienced this so-called “overview effect” when he first saw Earth from space. When he looked out on the planet, he saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life, all protected by a remarkably thin atmosphere. What he did not see was the thing that society often gives top priority: the economy. For Garan, seeing Earth from space revealed problems like global warming, deforestation, and biodiversity loss are not disconnected. They are the symptoms of an underlying flaw in how we perceive ourselves as humans: We fail to realize that we are a planetary species. 0:00 The lie humanity is living 1:28 Escaping Plato's cave 2:15 What astronaut's see in space 4:07 The orbital perspective 4:50 The ‘dolly zoom': gain mental altitude About Ron Garan: Former NASA astronaut, serial entrepreneur, humanitarian, and highly decorated combat fighter Ron Garan racked up 178 days in space and more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits between tours on the US Space Shuttle, Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station. During his time in space, Garan conducted four spacewalks in support of ISS construction and maintenance. Prior to those space journeys, he lived and conducted research on the bottom of the ocean in the world's only undersea research lab, Aquarius. Before reaching the summit of his career, Garan, a former test pilot and graduate of the US Naval Test Pilot School, taught hundreds of elite fighter pilots how to "up their game" as a flight instructor at the prestigious USAF Fighter Weapons School, the Air Force version of TOP GUN. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books: The Orbital Perspective, Floating in Darkness: A Journey of Evolution, and the children's book, Railroad to the Moon. Garan is celebrated not just for his research in space but also for his humanitarian contribution to life on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of NordVPN. To check out the special deal we have for, please visit www.nordvpn.com/stuartgary - you'll be glad you did.In this episode:**Mars Curiosity Rover's Discovery**: Unearth the secrets of the Red Planet with NASA's latest findings. Ancient mud cracks suggest potential life-friendly conditions on Mars. Dive deep into the significance of these hexagonal patterns and what they mean for the history of microbial life. - **Europe's Eucalyptus Spacecraft's Journey**: Join the European Space Agency as their spacecraft reaches its final orbit. Discover its mission alongside the James Webb Space Telescope and the mysteries they aim to unravel. - **Fiery Skies Over Melbourne**: Experience the awe as Melbourne's sky lights up with space junk from a Russian Soyuz rocket. Learn about the mission behind this rocket and where the debris finally settled. - **Euclid's Mission to Uncover Dark Matter**: Embark on a cosmic journey with the European Space Agency's Euclid spacecraft. Delve into its mission to study dark matter, dark energy, and the accelerating expansion of the universe. - **Science Report Highlights**: Explore the latest in science, from the tragic history of Europe's first human inhabitants to the alarming climate changes in Asia. Stay updated with the most recent discoveries and studies shaping our understanding of the world. Stay tuned with "SpaceTime with Stuart Gary" for more exciting space adventures and scientific revelations.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 August 2023: Space Show News: Chandrayaan-3 Luna 25 Chang'e 7 Euclid Aeolus mission ends The third stage of a Russian Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket makes a fiery re-entry over Melbourne, Australia Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: The testimony of David Grusch to the United States Congress on UAPs, their possible origin, a dozen retrieved crashed UAPs, and non-human biologics; Ryan Graves on a 100 yard square UAP allegedly seen at Vandenberg Air Force Base; and commentary by Andrew Rennie. What does UAP stand for? UAP stands for "unidentified anomalous phenomena," a catch-all term to describe objects detected in the air, sea and space that defy easy explanation. The acronym stood for "unidentified aerial phenomena" until December 2022, when the Pentagon updated its terminology to encompass "submerged and trans-medium objects," as one official put it at the time. NASA and other agencies soon followed suit. What are UAPs? By definition, unidentified anomalous phenomena are just that — unidentified. But generally the term refers to objects spotted by pilots or detected by sensors that cannot be immediately explained.

The greater the value of space, the greater the risks. The rise of the space economy is accelerating the business, operational and human risks. Are we prepared to handle them? The Safe Space podcast series – part of the Reducing the Risks of Space campaign – will explore policy, law, technology and operations in development now to manage the challenging space environment of the future. The first episode features a conversation between Elizabeth Evans, Partner at K&L Gates – who joins us to speak about the Space Shuttle Children's Trust Fund – and Kathryn Lueders, Former Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA (now retired) and a member of the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame. Elizabeth Evans is a partner at the New York office of K&L Gates. She is a member of the asset and corporate finance practice group and heads the airfinance practice in the Americas. She concentrates her practice in structured asset-based finance, and focuses on aviation finance (both fixed wing and rotary), satellite finance, transportation finance, and project finance. She also engages in related transactional, regulatory and policy work for aviation, aerospace and space industries. Her practice includes private placements of debt and equity, leveraged equipment leasing and all aspects of the law relating to outer space (both domestic and international). Prior to joining the firm, Elizabeth served as a partner in the financial institutions group at an international law firm, where she focused her practice on aviation and other asset-based finance, (including satellite, railcars, trucks and heavy equipment finance transactions), as well as space law policy work. Elizabeth has represented banks, financial institutions, credit capital corporations, private equity investors, governmental agencies, export credit agencies and leasing companies in complex structured financings, including air traffic control system financings, airport and terminal development projects and aviation, rail car and truck financings. She has spent many years working on restructurings (both in court and out-of-court) during economic downturns. She has done both debtor side and lender/lessor side work in numerous aviation restructurings, and has represented private equity funds in the purchase of distressed equity positions in equipment finance. She helped arrange and conduct unique foreclosures and auctions of satellites orbiting in space. She has also played an instrumental role in drafting legislation relating to the laws of outer space. For nearly thirty years, Kathryn Lueders has played an indispensable role in bringing the capabilities of the commercial space and satellite industry to NASA; serving human space exploration missions though new technology, practices of cost savings, and opening valuable opportunities for the industry. Kathryn began her career at NASA in 1992 as the Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System and Reaction Control Systems Depot Manager for the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, after completing two Bachelor's degrees in Science and Business Administration and a Masters of Science degree. Kathy moved to the International Space Station (ISS) Program next and served in a variety of managerial roles covering space station Logistics and Maintenance, Vehicle Systems Integration and Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Integration. In November 2007, Kathryn became responsible for expanding the range of launch vehicles providing access to the International Space Station. She established the Program's Transportation Integration where she oversaw international partner vehicles, including the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Japanese Space Agency's H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), and the Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft. In that role, she also managed the development and execution of the Commercial Resupply services contracts which began delivery of cargo to the ISS in 2012 and now have now delivered over 100,000 lbs of cargo to the International Space Station. She was inducted into the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame in 2021.

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will soon tell us the names of the astronauts who will travel around the Moon. Plus, Blue Origin explains why the New Shepard abort happened in September. The damaged Russian Soyuz has returned to Earth without a crew and Kazakhstan has seized Russian assets on Baikonour spaceport.

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: On this Valentine's Day, Scott has an incredibly romantic show with sultry topics such as… the anniversary of the Emergencies Act being invoked? Additionally, the launch of a Russian Soyuz crew capsule to replace a damaged ferry ship docked at the International Space Station has been delayed, following a second incident that resulted in similar damage to a Progress cargo ship, according to a senior official on Monday. Paul Delaney, astronomy at York U gives us the 411. Hamilton 100's bid is no longer Canada's “preferred candidate” to host the international event, Commonwealth Sport Canada said in an email to organizers Monday. Disappointing to all, including PJ Mercanti CEO of Carmen's Group who speaks with Scott about the process. Russia's ambassador in Ottawa claims Canada is unsafe for his compatriots to visit. "Canada today is a very dangerous country for Russian citizens," Oleg Stepanov said in a Russian-language interview last Friday. "I would not recommend it for tourism, education or business." Post-Soviet expert Matthew Light joins us for that. . It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast! Guests: Paul Delaney. Professor of Astronomy, York University. PJ Mercanti, CEO of Carmen's Group, President of the Hamilton Urban Precinct Entertainment Group. Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author, ‘Retail Before, During & After COVID-19' Colin D'Mello, Queen's Park Bureau Chief, Global News. Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University. Matthew Light, Associate professor of criminology and sociological studies, affiliated faculty, centre for European, Russian and Eurasian studies, University of Toronto. Norm Schleehan, Director, Economic Development, City of Hamilton. Duff Conacher, Co-Founder of Democracy Watch. Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley Show on 900CHML Columnist for the Hamilton Spectator. Host – Scott Thompson Content Producer – William Erskine Technical/Podcast Producer - William Webber Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan News Anchor – David Woodard Want to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://megaphone.link/CORU8835115919

Christopher Cassidy, the President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation (“NMOHMF”), is this episode's guest. Chris attended the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL, before becoming a commander of SEAL units in Afghanistan. After Chris left the SEALs, he joined NASA as an astronaut, flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor and Russian Soyuz spacecraft, commanded the International Space Station, and eventually rose to NASA's Chief Astronaut.  In total, Chris has spent the fifth most time of any human being in space.  After leaving the military, Chris was tapped to lead the NMOHMF.  During the podcast, Chris and Brooke discuss how the museum (which recently broke ground in Arlington, Texas) came to be, how it will honor the 3,511 Medal of Honor recipients, and how a monument to be built in Washington, D.C. by the NMOHMF, as well as the Foundation's Leadership Institute, will share the stories of these incredible heroes with current and future generations.  (0:26). Website:  https://mohmuseum.org/

Astronaut Ron Garan has spent 178 days in space and has traveled more than 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. He flew on both the US space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, lived on the international space station, and accomplished four spacewalks. His new book is “Floating in Darkness, a Journey of Evolution.” Space exploration, he says, is the secret to bringing humans together here on Earth. (best of)Support Hidden Truth Show by going to http://www.patreon.com/hiddentruthshow and pledging just $5/month and receive access to Jim and special content and a Hidden Truth cap!Website: http://www.hiddentruthshow.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/hiddentruthshowInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/hiddentruthshow

Dimitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency, stated that resuming co-operation on the ISS and other projects would be difficult until all sanctions against Moscow were repealed. Russian Soyuz rockets have been critical in transporting equipment, supplies, and personnel to the International Space Station since its inception. However, the situation in Ukraine has thrown that long-standing cooperation into disarray. Russia's global space allies are attempting to get Moscow to halt its offensive on Ukraine by imposing heavy sanctions. So, how will this all play out, and could Russia seek help from China to keep its space program afloat? Guests: Subrata Ghoshroy Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Boyer Engineer and Writer

Dennis Tito, a 60 year-old investment manager from California, blasted into orbit onboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on 28th April, 2001 - becoming the first ever private citizen to visit the International Space Station. He had self-funded the trip, to the tune of $20 million - much to the displeasure of his former employers, NASA, who initially refused to provide him with any training. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly consider the social dynamics of the ISS; explain why NASA has flip-flopped about space tourism over the decades; and explore whether Tito's trip was, in fact, money well spent…  Further Reading: • ‘World's first space tourist 10 years on: Dennis Tito' (BBC News, 2011): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13208329 • ‘First space tourist Dennis Tito: 'It was the greatest moment of my life' (CNN Travel, 2021): https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/space-tourism-20-year-anniversary-scn/index.html • ‘Dennis Tito on the Late Show' (CBS, 2001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtv6xl0NLc #2000s #Explorer #Space #Russia For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/Retrospectors We'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill. Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Alexa Weissman. Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Som vi har fortalt om tidligere her i RumSnak, så består hele 80 procent af universet – så vidt vi ved – af såkaldt 'mørkt stof', altså en eller anden form for partikler, som vi bare ikke kan detektere eller interagere med. Men det usynlige stof er nødvendigt for at kunne forklare både himmellegemers og galaksers bevægelser, og endda hele universets udvidelse. Af samme grund ville det jo være kolossalt interessant at kunne observere og måle på mørkt stof, og det bliver der bestemt også arbejdet på – dog indtil videre uden held. Der findes dog også folk, som arbejder med alternative forklaringer – og en af de mere spekulative går ud på, at der ikke "mangler stof" i universet, det er simpelthen vores naturlove, der fungerer anderledes end vi hidtil har troet! Teorien hedder Modified Newtonion Dynamics, MOND, men har indrømmet nogle vanskeligheder. Ikke desto mindre er det vigtigt at undersøge alternative forklaringsmodeller, fortæller vores gæst, lektor Mads Toudal Frandsen fra Syddans Universitet. Udover det mørke stof har vi også som sædvanlig samlet en stor håndfuld rumnyheder og bonushistorier, altsammen lige her i RumSnak – hvor du også denne gang kan deltage i konkurrencen om at vinde 2 billetter til Dansk Arkitektur Center i København, og se udstillingen om rumarkitekterne fra SAGA, der var på mission i Nordgrønland i deres hjemmebyggede habitat. Skriv til os på Twitter, Facebook eller LinkedIn – eller send en mail til info@RumSnak.dk med dit rumspørgsmål for at deltage i konkurrencen God fornøjelse

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 39*New properties discovered in hybrid matter -- antimatter heliumPhysicists have found that a hybrid matter -- antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton – the antimatter equivalent of the proton -- in place of one of the two electrons has been found to have an unexpected response to laser light when immersed in superfluid helium.*Studies suggest Enceladus's oceans boilA new study claims the famous south pole Tiger stripes fissures on the Saturnian ice moon Enceladus are caused by sea water pressure due to expanding ice.*OneWeb switches from Soyuz to SpaceXBroadband internet satellite operator OneWeb has dumped the Russian Soyuz launcher in favour of SpaceX's Falcon 9 after Russia refused to launch a rocket containing OneWeb satellites.*The Science ReportPlanet Earth's poles continuing to get warmer.More internet time linked to higher stress in teens.Discovery of a fabric that can hear sounds,#Skeptic's guide to how to really scare peopleListen to SpaceTime on your favorite podcast app with our universal listen link: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com/listen For more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen to. Thank you…To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com#astronomy #space #science #news #astrophysics #cosmology #podcast #spacetime

This week we discuss the nuanced topic of launch independence, the ability of a single country to continue their space programs regardless of global conflict that might interrupt international partnerships like the ISS and other space ventures. Given the continuing conflict in Ukraine, this story continues to develop. NASA also rolled out the SLS for the first time from the VAB to Pad 39B, which marks a momentus moment for Artemis 1 just around the corner. Looking forward to seeing that rocket in person in a few months! We're trying to go down to Florida and take it all in! Having a moon rocket along with all of our amazing "broomsticks" here in the US provides us an opportunity to continue our progress in space without the need for the Russian Soyuz system. US launch independence is at an all time strength given the last 10 years of work to allow America to launch its own Astronauts from American soil. What happened? How did we get here? Why are we so lucky? We attempt to answer those question throughout this episode. We also discuss the challenge others around the world are having now, as missions are getting shuffled now that organizations like ESA & JAXA who might have relied on Russian Soyuz launches to go to space. Even competitive rivals like OneWeb and Starlink are joining together to launch on American rockets to avoid delay and collapse of millions of invested dollars. It is a complex situation, and strangely the Space Force predicted these types of changes in their outline of Space Future 2060 release in 2019. All this and more on this weeks episode! https://spacenews.com/u-s-general-starlink-in-ukraine-showing-us-what-megaconstellations-can-do/ https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-delay-mars-sample-return-switch-to-dual-lander-approach/ Follow us on social: - @todayinspacepod on instragram & twitter - @todayinspace on TikTok - /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook How to Support the podcast: Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop ag3dprinting.etsy.com Donate at todayinspace.net Share the podcast with friends & family!

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 35*NASA extends the Mars helicopter's missionNASA has extended flight operations of its Mars Ingenuity Helicopter through to at least September.*Work on the Space Station continues despite growing tensions on the groundNASA says that despite the growing tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine astronaut Mark Vande Hei will return to Earth from the International Space Station -- as planned -- aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.*Astra launches three satellites from AlaskaAstra Space has successfully launched three small satellites into orbit from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island in Alaska.*The Science ReportEvidence that people pushing homeopathy are only showing studies which have positive results.Claims children who spend more time in front of screens have more behavioural issues.New study shows people using speed are five times more likely to have psychosis.Alex on Tech: new key updates for Apple IOS and Samsung.Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite podcast app with our universal listen link: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com/listen For more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen to. Thank you…To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com

On this episode of This Week in Space, we'll tell you everything you need to know to fly your own rockets (mostly responsibly)--it's fun, it's safe, and it's a great hobby for a family to do together. Also, Virgin Orbit to launch from Old Blighty, tugboats headed for orbit, and astronaut Scott Kelly, who has flown on the Russian Soyuz, returns his Russian-awarded spaceflight medal in protest. Join us!  Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Blueland.com/SPACE itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

On this episode of This Week in Space, we'll tell you everything you need to know to fly your own rockets (mostly responsibly)--it's fun, it's safe, and it's a great hobby for a family to do together. Also, Virgin Orbit to launch from Old Blighty, tugboats headed for orbit, and astronaut Scott Kelly, who has flown on the Russian Soyuz, returns his Russian-awarded spaceflight medal in protest. Join us!  Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Blueland.com/SPACE itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 49th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast #049 Urs Ganse, refreshing nerd talk about all things space you may never have heard about Episode 049 features a special guest Urs GanseDeep in a forest in Finland, miles from the nearest settlement, Urs Ganse lives in a cabin by a lake. Urs is a plasma physicist. He doesn't need much. An Internet connection to the nearest supercomputer is all he asks for. That's how people work up there in the north. After work, at night, when Urs still has some time, he writes manuals about building spaceships, or he meets with like-minded people in an ancient corner of the Internet, where some of the strangest and most unknown information about space travel is collected. For example: how to fly an old Russian Soyuz capsule. But that's just the beginning.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.You can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Deep in a forest in Finland, miles from the nearest settlement, Urs Ganse lives in a cabin by a lake. Urs is a plasma physicist. He doesn't need much. An Internet connection to the nearest supercomputer is all he asks for. That's how people work up there in the north. After work, at night, when Urs still has some time, he writes manuals about building spaceships, or he meets with like-minded people in an ancient corner of the Internet, where some of the strangest and most unknown information about space travel is collected. For example: how to fly an old Russian Soyuz capsule. But that's just the beginning. Host: Markus Mooslechner: Markus Mooslechner Guest: Urs GanseUrs GanseThe Spacefarer's Handbook: Science and Life Beyond Earth Publisher: Torsten Kriening: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torsten-kriening-68456/ Who we are?SpaceWatch.Global is a digital magazine and portal for those interested in space, and the far-reaching impact that space developments have. While showcasing the technology that enables the industry to edge closer to the next frontier, SpaceWatch.Global also provides analysis, forecasts, and insight into the geopolitical implications of space developments. From space policy, exploration, and missions, to space weapons and technology, we provide a complete perspective on the emerging space sector as it expands into a global marketplace. The team behind SpaceWatch.Global is a dynamic mix of space geeks, tech junkies, space policy experts, regional specialists, and passionate writers. We fully believe that space should be used for humanity, that it enables knowledge, and enriches societies.SpaceWatch.Global is published by ThorGroup GmbH, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. In the true Swiss spirit, neutrality, ethics and integrity are at our core. SpaceWatch.Global abides by the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics; we seek the truth and report on it. ThorGroup GmbHWaaghausgasse 183011 BernSwitzerlandWebsite: www.spacewatch.global Email: info@thorgroup.ch Exclusive distribution Partner: Bookwire - www.bookwire.de See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 143The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.*James Webb Space Telescope launches into spaceThe James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully launched into orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.*NASA touches the SunFor the first time in history a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached the Sun's extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, spending five hours there.*Giant asteroid near missAn asteroid the size of the Eiffel tower has just zoomed past the Earth.*ExoMars discovers water hidden in Mars' Grand CanyonAstronomers have found significant amounts of water hidden in the red planet's massive Valles Marineris canyon system.*Galileo launchArianespace have launched two more European Galileo navigation satellites into orbit using a Russian Soyuz rocket.*The Science ReportYou are far more likely to get COVID after six months without a jab.Phase three trials of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine show it to be 90.4 per cent effective.A new arctic temperature record reaching a sweltering 38° Celsius.A new study has found that the western honey bee most likely originated in Asia.Skeptic's guide to COVID-19 vaccine detoxListen to SpaceTime with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetimeFor more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen too. Thank you…To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 December 2021: Launch coverage of Soyuz MS-20: a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station launched on 8 December 2021. Soyuz MS-20 is commanded by a single professional cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin, and carries two space tourists, Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano for the space tourism company Space Adventures. NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): A space observatory built to discover the secrets of some of the most extreme objects in the universe – the remnants of supernova explosions and more. Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut mission end: A profile of his second mission aboard the International Space Station and his personal reflections on seeing the Earth from space. Twelve astronaut candidates have been selected to begin training at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston in January 2022. The 17th flight of the ingenuity helicopter above the surface of Mars. The science objectives of the Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids. The Queensland-based Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced its latest project, the DART AE. DART AE is the world's first 3D printed hypersonic platform in high-temperature alloys - and it's made in Australia. NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) asteroid impactor: NASA's first planetary defence mission The European Space Agency's Hera mission Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) cubesat mission Distributing the rewards of asteroid mining operations with Prof Christian Barry, the Centre for Social, Moral and Political Theory at the Australian National University in Canberra Using supernovae as ‘Standard Candles' and the Nancy Roman Space Telescope Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's icy moon: What's the big deal about Europa?

CERBA is hosting an exceptional guest on this episode of IceBreakers: a heavily decorated astronaut, engineer, and pilot - Colonel Chris Hadfield. Chris is an astounding pioneer of many historic "firsts": the first astronaut to operate Canadarm in space, the first Canadian to board and pilot a Russian "Soyuz" spacecraft, the first and only Canadian ever to command an International Space Station (so far).Chris is sharing his stories about living, working and playing music in space, his life in Russia and being an influencer. He is also talking about his new book, "The Apollo Murders" - an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, described as "Nail-biting" by James Cameron, another Canadian star, the writer and director of Avatar and Titanic.Related Links to the episode:Chris Hadfield - "The Apollo Murders"NASARoscosmosTimeline:00:00 Intro00:40 Introducing Chris Hadfield2:08 Is Chris Hadfield an influencer?4:14 Music is everywhere (including the Space Station)5:36 "Menya zovut Chris Hadfield" - studying orbital mechanics in Russian 9:13 What do astronauts do before launch?12:28 Enriching life in Russian apartment14:45 Life in space20:44 "The Apollo Murders" - an exciting journey to an alternate past24:43 The mission that never really happened or did it?32:58 Back to the gravity36:46 Democratizing space travel40:14 How to land a "Soyuz"41:30 What made Chris a leader?42:01 What does the future hold for Chris Hadfield?43:24 Will Nathan lose his moon estate?45:44 ConclusionIcebreakers is produced by CERBA, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.cerbanet.org

The cast discusses a newly discovered "space pac-man", the Russian Soyuz module is on the fritz spinning the ISS 540 degrees, and scientists reaching the coldest temperature yet with freefalling-vacuum chambers with oscillating magnetic-fields. Joe tries to wrap his head around quantum mechanics. Watch The AstroCast live every Monday at 8pm PST on YouTube Highlights posted every Friday at 5pm on YouTube Podcast posted on all major platforms every Friday at 5pm PST https://twitch.tv/joesees https://anchor.fm/astrocastlive https://open.spotify.com/show/5Z1fvDUil5us2Gki52ZDPq Sources https://www.space.com/pac-man-shaped-supernova-remnant https://www.space.com/russian-soyuz-thrusters-tilt-space-station-again https://www.space.com/jupiter-moon-europa-atmosphere-water-vapor https://www.space.com/lucy-asteroid-spacecraft-solar-array-glitch https://www.space.com/nasa-lucy-asteroids-mission-targets https://www.space.com/china-shenzhou-13-astronauts-begin-space-station-work https://www.space.com/coldest-temperature-ever

We all dreamt to be an astronaut and go to space when we were kids, even as adults. My guest did it. Colonel Terry Virts did it. He is one of only four astronauts to have piloted a Space Shuttle, flown a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed spacewalks, and commanded the ISS. He served in the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Col Virts has a unique perspective about the earth, having taken more photos from space than any other astronaut. His photography is featured in his National Geographic book, View From Above. His latest book, How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth, was released worldwide on Sep. 15, 2020. Colonel Terry Virts said Yes and is joining me to talk about being an astronaut, share his experiences and answer all your questions. It is your turn to say Yes and discover space through his eyes.

Astronaut Ron Garan has spent 178 days in space and has traveled more than 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. He flew on both the US space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, lived on the international space station, and accomplished four spacewalks. His new book is “Floating in Darkness, a Journey of Evolution.” Space exploration, he says, is the secret to bringing humans together here on Earth.Support Hidden Truth Show by going to http://www.patreon.com/hiddentruthshow and pledging just $5/month and receive access to Jim and special content and a Hidden Truth cap!Website: http://www.hiddentruthshow.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/hiddentruthshowInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/hiddentruthshow

Ron Garan, former Air Force Colonel, NASA Astronaut, speaker & author of the critically acclaimed book, “The Orbital Perspective” and new book "Floating in Darkness,'' is a key believer that business enterprise can affect real long-term change. Hear how he activates his passion for protecting the planet by partnering with leading organizations around the world to help develop innovative ways that sustain life on earth for future generations. Also enjoy his wise words on the concept of a "Shared Humanity." Bio: ronaldjgaran@gmail.com Having enjoyed an illustrious career that has cemented Colonel Ron Garan's place as one of the world's most influential individuals, the iconic father of three is a decorated NASA astronaut, fighter pilot and test pilot, a humanitarian, and a social entrepreneur. As part of a select group of individuals who have been fortunate enough to see the world from space, Ron champions his “orbital perspective” message to improve life on earth. Ron is celebrated not just for his research in space but also for his humanitarian contribution to life on earth. Ron has spent 178 days in space and has traveled more than 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. He flew on both the US space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, where he accomplished four spacewalks. Ron also spent eighteen days at the bottom of the ocean during a research mission held in the world's only undersea research lab, Aquarius. Later, Ron was assigned to the US Agency for International Development, leading the Unity Node project. The project's task was to develop a universal, open-source platform, enabling humanitarian organizations to work toward mutual goals. In 2007, Ron co-founded Manna Energy Limited. Created with the goal of leveraging the carbon market to finance humanitarian projects, Manna is the first organization in the world to register a United Nations Clean Development Mechanism carbon credit program for water treatment. From representing Manna as one of ten global innovators in the field of water purification during the inaugural Launch Water Forum to his role as advisor to the social business movement, Ron continues to work toward a cleaner, safer, and more peaceful planet. Ron's breakthrough book, The Orbital Perspective : Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles, is published by Berrett-Koehler. Websites: https://www.rongaran.com/ Social Media Info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Astro_Ron Facebook (main page): https://www.facebook.com/RonGaran/ Facebook (book page): https://www.facebook.com/FloatingInDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro.rongaran/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongaran/ Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJoNIqXN7qcJ_0t70WgEN2Q

Ron Garan is a highly decorated astronaut who traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet over 178 days in space and completed 27 hours of extravehicular activity during four spacewalks. He flew on both the US Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He discusses the space race with Amy & JJ. Learn more about Ron: https://www.rongaran.com/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Ron Garan - Decorated astronaut, traveled more than 71 million miles over 178 days in space, completed 27 hours of extravehicular activity during four spacewalks; flew on both the US Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz spacecraft, combat fighter pilot and test pilot, decorated for combat valor in Operation Desert Storm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former NASA Astronaut & F-16 Fighter Pilot Col. Ron Garan joins the Hammer & Nigel Show to talk about his experience in space, Richard Branson's space trip, Elon Musk, and more. Col. Garan is a highly decorated astronaut who traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet over 178 days in space and completed 27 hours of extravehicular activity during four spacewalks. He flew on both the US Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz spacecraft. His new book is called Floating in Darkness: A Journey of Evolution and is available at www.floatingindarkness.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

he Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 68*Rosetta Stone eruption could help explain solar explosionsA dramatic, multi-staged eruption on the Sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the long-standing mystery of what causes the Sun's powerful and unpredictable explosions.*Juno's close encounter with GanymedeNASA's Juno spacecraft has undertaken a close encounter with the Jovian moon Ganymede.*Dream Chaser delayed till next yearSierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spaceplane which was slated to begin supply missions to the International Space Station in September this year – will now not begin operations until sometime in 2022.*OneWeb's planned mega constellation gets another 36 satellitesDespite the growing concerns of scientists a Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully placed another 36 British OneWeb internet broad band telecommunications satellites into low Earth orbit.*The Science ReportEarth to breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years.Study shows taking extra vitamin D won't help protect you from the COVID-19 corona virus.The first complete egg from Australia's smallest emu found on King Island.Google allowing other people to read your private e-mails.Alex on Tech checks out Apple's new IOS-15 operating system.Your support is needed...SpaceTime is an independently produced podcast (we are not funded by any government grants, big organisations or companies), and we're working towards becoming a completely listener supported show...meaning we can do away with the commercials and sponsors. We figure the time can be much better spent on researching and producing stories for you, rather than having to chase sponsors to help us pay the bills.That's where you come in....help us reach our first 1,000 subscribers...at that level the show becomes financially viable and bills can be paid without us breaking into a sweat every month. Every little bit helps...even if you could contribute just $1 per month. It all adds up.By signing up and becoming a supporter at the $5 or more level, you get immediate access to over 230 commercial-free, double, and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. You also receive all new episodes on a Monday rather than having to wait the week out. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at Patreon www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/ Details at https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com or www.bitesz.com Sponsor Details:This episode is brought to you with the support of NameCheap…cheap domain names is just the beginning of your own online presence. We use them and we love them. Get our special deal…just visit: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com/namecheap and help support the show. This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of NordVPN…The world's leading VPN provider. Making your online data unreadable to others. Check them out and get our big discount offer, plus help support SpaceTime… visit https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Karen Nyberg was selected as a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps in 2000. She made her first trip to space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2008, during the height of International Space Station (ISS) construction, delivering and installing the Japanese Laboratory. On her second spaceflight in 2013, Karen launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and lived and worked at ISS for 166 days.Prior to astronaut selection, Karen worked as an Environmental Control Systems Engineer at the Johnson Space Center where she led several designs and analysis initiatives in the areas of space vehicle and space suit thermal and environmental control.  Recently retired from NASA, Karen is currently pursuing interests in the areas of conservation and sustainability, fully appreciating the responsibility for innovation and technology to strive to meet those needs.Karen received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and has been honoured with the highest alumni award from each alma mater.Karen lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Astronaut Doug Hurley, their Dinosaur loving son, Jack, and two sweet dogs, Leo and Luke.Visit Karen's website at KarenNyberg.com. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

This week's "Dave Ward & Friends" is out of this world as Dave interviews NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and his wife, Amiko, who also works for the space agency. After spending a year on the International Space Station, Scott discusses life without gravity and what's harder to do in weightlessness. Plus, Scott talks about the physical effects after returning and what re-entry is like on a Russian Soyuz space capsule! And he even answers the question: do cell phones work on the ISS!

This week on Same Same, we get a cockpit view of outer space, from one of the first earthlings who self-funded a private flight up into orbit.Richard Garriott was the son of a NASA Astronaut, but a setback squashed his dreams of following in his father’s footsteps. After several decades, many different ventures and tens of millions of dollars, Richard manifested that dream by climbing aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and flying into the stars.  According to Richard, the perspective shift of being in space is so powerful that it changes everything about how you see our planet, the solutions to our problems, even how we see each other. What will change when more and more people experience that? The private space industry has placed an astronomical bet on this question. And the answer is coming soon.With expert commentary from Raphael Roettgen, space investor and founder of E2MC Ventures. Hosted by Máuhan M Zonoozy, Head of Innovation at Spotify, Partner-alum at BCG Digital Ventures, and NYC-based angel investor and entrepreneur.Visit our website:  https://www.samesamepodcast.com

Eight Hong Kong democracy activists set to return from China, A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off carrying 38 foreign satellites, Angela Merkel proposed keeping German lockdown restrictions in force for another 4 weeks & other news updates in your morning shot.

Space Shuttle, Russian Soyuz, ISS, & Future Boeing Starliner Astronaut discusses SpaceX Crew-1 Mission to the International Space Station & her previous & future space missions

In this episode we welcome NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to our Listeners Lounge. We open our discussion discussing Shane's earliest recollections about space flight. Shane entered the Army and became a helicopter pilot. Though he didn't think he would get into NASA, a path opened for him and he applied. He says it took a few times to make it past the application process. Since that time, he has flown multiple Space Shuttle missions. He also flew on a Russian Soyuz and spent months on the International Space Station. Shane Kimbrough is now in preparation to be the Commander of a SpaceX launch sometime next year. We end the interview with Shane's view on what the future might look like for space exploration. WATCHING/STREAMING: With the passing of Sean Connery, Walt re-watched, A Bridge Too Far, on Amazon Prime. Walt began watching The FBI FIles, also on Amazon Prime. His last two recommendations include The Mandalorian's latest episode and re-watching Star Trek: Enterprise. Alan recounted his re-watching of The Avengers Infinity War and End Game back-to-back. They are phenomenal movies and a great way to bring the MCU phase three toward a close. READING: The guys have been so busy, there was nothing to discuss here this week. LISTENING: Walt suggests any Dead Heads to checkout the SiriusXM show, "The Big Steve Show." He also reminds everyone if you missed on the Halloween Spooktacular, it is now available as a bonus show on The Wilder Ride podcast. Walt is also continuing to listen to In the Red Clay podcast. Alan gives a specific shout-out to The Worst of the Best podcast where he was recently a guest. The show covered the concept album, Operations: Mindcrime by Queensryche. Other podcast suggestions include 60MW Podcast, The Real Queens of Queens, The Bad Cop Bad Cop Show, Marine Corps Movie Minute, BK on the AIr Escape Pod, Geek to Me Radio, Rocky Minute, Radio Labyrinth and The Sly Cast. Make sure you have subscribed to The Wilder Ride on your pod-catcher of choice so you will not miss a single episode! If you have not already done so, please come join our Listener's Group on Facebook. Just visit our public page and click on the button to join the group. You can learn more about us by visiting our About Us page. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

I am thrilled to bring you this week’s episode as I am chatting with one of the only people on Earth to have lived in space AND at the bottom of the ocean! Today I am in conversation with the one and only Colonel Ron Garan - a decorated NASA astronaut, fighter pilot, test pilot, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur. Ron has a remarkable story as he has spent 178 days in space and has traveled more than 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. He flew on both the US space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, where he accomplished four spacewalks. Ron also spent eighteen days at the bottom of the ocean during a research mission held in the world’s only undersea research lab, Aquarius. Ron and I discuss how he made an ‘impossible dream’ become reality, the training it took to become an astronaut, why he is so passionate about improving life on Earth, and his upcoming book launch, Floating in Darkness. If you find this interview as fascinating as I did, then you’ll want to be among the first to get a hardcover copy of Ron’s new book Floating in Darkness, launching in May 2021. Floating in Darkness, the sequel to Ron’s critically acclaimed first book The Orbital Perspective, adds the perspective of inner space to take the reader on a profound journey of discovery. It addresses fundamental aspects of the evolution of society and humanity and serves as a call to action to help steer the trajectory of our society toward a future we would all want to be a part of.   As a 'thank you' to my listeners, simply use promo code "SPENCER" at checkout to get 10% off your pre-order copy of Ron's book here: https://www.rongaran.com/spencer

Terry Virts, one of only four astronauts in history to have piloted a Space Shuttle, flown a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed space walks, and commanded the ISS. He’s written HOW TO ASTRONAUT: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth, the book for everyone who wants to know what space travel is really like. Fun fact: … Continue reading "Weekly Space Hangout: September 23, 2020, Col. Terry Virts (USAF ret.) Tells Us “How to Astronaut”" The post Weekly Space Hangout: September 23, 2020, Col. Terry Virts (USAF ret.) Tells Us “How to Astronaut” appeared first on Universe Today.

Taken from NASA:Sunita L. Williams (Suni) was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. She is currently training for the first post-certification mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft – the second crewed flight for that vehicle – and her third long duration mission aboard the International Space Station.Williams and her crewmates are working closely with Boeing to develop their new spacecraft systems, which will provide roundtrip crew transportation services to the International Space Station and, along with SpaceX’s CrewDragon, return the ability to launch humans into space from United States soil.Personal Data:Born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio to Dr. Deepak and Bonnie Pandya.  Considers Needham, Massachusetts to be her hometown. Suni and her husband Michael enjoy hanging out with their dogs, working out, working on houses, working on cars, working on airplanes, hiking and camping.Education:Needham High School, Needham, Massachusetts, 1983. Bachelor of Science in Physical Science, U.S. Naval Academy, 1987. Master of Science in Engineering Management, Florida Institute of Technology, 1995.Experience:Williams received her commission as an Ensign in the United States Navy from the United States Naval Academy in May 1987. After a six-month temporary assignment at the Naval Coastal System Command, she received her designation as a Basic Diving Officer and then reported to Naval Aviation Training Command. She was designated a Naval Aviator in July 1989. She then reported to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 3 for initial H46, Seaknight, training. Upon completion of this training, she was assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 8 in Norfolk, Virginia, and made overseas deployments to the Mediterranean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in support of Desert Shield and Operation Provide Comfort. In September 1992, she was the Officer-in-Charge of an H-46 detachment sent to Miami, Florida for Hurricane Andrew Relief Operations onboard USS Sylvania. Williams was selected for United States Naval Test Pilot School and began the course in January 1993. After graduation in December 1993, she was assigned to the Rotary Wing Aircraft Test Directorate as an H-46 Project Officer, and V-22 Chase Pilot in the T-2. While there, she was also assigned as the squadron Safety Officer and flew test flights in the SH-60B/F, UH-1, AH‑1W, SH-2, VH-3, H-46, CH-53 and the H-57. In December 1995, she went back to the Naval Test Pilot School as an Instructor in the Rotary Wing Department and the school’s Safety Officer where she flew the UH-60, OH-6 and the OH-58. From there, she was assigned to the USS Saipan (LHA-2), Norfolk, Virginia, as the Aircraft Handler and the Assistant Air Boss. Williams was deployed onboard USS Saipan when she was selected for the astronaut program. She has logged more than 3000 flight hours in over 30 different aircraft.NASA Experience:Selected as an astronaut by NASA in June 1998, she reported for training in August 1998.  Astronaut Candidate Training included orientation briefings and tours, numerous scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training and ground school to prepare for T-38 flight training, as well as learning water and wilderness survival techniques.  Following a period of training and evaluation, Williams worked in Moscow with the Russian Space Agency on the Russian contribution to the space station and with the first Expedition Crew.  Following the return of Expedition 1, Williams worked within the Robotics branch on the station’s Robotic Arm and the follow-on Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator.  As a NEEMO2 crew member, she lived underwater in the Aquarius habitat for 9 days.  After her first flight, she served as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office. She then supported a long-duration mission as Flight Engineer for Expedition 32 and International Space Station Commander for Expedition 33. Williams has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions; she ranks second on the all-time U.S. endurance list for females. With 50 hours and 40 minutes, she is second on the list of total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut.Spaceflight Experience:Expedition 14/15 (December 9, 2006 to June 22, 2007).  Williams launched with the crew of STS-116 on December 9, 2006, docking with the International Space Station on December 11, 2006.  As a member of the Expedition 14 crew, Williams served as Flight Engineer.  While onboard, she established a world record for females with four spacewalks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes.   (Astronaut Peggy Whitson subsequently broke the record in 2008 with a total of five spacewalks).  Williams concluded her tour of duty as a member of the Expedition 15 crew returning to Earth with the STS-117 crew to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California on June 22, 2007.Expedition 32/33 (July 14 to November 18, 2012). Williams launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, on July 14, 2012. They were welcomed on the International Space Station on July 17, 2012, by NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts, Expedition 32 commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin. Williams spent four months conducting research and exploration aboard the orbiting laboratory. She landed in Kazakhstan on November 18, 2012, after spending 127 days in space. During their Expedition, Williams and Hoshide performed three spacewalks to replace a component that relays power from the space station's solar arrays to its systems, and repair an ammonia leak on a station radiator. With 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again held the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut (has since been overtaken by Peggy Whitson with 10 spacewalks). In addition, Williams, who has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions, now ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. endurance list, and second all-time for a female astronaut.She is currently training for the first post-certification mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft – the second crewed flight for that vehicle – and her third long duration mission aboard the International Space Station.Awards/Honors:Awarded DSSM (2), Legion of Merit, Awarded Navy Commendation Medal (2), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and various other service awards.Organizations:Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Society of Flight TestEngineers, American Helicopter Association. Follow Suni and her missions on twitter @astro_williams 

Eta lets Ale know that there is a rescue vehicle, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, docked at the station... but it's in pretty bad shape. Learn more about Eta's past and how they plan to fix the Soyuz so she can come home in this week's episodes. Want to check out the print or ebook version of The Station? Click here Visit my website: www.rebeccajkelly.com Follow me on social media: Rebecca J. Kelly - Author on Facebook RebeccaJKellyAuthor on Instagram

Astronaut Bill McArthur graduated from West Point in 1973, became a test pilot, joined NASA as a flight test engineer, flew on Space Shuttles Columbia, Atlantis, and Discovery, as well as the Russian Soyuz space craft, and has been on both the Russian Space Station Mir and the International Space Station. COL McArthur explains how astronauts can develop a different understanding of Earth and where they, as humans, fit into the grand scheme of things. Space philosopher and author Frank White called this ‘The Overview Effect’. He also points out that what makes America Great is not necessarily what the country can be, but more what its potential can become.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, discuss what truly makes America great. Teri's family come together every 4th of July for their very large family celebration. Denise describes how all of America’s different parts must come together to make America great, just as with all the very different ingredients that are needed in a recipe to make a great meal.Tomi Lahren returns to our “What Makes America Great!” annual program and says what makes our Nation great is our American People themselves! “Average Americans” are definitely not average at all. Americans are willing to work very hard, from sun up to sun down. Other countries may have some of this, but not the way America does!Stephen Parr believes what makes America great is the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. It is THE fundamental idea of what our Nation is all about. The fundamental purpose of government is to insure this original ideal for We The People.Louis Avallone believes as Americans go about pursuing what will make them happy, they are making America great. Building a better “you” is critical to building a better America. You cannot build up by tearing down. We have a Republic, “if we can keep it”. The question is “Is it still dawn in America?”

Astronaut Bill McArthur graduated from West Point in 1973, became a test pilot, joined NASA as a flight test engineer, flew on Space Shuttles Columbia, Atlantis, and Discovery, as well as the Russian Soyuz space craft, and has been on both the Russian Space Station Mir and the International Space Station. COL McArthur explains how astronauts can develop a different understanding of Earth and where they, as humans, fit into the grand scheme of things. Space philosopher and author Frank White called this ‘The Overview Effect’. He also points out that what makes America Great is not necessarily what the country can be, but more what its potential can become.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, discuss what truly makes America great. Teri's family come together every 4th of July for their very large family celebration. Denise describes how all of America’s different parts must come together to make America great, just as with all the very different ingredients that are needed in a recipe to make a great meal.Tomi Lahren returns to our “What Makes America Great!” annual program and says what makes our Nation great is our American People themselves! “Average Americans” are definitely not average at all. Americans are willing to work very hard, from sun up to sun down. Other countries may have some of this, but not the way America does!Stephen Parr believes what makes America great is the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. It is THE fundamental idea of what our Nation is all about. The fundamental purpose of government is to insure this original ideal for We The People.Louis Avallone believes as Americans go about pursuing what will make them happy, they are making America great. Building a better “you” is critical to building a better America. You cannot build up by tearing down. We have a Republic, “if we can keep it”. The question is “Is it still dawn in America?”

Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than we thought Link: https://www.space.com/titan-drifting-from-saturn-faster-than-predicted.html Saturn's moon Titan is zooming away from its ringed parent 100 times faster than scientists expected. According to a new study, Saturn's largest moon was "born" fairly close to the planet, but over the course of 4.5 billion years, it has migrated out to where it orbits currently, approximately 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) away from the planet. The Saturnian moon's orbit is now expanding away from Saturn at a rate 100 times faster than scientists had previously predicted. Titan tugs on Saturn in a similar way, but the friction inside of Saturn is thought to be weaker than here on Earth because of the planet's gaseous composition (compared to Earth's rocky nature). Previous research has suggested that the moon should be moving away from Saturn at just 0.04 inches (0.1 cm) per year. But this new work suggests that Titan is actually moving away from its planet at a whopping 4.3 inches (11 cm) every year. According to this theory, Titan gravitationally "squeezes" Saturn in a way that makes the planet oscillate, and the energy from these oscillations would cause the moon to migrate faster than previously expected. Astronomers Discover Star And Planet Strikingly Similar to The Sun And Earth Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-discovered-a-star-and-planet-that-are-strikingly-similar-to-the-sun-and-earth Scientists have found a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are more similar to the Earth and our Sun than any other known planet-star pair. The planet – which is still considered a planet candidate until further confirmation – is the right distance from its star to allow for the presence of liquid surface water. That means it could potentially host life. For now, the planet candidate is known as KOI-456.04. If its existence is confirmed by other telescopes, the exoplanet would join a group of about 4,000 known planets outside our Solar System. Other research had previously found that the star this Earth-like planet candidate orbits, called Kepler-160, has two planets circling it. But the new study revealed two additional ones. The system is just over 3,000 light-years away from our Solar System. Russia's space leader seems pretty bitter about SpaceX's success “Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots.” Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/russias-space-leader-seems-pretty-bitter-about-spacexs-success/ In the 10 days since SpaceX launched humans into orbit—returning to NASA the capability to get its own astronauts into space—Russian officials have offered a mixed reaction. However, a clear trend seems to be emerging—a minimization of SpaceX's achievement and pointing to Russia's own bright future in space. During a post-launch news conference on May 30, SpaceX founder Elon Musk cheekily said, "The trampoline is working." This was a dig at the head of the Russian Space Corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, a former Russian defense official who was sanctioned in 2014 as part of the US response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. At the time, when the US relied on the Russian Soyuz vehicle to get into space, Rogozin suggested on Twitter that NASA could use a trampoline to get into space if it didn't like working with Russia. After Musk's most recent comments, Rogozin initially went along with the joke, saying he was amused by it: "Please convey my sincere greetings to @elonmusk (I loved his joke) and @SpaceX team. Looking forward to further cooperation!" "Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots from Boeing passing them with the beginning of the flight tests," Rogozin said. "This war is theirs, but not ours." Interestingly, he also admits that the Russians price gouged NASA for access to space. Although Rogozin says Roscosmos earned "honest" money for the Soyuz spaceflights, he takes issue with the notion the Crew Dragon is cheaper than a Soyuz. (According to NASA, the price per seat for Crew Dragon is $55 million. During its last round of negotiations, the space agency paid more than $90 million to Russia for a Soyuz seat). Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than we thought Link: https://www.space.com/titan-drifting-from-saturn-faster-than-predicted.html Saturn's moon Titan is zooming away from its ringed parent 100 times faster than scientists expected. According to a new study, Saturn's largest moon was "born" fairly close to the planet, but over the course of 4.5 billion years, it has migrated out to where it orbits currently, approximately 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) away from the planet. The Saturnian moon's orbit is now expanding away from Saturn at a rate 100 times faster than scientists had previously predicted. Titan tugs on Saturn in a similar way, but the friction inside of Saturn is thought to be weaker than here on Earth because of the planet's gaseous composition (compared to Earth's rocky nature). Previous research has suggested that the moon should be moving away from Saturn at just 0.04 inches (0.1 cm) per year. But this new work suggests that Titan is actually moving away from its planet at a whopping 4.3 inches (11 cm) every year. According to this theory, Titan gravitationally "squeezes" Saturn in a way that makes the planet oscillate, and the energy from these oscillations would cause the moon to migrate faster than previously expected. Astronomers Discover Star And Planet Strikingly Similar to The Sun And Earth Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-discovered-a-star-and-planet-that-are-strikingly-similar-to-the-sun-and-earth Scientists have found a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are more similar to the Earth and our Sun than any other known planet-star pair. The planet – which is still considered a planet candidate until further confirmation – is the right distance from its star to allow for the presence of liquid surface water. That means it could potentially host life. For now, the planet candidate is known as KOI-456.04. If its existence is confirmed by other telescopes, the exoplanet would join a group of about 4,000 known planets outside our Solar System. Other research had previously found that the star this Earth-like planet candidate orbits, called Kepler-160, has two planets circling it. But the new study revealed two additional ones. The system is just over 3,000 light-years away from our Solar System. Russia's space leader seems pretty bitter about SpaceX's success “Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots.” Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/russias-space-leader-seems-pretty-bitter-about-spacexs-success/ In the 10 days since SpaceX launched humans into orbit—returning to NASA the capability to get its own astronauts into space—Russian officials have offered a mixed reaction. However, a clear trend seems to be emerging—a minimization of SpaceX's achievement and pointing to Russia's own bright future in space. During a post-launch news conference on May 30, SpaceX founder Elon Musk cheekily said, "The trampoline is working." This was a dig at the head of the Russian Space Corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, a former Russian defense official who was sanctioned in 2014 as part of the US response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. At the time, when the US relied on the Russian Soyuz vehicle to get into space, Rogozin suggested on Twitter that NASA could use a trampoline to get into space if it didn't like working with Russia. After Musk's most recent comments, Rogozin initially went along with the joke, saying he was amused by it: "Please convey my sincere greetings to @elonmusk (I loved his joke) and @SpaceX team. Looking forward to further cooperation!" "Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots from Boeing passing them with the beginning of the flight tests," Rogozin said. "This war is theirs, but not ours." Interestingly, he also admits that the Russians price gouged NASA for access to space. Although Rogozin says Roscosmos earned "honest" money for the Soyuz spaceflights, he takes issue with the notion the Crew Dragon is cheaper than a Soyuz. (According to NASA, the price per seat for Crew Dragon is $55 million. During its last round of negotiations, the space agency paid more than $90 million to Russia for a Soyuz seat). Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

NASA Astronaut Dr Mike Barratt talks to WEM Founder Mark Hannaford about the launch of the first US Astronauts in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. "It's tremendously exciting": NASA astronauts counting down to historic launch aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon" Opening a new chapter in human spaceflight, two veteran space shuttle fliers will blaze a fresh trail to orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday, weather permitting — the first launch of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil since the space shuttle's final flight nearly nine years ago. The historic mission, the first orbital flight of a new piloted spacecraft in 39 years, is the culmination of a six-year, multibillion-dollar NASA drive to end the agency's sole reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for transportation to and from the space station. Dr Mike Barratt WEM Faculty and Medical Lead for the launch for the NASA talks about how the space community are overcoming the challenges of bringing in a new era of human spaceflight exploration in the middle of a global pandemic. Watch > WEM Academy  

The Astronomy and Space Science News PodcastStream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetimemobile friendly)SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 38*Stars dancing around a monster black hole prove Einstein was right againAstronomers have confirmed that stars orbit a supermassive black hole exactly as predicted by the great Professor Albert Einstein in his general Theory of Relativity – which explains gravity.https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/615926606944501760 https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/615926759107575809 https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/615926963556777984 https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/615927114035806208 https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/615927286898851840 *Interstellar comet 21/Borisov originated from a red dwarfNew observations suggest interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov probably originated in a star system around a red dwarf.https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/616009326354628608 *May 27 named as date for America’s return to launching people into spaceNasa has confirmed Americans will resume flying into space from American soil on May 27. The United States has been relying on Russian Soyuz flight to get people into space ever since the early retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet with the landing of Atlantis on STS 135 way back on July 21st 2011. *Iran launches Military Spy SatelliteTensions between the west and Iran are continuing to escalate with the Islamic republic undertaking another missile test in violation of its United Nations anti-nuclear agreements. *The Science ReportPeople infected with COVID-19 may be most contagious a day or two before they start to feel ill.Significant improvements for COVID-19 patients given antibody rich plasma.A link found between toddlers watching TV at 12 months and symptoms of autism.Concentrations of atmospheric methane has reached record levels.Ten scientific explanations for paranormal activity. Sponsor Link:This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of Express VPN...rated No.1 by TechRadar. To take up our special offer, visit www.tryexpressvpn.com/space and help support the show. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Get immediate access to over 180 commercial-free, double episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or if you’re not a fan of Patreon, go to Supercast -

Last week unemployment claims totaled 6.6 million, bringing the total number of applications to nearly 17 million since the pandemic has shut down huge parts of the U.S. economy. And as a result of so many applying for unemployment, people are having a tough time getting through and completing the process. Dana Mattioli, reporter at the WSJ, joins us for how tough the job market is right now. Next, one thing to keep an eye out while we social distance and stay at home, Americans are doubling down on some of their worst habits in order to cope with mental and emotional stress of dealing with coronavirus. Alcohol sales and consumption are up, marijuana sales are up, and people are eating more and exercising less. Sara Fischer, reporter for Axios, joins us for how virus vices are taking a toll on people. Finally, some space news! On Thursday a Russian Soyuz rocket carried three astronauts to the International Space Station. It also marked the end of NASA's dependence on Russian rockets for human spaceflight. NASA was buying seats on Soyuz capsules for $86 million a pop, but will now be getting rides from SpaceX and Boeing. Daniel Oberhaus, writer at Wired, joins us for more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Andy and Dave discuss the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s efforts to tackle deep fakes through DARPA’s Media Forensics program, as well as the announcement that the JAIC’s biggest project for FY20 will include “AI for maneuver and fires.” Intel reveals its first AI chips, on the Nervana Neural Network Processor line, with one to train AI systems and another to handle inference. Cerebras Systems announces the world’s largest chip, with 1.2 trillion transistors and 400,000 cores. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station; it had Roscosmos’s Skybot F-850 humanoid robot aboard. Researchers at Hong Kong University of S&T demonstrate an all-optical neural network for deep learning. Researchers at MIT and Tubingen identify four types of neuronal cells based on their electrical spiking activity. And a larger team of researchers, primarily based in China, unveil the Tianjic chip, as a hybrid that combines computer science (with a binary focus) with neuroscience (with a neural burst and spike focus) on one chip. In the book of the week, K. Eric Drexler of Oxford publishes a large report on Reframing Superintelligence. An article from Melanie Mitchel in Popular Computing in 1985 seems hardly out of place in 2019 with its look at what people were predicting for the future. A report from PAX surveys the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons. The Intelligence Community Studies Board releases the proceedings of a workshop on Robust Machine Learning Algorithms and Systems for Detection and Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks and Anomalies. Jonathan Clifford pens a piece in War on the Rocks on how “AI will change war, but not in the way you think.” In a video, Elon Musk and Jack Ma discuss AI at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. And the Australian Defence College will host a seminar on Science Fiction and the Future of War on 3 October 2019. Click here to visit our website and explore the links mentioned in the episode.   

NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Refutes Space Crime Claim by Spouse as Divorce Details Emerge Link: https://www.space.com/astronaut-anne-mcclain-refutes-space-crime-claim.html NASA astronaut Anne McClain on Saturday (Aug. 24) refuted claims that she inappropriately accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse after details of their divorce were made public in the New York Times this week. While in the middle of their separation process, McClain's spouse Summer Worden has claimed that McClain accessed her bank account from a NASA-affiliated computer network, according to a report from the New York Times on Friday (Aug. 23). Worden has accused McClain of identity theft and claimed the astronaut accessed the account from aboard the International Space Station during a recent space mission, and that the agency's Office of the Inspector General is looking into the matter. Today, McClain said in a Twitter statement that there's "unequivocally no truth to these claims." "We've been going through a painful, personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media," McClain continued. "I appreciate the outpouring of support and will reserve comment until after the investigation. I have total confidence in the IG [Inspector General] process." Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Carrying Humanoid Robot Aborts Docking at Space Station Link: https://www.space.com/soyuz-aborts-space-station-docking-ms-14.html An uncrewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to abort an attempted docking at the International Space Station early Saturday (Aug. 24) due to rendezvous system malfunction. The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft, which is carrying supplies and a humanoid robot called Skybot F-850, was on its final approach to the space station when its automated docking system failed to lock on to its intended docking port: a space-facing module called Poisk. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, the station's commander, triggered an abort command for the Soyuz at 1:36 a.m. EDT (0536 GMT) after multiple attempts to make the rendezvous with primary and backup systems failed. "At no point was the crew in any danger," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said of the station's six-person Expedition 60 crew during live commentary. The Soyuz is now trailing the space station at a safe distance away in a so-called "race track orbit" that can allow additional docking attempts every 24 hours, Navias said. The next attempt will occur no earlier than overnight Sunday or early Monday (Aug. 25-26). Show Stuff UBR Alien Hunter : Chapter One Beta - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UBR.UBRRobotron The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 Manny Moonraker: https://www.facebook.com/MannyMoonraker/ UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Refutes Space Crime Claim by Spouse as Divorce Details Emerge Link: https://www.space.com/astronaut-anne-mcclain-refutes-space-crime-claim.html NASA astronaut Anne McClain on Saturday (Aug. 24) refuted claims that she inappropriately accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse after details of their divorce were made public in the New York Times this week. While in the middle of their separation process, McClain's spouse Summer Worden has claimed that McClain accessed her bank account from a NASA-affiliated computer network, according to a report from the New York Times on Friday (Aug. 23). Worden has accused McClain of identity theft and claimed the astronaut accessed the account from aboard the International Space Station during a recent space mission, and that the agency's Office of the Inspector General is looking into the matter. Today, McClain said in a Twitter statement that there's "unequivocally no truth to these claims." "We've been going through a painful, personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media," McClain continued. "I appreciate the outpouring of support and will reserve comment until after the investigation. I have total confidence in the IG [Inspector General] process." Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Carrying Humanoid Robot Aborts Docking at Space Station Link: https://www.space.com/soyuz-aborts-space-station-docking-ms-14.html An uncrewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to abort an attempted docking at the International Space Station early Saturday (Aug. 24) due to rendezvous system malfunction. The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft, which is carrying supplies and a humanoid robot called Skybot F-850, was on its final approach to the space station when its automated docking system failed to lock on to its intended docking port: a space-facing module called Poisk. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, the station's commander, triggered an abort command for the Soyuz at 1:36 a.m. EDT (0536 GMT) after multiple attempts to make the rendezvous with primary and backup systems failed. "At no point was the crew in any danger," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said of the station's six-person Expedition 60 crew during live commentary. The Soyuz is now trailing the space station at a safe distance away in a so-called "race track orbit" that can allow additional docking attempts every 24 hours, Navias said. The next attempt will occur no earlier than overnight Sunday or early Monday (Aug. 25-26). Show Stuff UBR Alien Hunter : Chapter One Beta - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UBR.UBRRobotron The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 Manny Moonraker: https://www.facebook.com/MannyMoonraker/ UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Throughout human history, mapping has been the key to the opening of new frontiers. Mapping of previously uncharted regions has enabled economic expansion and the development of new markets, science, and defense. For similar reasons, mapping the locations and trajectories of the millions of uncharted asteroids in our solar system is the key to opening the space frontier. This four-dimensional space map will be crucial to the economic development of space, the protection of the Earth from asteroid impacts, and to understanding the origin and evolution of Earth. Join [Dr. Ed Lu](https://b612foundation.org/members/ed-lu/), former NASA astronaut, co-founder of [B612 Foundation](https://b612foundation.org/) and the current Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute as he makes the case for the need to chart the high frontier of space and learn how you can help. Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the [Asteroid Institute](https://b612foundation.org/), served as a NASA Astronaut for twelve years. He flew aboard the Space Shuttle twice, flew on the Russian Soyuz to the International Space Station and has logged over 206 days in space. Dr. Lu has been an active research scientist working in the fields of solar physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, cosmology, and planetary science. He held positions at the High Altitude Observatory, the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and the Institute for Astronomy. At Google, he led the Advanced Projects group which built imaging and data gathering systems for Google Earth and Maps, Google StreetView, and Google Books. He is a co-founder of B612 Foundation, the only organization in the world dedicated to finding, mapping and deflecting asteroids.

Throughout human history, mapping has been the key to the opening of new frontiers. Mapping of previously uncharted regions has enabled economic expansion and the development of new markets, science, and defense. For similar reasons, mapping the locations and trajectories of the millions of uncharted asteroids in our solar system is the key to opening the space frontier. This four-dimensional space map will be crucial to the economic development of space, the protection of the Earth from asteroid impacts, and to understanding the origin and evolution of Earth. Join Dr. Ed Lu, former NASA astronaut, co-founder of B612 Foundation and the current Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute as he makes the case for the need to chart the high frontier of space and learn how you can help. Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, served as a NASA Astronaut for twelve years. He flew aboard the Space Shuttle twice, flew on the Russian Soyuz to the International Space Station and has logged over 206 days in space. Dr. Lu has been an active research scientist working in the fields of solar physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, cosmology, and planetary science. He held positions at the High Altitude Observatory, the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and the Institute for Astronomy. At Google, he led the Advanced Projects group which built imaging and data gathering systems for Google Earth and Maps, Google StreetView, and Google Books. He is a co-founder of B612 Foundation, the only organization in the world dedicated to finding, mapping and deflecting asteroids.

Join Dave Nassaney as he co-hosts with Neil Haley and interviews Astronaut, Colonel Terry Virts on the Neil Haley Show. Dynamic speaker with amazing tales and stunning visuals from his time in spaceSeasoned fighter pilot and test pilot of 40 different types of aircraft. Col. US Air Force (Ret.)Over 200 Days in space at the International Space Station (ISS)Virts had one of the most demanding jobs in the world. One of only 4 astronauts ever to pilot the NASA space shuttle, fly on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Commander of the International Space Station and perform space walksFluent in Russian and FrenchAn avid and artistic photographer with more photos than any other astronaut from spaceOne of the first feature film videographer astronauts in space for the IMAX Film “A Beautiful Planet”Of NASA Astronauts he has the 3rd most days continuously in space

Today, on The Neil Haley Show's Caregive Dave Celebrity Segement, The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Astronaut,  Colonel Terry Virts  Dynamic speaker with amazing tales and stunning visuals from his time in spaceSeasoned fighter pilot and test pilot of 40 different types of aircraft. Col. US Air Force (Ret.)Over 200 Days in space at the International Space Station (ISS)Virts had one of the most demanding jobs in the world. One of only 4 astronauts ever to pilot the NASA space shuttle, fly on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Commander of the International Space Station and perform space walksFluent in Russian and FrenchAn avid and artistic photographer with more photos than any other astronaut from spaceOne of the first feature film videographer astronauts in space for the IMAX Film “A Beautiful Planet”Of NASA Astronauts he has the 3rd most days continuously in space

Happy New Year!! This week Kyle and I review some predictions from the asparagus psychic, talk about up coming 2019 astronomical events and then end the show with talking about the mysterious hole in the Russian Soyuz craft attached to the ISS.    Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/world/five-eclipses-in-2019-and-super-blood-wolf-moon-trnd/index.html?no-st=1546006127 https://www.popsci.com/iss-hole-russia-drill-inside?src=SOC&dom=fb&fbclid=IwAR23g9Hi3tPWZKYMUExLYtL9v3hIWDIj4UGNtka5j2iLK_IzOdxXh869zVY https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/fortune-teller-who-uses-asparagus-13796098    

The Discussion: Jeni talking exoplanets and aliens at Cardiff Museum and we take a no spoiler look at the Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man. The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have: Commercial spaceflight update New Zealand’s Rocket Lab build a new launch site in the US The winners & losers in USAF’s launcher funding competition China’s Long March 5 rocket failure induces delays The death of the Kepler space telescope Russian Soyuz failures risk human access to space Hubble dead? Don’t believe the hype OSIRIS-Rex begins its final manoeuvres to land on an asteroid Main news story: Europe and Japan’s Bepicolumbo mission to Mercury. The Interview: Jeni interviews Bethan James, astronomer & astrophysicist currently working as an ESA/AURA Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) on the Hubble instrument team. Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look USAF’s rocket funding decision: Why wasn’t SpaceX funded in the latest US military space funding round while Blue Origin was? Mark De Vrij, UK.

Alex is joined by Zac Trolley, engineer, space evangelist, futurist and professional speaker to talk about the recent failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket launch and how the incident could have global ramifications.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make a dramatic landing after their ride to space, a Russian Soyuz rocket, failed minutes after takeoff. The incident caused the crew to initiate emergency abort procedures, landing a few hundred miles away from the launch site. Both Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin are safe. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 am ET and was scheduled to dock at the ISS six hours later.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report arguing that we only have 12 years to slow down the disastrous effects of climate change. Some climate scientists, on the other hand, say that the report was too cautious. Speaking of climate change, Hurricane Michael exploded from a tropical storm to a devastating Category 4 hurricane in a mere 72 hours.  Hurricane Michael was the fourth Category 4 hurricane to hit the United States in the past 16 months. It was the first Cat 4 to ever hit the Florida panhandle. Nearly a dozen people were killed, but that number is expected to rise.  Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats say “thank you, sir, may I have another” as they reach a deal with Mitch McConnell to pack the courts with 15 more judges. What do the Democrats get out of the deal? They get to maintain a sense of decorum as the GOP burns down the 20th Century. Independent Saudi journalist, and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials now say they have video evidence that Khashoggi was captured, tortured and killed. Trump says, “he’s not a U.S. citizen, right?” Let the arms deal go through. Election interference from GOP - more attempts to deny people the right to vote. North Dakota moves to end the right to vote for Native Americans and college students in the state. Georgia puts 53,000 voter registrations on hold. Nearly 70% of the holds were put on black Georgians. The GOP candidate for Governor, Brian Kemp, is currently Georgia’s Secretary of State. Which means he’s the guy charged with ensuring fair elections. What will that mean for Stacy Abrams campaign to become the first black Governor of the state and first black woman Governor in the country? Students on the primarily black Prairie View A&M University find that they may no longer be able to vote on campus because of misinformation from election officials. Facebook announces that it is purging 559 pages and 251 accounts run by Americans in order to spread disinformation. Learning from Russia’s disinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election. Susan Collins gave the most self-serving speech in support of Kavanaugh. And in a commentary on the sad state of our public life, Taylor Swift’s Instagram post in favor of Democrats results in 65,000 voter registrations in a single 24 hour period. Scott Wagner sent out a fundraising email this week claiming that he tapped his fortune dry by dropping 10 million dollars into his campaign.  He also blamed the Republican establishment for not helping him and compared his failing campaign to a “public lynching.” As is things cannot get crazier, Scott Wagner is bringing Diamond and Silk to Philadelphia.   New Koch Brother funded organization, Commonwealth Leaders Fund, dropped $100,000 into Jeremy Shaffer’s Senate campaign. Marty Nothstein sues the Allentown Morning Call over their reporting of his sexual harassment allegations earlier this year. DeSales University Poll has Susan Wild up by 19 points. And, a pro-Trump PAC is going to dump $700,000 into the PA 10 to help save Scott Perry. In today’s Last Call, Voyager 2 may soon enter interstellar space - wild space - as it approaches the fringe of the heliosphere. Russian Soyuz rocket program grounded after an emergency abort last week. No one was killed, but now NASA has no way of getting people to and from the ISS. Gritty seizes the means of production and becomes the Antifa superhero we’ve all been looking for.  Memes of the new Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot have gotten so out of hand, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed denouncing the leftist icon.  Free Will Brewing has got some new releases: 10.13.18  Sir Lamington – Imperial Milk Stout w/Coconut, Chocolate, & Milk Sugar. Last week, Free Will dropped Coffee Cherry Cream Pie – Cream Ale w/coffee, cherry, vanilla & milk sugar – 6.4%. Coming up on Sunday, Oct 21st from 12-5 it will be Oktoberfest at Free Will. They will have five traditional German-style beers on tap and traditional German food from the awesome folks at The Bread Box and Bakery. A little Xtra: Faithless - God is a DJ

Alexa is getting to know us all better; astronauts had to make emergency landing after Russian Soyuz rocket failed during launch; Congress has questions about Google+.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that two spacecraft will be launched from the United States for the first time in seven years. In 2011, NASA retired its space shuttles, citing costs and aging spacecraft as the main reasons. Since then, American astronauts have been sent to space on board the Russian Soyuz /SAW-yooz/ spacecraft, where an individual seat costs over $80 million. The two spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon, were developed by private companies Boeing and SpaceX, respectively. In 2012, Crew Dragon became the first spacecraft made by a private organization to bring cargo to the International Space Station. SpaceX upgraded it, so it now includes an advanced emergency escape system that can carry astronauts to safety. The Boeing Starliner, on the other hand, has similarities with the famous Apollo spacecraft but with enhanced features. It can be docked autonomously, requiring less training for astronauts. The first nine astronauts to fly on the spacecraft have been named, and they consist of both seasoned astronauts and novices. This launch is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which involved American aerospace companies in creating spacecraft and launch systems. Boeing and SpaceX won the contract back in 2014, and both split the $6.8 billion grant. Both Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon will be launched in 2019 from Florida, not from Kazakhstan where the Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches. NASA expressed excitement, saying that the launch will be historic because it involves commercial partners. This milestone can also end America's dependency on Russia for spaceflight.

*New Australian developed rocket passes major test Gilmour Space Technologies has carried out a successful test of its new G-70 rocket engine. The orbital-class single-port hybrid rocket engine. rocket engine successfully achieved 70 kilonewtons or 15,700 pounds-force of thrust during its test at a facility at Westmar in Queensland. *Chinese space station falling back to Earth out of control A report by the European Space Agency says China’s Tiangong 1 space station is now expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on an uncontrolled decent sometime between March 30 to April 6. ESA says the space station’s re-entry could take place anywhere between 43 degrees north and 43 south latitude. That places most of the world’s major population centres in its path including Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, New York, Chicago, LA, Hong Kong, Athens, and Rome. *Studying Steve Scientists are getting to know Steve. But it’s not what you think --Steve is a strange shimmering ribbon of purple light in the auroral night sky. *Japan launches new spy satellite In the wake of growing tensions with North Korea Japan has launched a new spy satellite to keep an eye on Pyongyang’s activities. The new IGS Optical 6 Earth Observation reconnaissance satellite was blasted into orbit aboard a JAXA H-2A rocket from the Tanegashima Space Centre south of Tokyo. *Soyuz launches four new satellites A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into space from the European Space Agency’s Kourou space port in French Guiana delivering four new telecommunications satellites into orbit. You tube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSfVfb767o  *SpaceX - PAZ mission night launch A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted into orbit carrying a new Spanish military Earth observation satellite. You tube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYq98o5YS-8 *The Science Report Over 16 hundred Australian children are hospitalised due to self-harm every year. The most comprehensive study ever into the origins of people of Vanuatu. Injuries to whales by ship collisions far higher than reported. Major up-grade for the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network. Alex on tech warns of security issue with Windows Cortana. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, Spreaker, Spotify, Deezer etc Would you prefer to have access to the special commercial free version of SpaceTime? Help support the show, subscribe at Patreon....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Help support SpaceTime : The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Plus: As a part of the SpaceTime family, you can get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Growing up in Mississippi, Lance Bass wanted go to school for space engineering and become an astronaut before he rose to fame in NSYNC. A quick Google search will show you that the former boy band member has done many, many things beyond music -- including acting, TV hosting, cooking, documentaries and more. In fact, Lance moved to Russia in 2002 after NSYNC disbanded and went through several months of rigorous training to win a seat on a Russian Soyuz space capsule. He was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program. Funding ultimately fell through and he didn't get to go to the International Space Station, but his dreams of traveling to space remain. Lance joined me on Olympic & Bundy to chat about topics like marriage and starting a family, his pop star days, and of course, space travel! Share this story: http://bit.ly/2Etm9k1 Thank you to Lance Bass. Subscribe to Olympic & Bundy on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Connect on social: OlympicAndBundy.com Facebook.com/OlympicAndBundy Instagram.com/OlympicAndBundy Twitter.com/OlympicAndBundy

*First evidence of Quantum fluctuations in deep space Evidence of a strange quantum effect first predicted in the 1930 may have been detected by astronomers studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetised neutron star The polarisation of the observed light suggests that the empty space around the neutron star is subject to a quantum effect known as vacuum birefringence. *Out of control Chinese space station about to crash back to Earth China has confirmed that its Tiangong-1 orbiting space lab is out of control and likely to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at any moment. Beijing says the eight and a half tone orbiting outpost is expected to re-enter the atmosphere between now and April next year -- depending on orbital decay rates. *Back to the Moon US Vice President Mike Pence has called on NASA to return humans to the Moon. The call comes in the wake of Russia’s announcement that it will join the United States in building the new Deep Space Gateway space station which will be positioned in near lunar space. *How a cold frozen Mars could have carved the planet’s warm wet features Scientists say periodic melting of ice sheets on a cold early Mars would have created enough water to carve the ancient valleys and lakebeds seen on the surface of the red planet today. Water-carved valleys and lakebeds leave little doubt that water once flowed on the surface. *The first detailed spectra of antimatter hydrogen Scientists with the ALPHA Collaboration have successfully obtained the first detailed spectrum of the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen. The findings reported in the journal Nature show that the spectral lines of antihydrogen match those of normal hydrogen. *Sentinel-5P launch The European Space Agency’s new Sentinel 5P Earth observation satellite has successfully blasted into orbit aboard a Russian Rockot rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome north of Moscow. The Russian Rockot is a converted SS19 three stage liquid fuelled Intercontinental ballistic missile -- with the NATO code name Stiletto. *Russia launches Progress cargo ship to space station A Russian Soyuz rocket has launched the Progress MS-07 cargo ship carrying 2.7 tonnes of supplies bound for the International Space Station. The mission blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan *The Science Report People who binge eat are more likely to obsess and ruminate on angry thoughts. Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of thunderstorms. Men are more likely to die if they receive blood transfusions from women who have been pregnant. Volcanic eruptions linked to the downfall of one of Ancient Egypt's most famous dynasties. The genetic link between prehistoric sabre toothed cats and your average house kittycat.Australian Skeptics on marriage equality The video for the Russian Progress launch is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksy0Ntt_LUE Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, Castbox.fm etc Help support SpaceTime : The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Plus: As a part of the SpaceTime family, you can get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Help support SpaceTime by becoming a patron...and we have rewards for you. Do your bit to keep Stuart fed and housed... details at our Patreon page... https://www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly) *Planet Earth’s close asteroid encounter On October 12 an asteroid known as 2012 TC4 will fly just 6800 kilometres above the surface of the Earth - far below the orbits of many satellites. The 40 metre wide asteroid won’t hit the Earth this time – but it will be about as close as possible while still passing safely. *The mystery of the cosmic cold spot deepens Astronomers are still at a loss to explain a giant cosmic cold spot in their large-scale maps of the universe. A new study has ruled out the most likely suspect – a gigantic supervoid – leaving the door open for more exotic explanations like a collision between universes. *Evidence the Higgs turns into quarks There’s new evidence that the Higgs Boson decays into smaller elemental quark particles. Physicists with the Atlas experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider are reporting the decay of the Higgs into a pair of bottom quarks – one of six types or flavours of quark particle. *New crew arrive on station A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into orbit carrying three new crew members bound for the international space station. The Soyuz FG rocket launched into evening skies from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan on a six hour four-orbit fast rendezvous flight to the orbiting outpost. *Science Report Glial Cells linked to schizophrenia, Sea surface temperatures triggering droughts in in North America and around the Mediterranean, How the Sahara changed from lush green pastures into desert, Illegal trade puts Pangolins at risk of extinction, & New CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing of cancer tumor cells. Soyuz rocket launch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZggEHBqYQ Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, etc. Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space. In 2014 and 2015, Cristoforetti spent 199 days aboard the International Space Station, where she performed a variety of scientific experiments. She studied generations of fruit flies to chart gene changes in relation to disease; she looked after Caenorhabditis elegans worms used in a Japanese-led experiment; and she tended to plants to study how they grow in microgravity. Cristoforetti was supposed to return to Earth in May 2015, but her stay on the ISS was extended to June after a cargo ship flying on a Russian Soyuz rocket failed to reach the space station. The delay extended Cristoforetti’s stay to 199 days, allowing her to collect the record for the longest single spaceflight by any female astronaut. (NASA astronaut Sunita Williams had previously held the record, at 195 days.) Cristoforetti’s record won’t last for long, though. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who’s currently on the ISS, will soon surpass her. One of her records, however, will stay forever. Shortly before retuning to Earth, Cristoforetti used a coffee machine called ISSpresso to brew the first ever espresso in space. She then put on a Star Trek uniform top and used a special zero-gravity cup to sip it. Cristoforetti is not scheduled for another flight to the ISS for now, but she keeps working at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Here, she works on new technologies that could one day be used for a future mission to the Moon. She’s “definitely” looking forward to going to space again though. “Hopefully it’ll be my turn again eventually,” she says. In the meantime, The Verge spoke with Cristoforetti about how she became an astronaut, what scientific experiments she performed on the ISS, and what happened to that famous space espresso machine. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Enjoy the here and now and we'll worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.” - Terry Virts Terry Virts is an astronaut who has spent over 200 days in space at the International Space Station (ISS). While he was at NASA he had one of the most demanding jobs in the world. He is one of only four astronauts ever to pilot the NASA space shuttle, fly on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, perform space walks and hold the role of Commander of the ISS. In this conversation we get personal with Terry and discuss what it's really like being an Astronaut and what the experience has taught him about himself, life and what truly matters. Learn About The moment in Terry's life he first believed he could become an astronaut. What the process to becoming an Astronaut is. Find out if he had any reservations or thoughts that his dream wouldn't happen. How Terry feels when he is up in space Whether living in space has changed his perspective of life. Has the experience opened him up to what's actually possible here on earth. What Terry has learnt about himself through the experience. What working at NASA and being an Astronaut entails other than going into space. Don't miss our signature questions! What moves Terry? What super-power he'd like to have and why? What he believes is his greatest asset? What the greatest piece of wisdom Terry's been given. Want to create a soundbite series for your audience? You can! 
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"I've just been captivated by space travel my entire life." - Terry Virts Terry Virts is an astronaut who has spent over 200 days in space at the International Space Station (ISS). While he was at NASA he had one of the most demanding jobs in the world. He is one of only four astronauts ever to pilot the NASA space shuttle, fly on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, perform space walks and hold the role of Commander of the ISS. In this conversation Terry and I have a conversation about what he loves most about space and how he then communicates what the experience is truly like. Terry also shares how he fosters creativity in his life and what impact travelling into space has had on his imagination. Plus he'll talk on the things that spark his curiosity. Such a warm and genuine guy. You'll love his story. Want to create a soundbite series for your audience? You can! 
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Ed Feng discuss his algorithm, The Power Rank, for forecasting the outcome of sporting events. As a Miller Fellow, he studied statistical physics. We explore his path from academia to Silicon Valley start up and sports analytics.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the hosts of today's show. Today we're talking to Dr Ed thing. I met Ed when he worked at Sandia national labs prior to this. Ed earned his phd from Stanford and then became a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley. His research [00:01:00] has focused on statistical mechanics and single molecule experiments, but I've asked him on today because the big game is tomorrow. I'd left his job at San Diego to become a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He runs the power rank.com which algorithmically ranks sports teams and predicts the outcome of future games. He'll discuss sports analytics with us. Can you give us an overview of that ad? Speaker 4: My background is in a field called statistical physics, so statistical physics is the study of large scale properties of bulk matter based on [00:01:30] it's small scale units. So for instance, in, in a physical system that, that I would study, you can, the large scale property would be like the pressure of a gas or the temperature of a gas and that gas would be made up of atoms or molecules. So those would be the units. I was here at Berkeley and we actually studied a single molecule experiments. And so these are these pretty amazing experiments where you take a laser and grab onto the end of a molecule. So for instance, [00:02:00] like a DNA molecule can grab onto both ends and you can stretch it, pull it, do whatever you want to it. And so these are some really amazing experiments going on in the physics department. Speaker 4: And my work here was doing some theory and some math and some computer simulations to understand those experiments. At some point I got a little disgruntled with the academic life and started looking for some other jobs and I had an interview lined up with Google. And so I thought I should do some homework. I researched their, their pagerank algorithm. So, so this is the [00:02:30] algorithm that that made Google. Okay. So it essentially ranks all web pages. And the intuitive idea behind it is that a website should be ranked highly if other highly ranked websites point to it or link to it. Okay. So you're essentially using the link structure of the web to make a ranking of all websites. And it's really elegant because it considers the whole link structure of the web, not just kind of the local link structure around your particular website. Speaker 4: And again, it's a perfect example of statistical physics. So here [00:03:00] are the large scale properties are the overall rankings of all the websites. And then the small scale units are the individual websites. There are these amazing parallels between statistical physics or what I've been studying. And then patriot. So anyways, I got super excited about this, went to my interview and said, Hey, you know, I'm really excited about working for Google because this is what I've been doing for the last eight years of my life, you know? And, and my interviewer was like, uh, okay. [00:03:30] So needless to say, I did not get the job, but it sparked some ideas about how I could use page rank to do other things, maybe more important things like rank sports teams and figuring out college football and, and things like that. So, so some ideas brewed in my head and it's okay to do it about a couple of years ago, so this was about 2008 so that's how this all got started. Speaker 4: What kind of modifications have you had to make to the page rank algorithm to actually make it work for sports? So it turns out that [00:04:00] pagerank actually doesn't work for sports [inaudible] you can show that it does not have some properties that you would like. Uh, I was carpooling to the national lab over in Livermore with, with a guy named David Gleich and I was telling him about this hobby that I had on the side and Oh, I applied page rank to sports and most people are like, oh cool. But they was like, it seemed completely disinterested. And the reason was because he had actually written his phd thesis [00:04:30] on page rank, so he was entirely on impressed that, you know, it's like, oh, of course you can apply it to sports. And then he was telling me about this paper that they were showing that you you can't, you can't actually apply to sports. Speaker 4: It doesn't have some properties that you need. And I can't really describe all the math on the air. Probably not feasible, but you need to, you need to modify the links in an inappropriate way such that I worked for two teams that are playing a game that end up with a final score. And are those modifications the same regardless [00:05:00] of the sport or the League that the sport is in? Maybe I should go back a sec. So the power rank not only gives you a rank of all the teams, but it also gives you a number. So we call this like a rating 14 that rating is in the unit of points. Okay. So when the, the algorithm gives you a prediction in the sense that if you take the ratings of two teams and subtract them, you get a predictive point spread for a future game. Speaker 4: So one of the modifications that you have to make is you have to make a link, you know like a one [00:05:30] zero kind of link. Makes sense in terms of points. Okay. And in order to do that you need to put some non linear behavior in there. The paper is actually super interesting because it says, oh well page rank doesn't work for ranking sports teams. And then it goes on to make the conclusion that some of the algorithms that go into determining a national champion and football are good, which is about the only place that you'll ever hear any type of praise for these algorithms. Cause most people can't stand because they're, they're these mythical computer algorithms that [00:06:00] no one knows much about and they help determine the national championship. And I know one that roots for the third place team and at the end of the season is really happy with that, that type of situation. Speaker 4: But these people are saying, Hey, well these algorithms are actually good. They work better than page rank. And so David was complaining was like, well, you know, don't just say page rank is wrong. Like fix it, you know, fix it and make it work for sports. And I was like, well that's actually what I did with the power rank. So there are these modifications [00:06:30] that that, you know, take a one zero link structure and make it work for points. And that works across all sports because there's a, there's a point structure for all sports, right? A goal is a goal. Beyond that, uh, there are some other things that you can do to make it much more sports-specific. One of the problems with kind of promoting any ranking system in college football, um, which is kind of my primary focus is that, oh, well, it's just like these silly rankings that determine the national championship. Speaker 4: So right now it's a listing of teams and [00:07:00] it looks like every other of 50 to a hundred people that have tried to rank college football teams with their ideas in math and physics or whatever they're doing stats. You know, I'm a fan and I actually care about these rankings and I want to go a little bit beyond. So I'm looking at how to separate the offense and the defense. So right now you'll hear a lot about, oh well Oregon has the nation's top scoring office. Okay, well does it matter that they played a bunch of crummy defenses last year? And a lot of people, you know [00:07:30] the people, people talk about strength this schedule cause it matters. So they talk about it when like, oh well you know Oregon, uh, so, so Auburn went undefeated last year and that's good because they played a very hard schedule, right? And so they talk about it then they quote these stats that are completely independent of strength, this schedule. So, for instance, Oregon I think scored 43 point whatever points their offense last year, but it doesn't account for who they played and whether pack 10 defenses were bad. And so I'm trying to use the algorithm to [00:08:00] separate out the offenses and defenses and really kind of give insight to each of the units. Speaker 2: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on calyx Berkeley, we're talking with sports analytics expert Ed thing about the powering [inaudible] dot com [inaudible] Speaker 4: [00:08:30] kind of the end goal for a lot of things I'm doing with college football is to not just break down on offense and defense, but break down a passing, rushing and then special teams. And then that's where I think it gets really interesting to your offensive coordinator. Where do you your data? Oh, I get my data from Yahoo. So I just saw publicly the level, everything I [00:09:00] have is publicly available. Um, at some point that might end, but oh, I'm still at a point where I have all the data I need and I need to analyze it. Speaker 4: How successful is your app Algorithm? Well, pretty good. So it's a work in progress. You know, I don't want to go on the air with these very smart people that listen to the show and tell them about the 34 ball games last year that we beat the line of 55% [00:09:30] because you guys will know that that's a really small sample size for the 60% that we'd beat the line last year, uh, or two years ago with the college football ball games. So I've looked at the NFL for the last five years with the kind of rudimentary version of the algorithm that I have right now without any of the offense and defensive modifications. It's beating the line at about 52% so that's a not enough to make money, but the house has a take and so you have to win it about 52.4% in order to make money. Speaker 4: [00:10:00] But you also have to consider that this algorithm does not account for injuries, does not account for coaches that sit their players the last week of the season. Um, any one of the number of things, the rate gets higher in the playoffs. I think it was about 55%. Again, small sample size. So I'm not going to tell you guys that that's anything significant. On other result, we have a, we looked at the last four years of the NBA. It wasn't as good in predicting the outcome of results against the line. Uh, so it was about 51%. [00:10:30] Why do you think that was? So I think it's because of the, how you file at the end of games. Um, I need to look into this more. Um, because we actually saw some stellar results in the NCAA tournament. Um, so actually all neutral site post-season basketball, college basketball games last year we beat it at 59%, which is good. Speaker 4: And then you can get super excited about that. But then you look at over 2000 NBA Games and it's not quite doing as well. So [00:11:00] at the end of a basketball game, you foul because you're behind, you need to get the ball back in order to score. And that behavior is, is a, is detrimental to your final expected score. Okay. So usually a team's score is about a point every time they get the ball. When you fall, you're giving them two shots and usually a team hits about 75% of their foul shots. And so you're essentially giving a point and a half every time you fall. So if you fall three times at the end of the game, you're making a 2.12 point swing. That can certainly affect the outcome of the line. [00:11:30] But in the NBA, uh, we did predict winners at a rate of 70% and that in and of itself doesn't tell you much because that's, you know, the rate at which you can predict winners is very related to how competitive the League is.Speaker 4: Okay. So if the league is not very competitive, you're going to be able to come pick, predict a higher rate of winners because you know, cows going to be Presbyterian. But the NBA, that's not so much. So we actually looked at the line for those same set of games and they were predicting it. Um, [00:12:00] 70.8%. So just using the final scores in the NBA over the last four years where within a percentage point of what the line predicts for the actual game winners in the game. So about 70%, and that's within the air of what you would expect. So, so the two results are within the same air. The MBA, you have a big advantage because you have a lot of games, you do not have that luxury in college football. And so a lot of my work in the future will be figuring out other things to, [00:12:30] to make it work better with college football. Speaker 4: Have you bet. Have you placed bets based on your algorithm? I have. Um, so I was in Vegas for a wedding last April and uh, put some bets down on the NBA playoffs, uh, did pretty well. I know I didn't do, I came out ahead, which is I think is a lot more than most people can, uh, can say, uh, when they go to Vegas. And have you ever thought about trying to make a simulation? Yeah, absolutely. [00:13:00] So the idea of doing a simulation is of baseball is very old. I think the first paper was in the 70s and it's not, you know, these are the types of things that I was trained to do, right? So you write a stochastic simulation or you don't finish your phd. Right. Um, so, so it's kind of in the statistical physics world, it's just kind of what you do. You know, it's kind of like selling wood if you're a carpenter and it absolutely has applications in baseball. [00:13:30] So I kind of would have thought that it would be everywhere in the baseball world. It's not. And the reason, you know, I was reading a bunch of baseball stuff and you always see comments like, oh, well the Atlanta Braves might lose Brian McCann for a couple of weeks and it's going to decrease their run production. And the relationship might not be linear. Speaker 4: And I think, well yeah, sure, you're probably right, [00:14:00] but you should just run a stochastic simulation. You should be able to figure that out. At least at a core screening level. It's certainly not out there in the media world that the idea is out there, but none of kind of the baseball analytics sites do it. Or at least they don't discuss it very widely. At least not that I know of. And interestingly, only four out of 30 major league baseball teams can do it, which is what I find really interesting because [00:14:30] you know, these guys are pretty advanced. They have these huge databases. Actually the Pittsburgh pirates have an enormous database when the most sophisticated databases and all the major league baseball. But there's a lot of old tools and you know, these guys are busy and they've never developed these kinds of tools and there are opportunities, I think, you know, I mean I've actually talked to people in organizations, in organizations that would like to have that. Speaker 4: It's certainly something that you could I see on the powering maybe next season. And then just let me, uh, actually conclude. So this whole idea of [00:15:00] a random process is actually at the core of both page rank and the power. Right. Okay. The backbone of that is mathematical idea of a mark out process. So it's essentially random. That's the idea that Pedro is based off of. It's a, it's a distribution that comes out of this type of, of random simulation. And so they always motivate it by the, you know, the intuitive result of [inaudible] page rank is as the random surfer. So you have a surfer, you go to website, you randomly could come one of the other sites and he keeps doing this [00:15:30] and the amount of time he spends on any site is that related directly related to the directly proportional to the rank of that website. Speaker 4: And so the same idea applies to my algorithm. It's a, essentially you have a fan, I like to call them fickle Freddy [inaudible]. He starts out being a Phillies fan and then he's like, Eh, I don't like these guys anymore because they keep losing. And so then he picks one of the teams that they lost to makes it random choice between all the seams and jumps and [00:16:00] then keeps doing this randomly. And so intuitively you can think of the algorithm in terms of this fickle fan that keeps making these jumps between teams and he's more likely to jump to your team if you've beaten that team, if you'd beaten that other team that he's already on. And this goes on forever. And the more that fickle Freddy is a fan of your team, the higher your rank. And so that's kind of the intuitive idea behind what's going on here. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 3: [00:16:30] you're listening to spectrum on K A L X we're talking to with the sports analytics expert Ed thing about his site, the power rank.com and what he predicts tomorrow for the big game Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:17:00] So one of my colleagues, his name is Steve Abel, he's, he's working on his postdoc and he, we did our phd in the same group and he always says that [inaudible] or statistical physics applies to everything. And it's essentially that, you know, we're studying the large scale bulk properties of things that are made up of individual units. You know, one day he told me, he's like, Hey, this whole power rank thing, you're actually proving that likes that neck applies to everything. I wonder are they [00:17:30] uh, interesting facts about this show is that it's prerecorded and edited so well will air immediately before the big game. It's still quite a ways out. But do you want to make any comments? I absolutely want to make some comments. I think it's, I think it's super interesting. So let's start last night. So cal went up to Oregon. No, a lot of my methods said that Oregon was the better team, but that they would lose by about 19. Speaker 4: And the line said that Oregon would win by 24. So [00:18:00] it's quite a discrepancy. There's a lot of factors there. Went up there and you know, we knew, we kinda knew that their defense, it dropped off a little bit, but Oregon really took advantage of that. Had a couple of really long runs that they didn't dream of last year when they came down here to Strawberry Canyon. [inaudible] was in the game. They were up one at half time. And then the wheels kind of fell off in the second half and they ended up losing by 28 so we're going ended up covering, that's part of this business. You're wrong a lot. But I thought it was interesting because these are the types of things I think about because Kelly's defense really played badly. I mean there was, there was about maybe [00:18:30] three runs, a 50 yards or more that went for touchdowns. Speaker 4: The quarterback sack Maynard did not have his greatest game. You know, he threw a touchdown pass in the first half but wasn't very effective in the second half at all. And I actually got pulled towards the end of the game. So now getting to big game, my rankings have Oregon and Stanford about the same right now. A little bit different. Stanford slightly ahead. But again, you know there are huge fluctuations. Okay. So I think the rankings probably would have held for the last season too. So it's by maybe about a 20 point cap, but Stanford won the game pretty soundly last year [00:19:00] and that happens with turnovers and you just never know what's going to happen. You know, the cow's defense is much better than they showed last night at Oregon. Maynard's probably a much better quarterback than he showed last night. And you know, they have some weapon. Kyle definitely have some weapons at receivers that are, that are very dangerous. It's interesting that sports fans tend to forget very quickly. So a lot of Stanford fans are very excited about their team as they, as they rightfully should be. And they kind of forget that. Two years ago cal came down to Stanford quarterback sensation. Andrew [00:19:30] luck had his worst game of his career and cal won again. So there's a lot of variants in sports. Anything can happen, Stanford will most likely win, but you never know. Speaker 4: You know, the best background to understand sports turned out to be studying statistical physics. I mean it was great. It was perfect. So Ed, thanks for joining us. Thank you guys for having me. It was a pleasure. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:00] that was Ed Fang. You can visit his website@wwwdotthepowerrank.com Speaker 3: a regular feature of spectrum is to present a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Brad Swift joins me for this. I'm happy to announce that the cabinet space and science center at 10,000 Skyline Boulevard in Oakland is joining the list [00:20:30] of museums that are offering adult nights. Cabot will host such an outing the third Friday of every month this month. That is today, November 18th from seven to 11:00 PM the event is 18 and over and costs $15 this is a bit cheaper than general admission. This includes access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion forums, a planetarium show, film screens, and a telescope viewing when weather permits. The theme for this month is curiosity, a cure for [00:21:00] boredom or NASA's next generation rover searching for water and signs of life on Mars, capita, astronomer Ben. Burris will host a discussion on the rover and UC Berkeley's. Dan Wertheimer will discuss the search for ITI. There'll be a fix it clinic for your broken something or others at a telescope makers workshop and a lab on surviving in space. Visit www dot Cabot's space.org/night school dot HTM for more information. Speaker 5: The next science at cal lecture [00:21:30] will be given at 11:00 AM tomorrow, November 19th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the talk will be given by Dr Genevieve graves and is entitled from gas into galaxies. Just add gravity. Come learn about the origins and the ultimate fate of this island universe we call the Milky Way. Dr Genevieve graves studies the formation histories of galaxies, how they form stars collide and merge together to make [00:22:00] bigger galaxies and eventually shut off star formation. Dr. Graves is a bay area local, having graduated from Albany High School in 1997 after undergraduate work at Harvard and Cambridge, she returned to California to do a phd in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. She is now a fellow at UC Berkeley's Miller Institute for Basic Research in science, Speaker 3: Internet Archive, founder Booster Kale is giving a talk to the long now foundation on universal access to [00:22:30] all knowledge. He will discuss the next steps for the archive such as whether we can make a distributed web of books that supports lending and vending and how our machines might learn by reading these materials. Modern research into machine language translation and optical character recognition will be discussed as well. How we plan to preserve petabytes of changing data. This talk is on Wednesday, November 30th from seven 30 to 9:00 PM at the cal theater in San Francisco's Fort Mason. Center admission [00:23:00] is $8 and 71 cents for tickets. Please visit [inaudible] dot org slash seminars the exploratorium is after dark falls on the first Thursday of every month from six to 10:00 PM for people 18 and over. It is $15 or $12 for students, seniors and persons with disabilities and is free for exploratory members. The theme for December is after dark is glow. In addition to the hands on science exhibits available at the exploratorium. There'll be information on bioluminescent marine life, how to make glow sticks, [00:23:30] black lit, fluorescent cocktails for purchase, and more. There will be illuminated sculptures including local favorite playa flies by Michael Brown and Cuba tron by Mark Lotter. Visit www.exploratorium.edu/after dark for more Info Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Speaker 2: Berkeley [inaudible] Speaker 3: [00:24:00] with some current science news headlines. Here's bad swift, Speaker 5: a Russian Soyuz capsule, so use TMA 22 carrying an American and two Russians blasted off successfully Monday, November 14th from Kazakhstan on a mission to the international space station. It is the first flight of a NASA astronaut in the post space shuttle era [00:24:30] and as a welcome success for the Russian space program, a series of Russian launch system failures over the past four months has delayed the international space station staff rotation, raising the possibility of no crew on the space station. Last week, a Russian Mars probe failed to leave Earth's orbit. It is expected to burn up in the atmosphere by November 26 unless it can be reactivated in August. Then unmanned progress cargo ship [00:25:00] bound for the International Space Station crashed. The rocket that failed was the same kind used by the Soyuz, the NASA program to contract future International Space Station cargo and crew transport from two US companies space x and orbital has ironically been delayed by the reliability issues surrounding the Soyuz system. Space X is awaiting permission from the International Space Station partners to validate their system [00:25:30] by launching its falcon nine rocket and docking the dragon capsule when the International Space Station, the success of the recent Soyuz mission might accelerate the decision on the space x launch date. Speaker 3: Science news summarized an article by Edward Pos shouts of the Massachusetts General Hospital and fell asleep. Researchers that appeared in the November 8th issue of current biology. The team claimed they have for the first time used functional magnetic resonance imaging to capture the brain activity of [00:26:00] lucid dreamers. Lucid dreamers are able to control their dreams while in deep sleep. They ask dreamers to squeeze first their left hand and then the right hand, one of their six volunteers were able to do this and the FMR I revealed increased activity in their sensory motor cortex when they were directed to squeeze their hands. Similar brain regions showed activity whether the hand squeezing was performed while awake, imagined while awake or directed in a dream. Speaker 5: Coral reefs worldwide are increasingly disturbed by environmental [00:26:30] events that are causing their decline. Yet some coral reefs recover science daily reports that you see. Researchers have discovered that the health of coral reefs in the South Pacific of Moria in French Polynesia maybe due to protection by parrotfish and surgeonfish that eat algae along with the protection of reefs that shelter juvenile fish. The findings are published in the August issue of the journal plus one coral [00:27:00] reefs that suffer large losses of live coral often become overgrown with algae and never returned to a state where the reefs are again largely covered by live coral. In contrast, the reefs surrounding Maria experienced large losses of live coral in the past, most recently in the early 1980s and have returned each time to assist them dominated by healthy live corals. The new research found that fringing reefs, the reefs that grow against the island act as a nursery ground for baby fishes.Speaker 5: [00:27:30] Most notably herbivores, [inaudible] fishes with more food available in the form of allergy. The survivorship of the baby parrot fishes and surgeon fishes increased providing individuals to help control the algae on all the nearby reefs. In effect, the large numbers of parrot fishes and surgeon fishes are acting like thousands of fishy lawn mowers. Keeping the algae crop down to levels low enough that there is still space for new baby corals to settle into the reef [00:28:00] and begin to grow. A major reason the reefs in the Caribbean do not recover after serious disturbances is because these reefs lack healthy populations of pair of fishes and surgeon fishes due to the effects of over fishing without these species to help crop the algae down, these reefs quickly become overgrown. With allergy, a situation that makes it very hard for corals to reestablish themselves. The new research suggests that marine protected areas need to include the [00:28:30] fringing reefs that serve as nursery grounds. Without these nursery grounds, populations are pair of fishes in surgeon fishes can't respond to increasing amounts of algae on the reefs by outputting more baby herbivores. 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Ed Feng discuss his algorithm, The Power Rank, for forecasting the outcome of sporting events. As a Miller Fellow, he studied statistical physics. We explore his path from academia to Silicon Valley start up and sports analytics.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the hosts of today's show. Today we're talking to Dr Ed thing. I met Ed when he worked at Sandia national labs prior to this. Ed earned his phd from Stanford and then became a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley. His research [00:01:00] has focused on statistical mechanics and single molecule experiments, but I've asked him on today because the big game is tomorrow. I'd left his job at San Diego to become a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He runs the power rank.com which algorithmically ranks sports teams and predicts the outcome of future games. He'll discuss sports analytics with us. Can you give us an overview of that ad? Speaker 4: My background is in a field called statistical physics, so statistical physics is the study of large scale properties of bulk matter based on [00:01:30] it's small scale units. So for instance, in, in a physical system that, that I would study, you can, the large scale property would be like the pressure of a gas or the temperature of a gas and that gas would be made up of atoms or molecules. So those would be the units. I was here at Berkeley and we actually studied a single molecule experiments. And so these are these pretty amazing experiments where you take a laser and grab onto the end of a molecule. So for instance, [00:02:00] like a DNA molecule can grab onto both ends and you can stretch it, pull it, do whatever you want to it. And so these are some really amazing experiments going on in the physics department. Speaker 4: And my work here was doing some theory and some math and some computer simulations to understand those experiments. At some point I got a little disgruntled with the academic life and started looking for some other jobs and I had an interview lined up with Google. And so I thought I should do some homework. I researched their, their pagerank algorithm. So, so this is the [00:02:30] algorithm that that made Google. Okay. So it essentially ranks all web pages. And the intuitive idea behind it is that a website should be ranked highly if other highly ranked websites point to it or link to it. Okay. So you're essentially using the link structure of the web to make a ranking of all websites. And it's really elegant because it considers the whole link structure of the web, not just kind of the local link structure around your particular website. Speaker 4: And again, it's a perfect example of statistical physics. So here [00:03:00] are the large scale properties are the overall rankings of all the websites. And then the small scale units are the individual websites. There are these amazing parallels between statistical physics or what I've been studying. And then patriot. So anyways, I got super excited about this, went to my interview and said, Hey, you know, I'm really excited about working for Google because this is what I've been doing for the last eight years of my life, you know? And, and my interviewer was like, uh, okay. [00:03:30] So needless to say, I did not get the job, but it sparked some ideas about how I could use page rank to do other things, maybe more important things like rank sports teams and figuring out college football and, and things like that. So, so some ideas brewed in my head and it's okay to do it about a couple of years ago, so this was about 2008 so that's how this all got started. Speaker 4: What kind of modifications have you had to make to the page rank algorithm to actually make it work for sports? So it turns out that [00:04:00] pagerank actually doesn't work for sports [inaudible] you can show that it does not have some properties that you would like. Uh, I was carpooling to the national lab over in Livermore with, with a guy named David Gleich and I was telling him about this hobby that I had on the side and Oh, I applied page rank to sports and most people are like, oh cool. But they was like, it seemed completely disinterested. And the reason was because he had actually written his phd thesis [00:04:30] on page rank, so he was entirely on impressed that, you know, it's like, oh, of course you can apply it to sports. And then he was telling me about this paper that they were showing that you you can't, you can't actually apply to sports. Speaker 4: It doesn't have some properties that you need. And I can't really describe all the math on the air. Probably not feasible, but you need to, you need to modify the links in an inappropriate way such that I worked for two teams that are playing a game that end up with a final score. And are those modifications the same regardless [00:05:00] of the sport or the League that the sport is in? Maybe I should go back a sec. So the power rank not only gives you a rank of all the teams, but it also gives you a number. So we call this like a rating 14 that rating is in the unit of points. Okay. So when the, the algorithm gives you a prediction in the sense that if you take the ratings of two teams and subtract them, you get a predictive point spread for a future game. Speaker 4: So one of the modifications that you have to make is you have to make a link, you know like a one [00:05:30] zero kind of link. Makes sense in terms of points. Okay. And in order to do that you need to put some non linear behavior in there. The paper is actually super interesting because it says, oh well page rank doesn't work for ranking sports teams. And then it goes on to make the conclusion that some of the algorithms that go into determining a national champion and football are good, which is about the only place that you'll ever hear any type of praise for these algorithms. Cause most people can't stand because they're, they're these mythical computer algorithms that [00:06:00] no one knows much about and they help determine the national championship. And I know one that roots for the third place team and at the end of the season is really happy with that, that type of situation. Speaker 4: But these people are saying, Hey, well these algorithms are actually good. They work better than page rank. And so David was complaining was like, well, you know, don't just say page rank is wrong. Like fix it, you know, fix it and make it work for sports. And I was like, well that's actually what I did with the power rank. So there are these modifications [00:06:30] that that, you know, take a one zero link structure and make it work for points. And that works across all sports because there's a, there's a point structure for all sports, right? A goal is a goal. Beyond that, uh, there are some other things that you can do to make it much more sports-specific. One of the problems with kind of promoting any ranking system in college football, um, which is kind of my primary focus is that, oh, well, it's just like these silly rankings that determine the national championship. Speaker 4: So right now it's a listing of teams and [00:07:00] it looks like every other of 50 to a hundred people that have tried to rank college football teams with their ideas in math and physics or whatever they're doing stats. You know, I'm a fan and I actually care about these rankings and I want to go a little bit beyond. So I'm looking at how to separate the offense and the defense. So right now you'll hear a lot about, oh well Oregon has the nation's top scoring office. Okay, well does it matter that they played a bunch of crummy defenses last year? And a lot of people, you know [00:07:30] the people, people talk about strength this schedule cause it matters. So they talk about it when like, oh well you know Oregon, uh, so, so Auburn went undefeated last year and that's good because they played a very hard schedule, right? And so they talk about it then they quote these stats that are completely independent of strength, this schedule. So, for instance, Oregon I think scored 43 point whatever points their offense last year, but it doesn't account for who they played and whether pack 10 defenses were bad. And so I'm trying to use the algorithm to [00:08:00] separate out the offenses and defenses and really kind of give insight to each of the units. Speaker 2: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on calyx Berkeley, we're talking with sports analytics expert Ed thing about the powering [inaudible] dot com [inaudible] Speaker 4: [00:08:30] kind of the end goal for a lot of things I'm doing with college football is to not just break down on offense and defense, but break down a passing, rushing and then special teams. And then that's where I think it gets really interesting to your offensive coordinator. Where do you your data? Oh, I get my data from Yahoo. So I just saw publicly the level, everything I [00:09:00] have is publicly available. Um, at some point that might end, but oh, I'm still at a point where I have all the data I need and I need to analyze it. Speaker 4: How successful is your app Algorithm? Well, pretty good. So it's a work in progress. You know, I don't want to go on the air with these very smart people that listen to the show and tell them about the 34 ball games last year that we beat the line of 55% [00:09:30] because you guys will know that that's a really small sample size for the 60% that we'd beat the line last year, uh, or two years ago with the college football ball games. So I've looked at the NFL for the last five years with the kind of rudimentary version of the algorithm that I have right now without any of the offense and defensive modifications. It's beating the line at about 52% so that's a not enough to make money, but the house has a take and so you have to win it about 52.4% in order to make money. Speaker 4: [00:10:00] But you also have to consider that this algorithm does not account for injuries, does not account for coaches that sit their players the last week of the season. Um, any one of the number of things, the rate gets higher in the playoffs. I think it was about 55%. Again, small sample size. So I'm not going to tell you guys that that's anything significant. On other result, we have a, we looked at the last four years of the NBA. It wasn't as good in predicting the outcome of results against the line. Uh, so it was about 51%. [00:10:30] Why do you think that was? So I think it's because of the, how you file at the end of games. Um, I need to look into this more. Um, because we actually saw some stellar results in the NCAA tournament. Um, so actually all neutral site post-season basketball, college basketball games last year we beat it at 59%, which is good. Speaker 4: And then you can get super excited about that. But then you look at over 2000 NBA Games and it's not quite doing as well. So [00:11:00] at the end of a basketball game, you foul because you're behind, you need to get the ball back in order to score. And that behavior is, is a, is detrimental to your final expected score. Okay. So usually a team's score is about a point every time they get the ball. When you fall, you're giving them two shots and usually a team hits about 75% of their foul shots. And so you're essentially giving a point and a half every time you fall. So if you fall three times at the end of the game, you're making a 2.12 point swing. That can certainly affect the outcome of the line. [00:11:30] But in the NBA, uh, we did predict winners at a rate of 70% and that in and of itself doesn't tell you much because that's, you know, the rate at which you can predict winners is very related to how competitive the League is.Speaker 4: Okay. So if the league is not very competitive, you're going to be able to come pick, predict a higher rate of winners because you know, cows going to be Presbyterian. But the NBA, that's not so much. So we actually looked at the line for those same set of games and they were predicting it. Um, [00:12:00] 70.8%. So just using the final scores in the NBA over the last four years where within a percentage point of what the line predicts for the actual game winners in the game. So about 70%, and that's within the air of what you would expect. So, so the two results are within the same air. The MBA, you have a big advantage because you have a lot of games, you do not have that luxury in college football. And so a lot of my work in the future will be figuring out other things to, [00:12:30] to make it work better with college football. Speaker 4: Have you bet. Have you placed bets based on your algorithm? I have. Um, so I was in Vegas for a wedding last April and uh, put some bets down on the NBA playoffs, uh, did pretty well. I know I didn't do, I came out ahead, which is I think is a lot more than most people can, uh, can say, uh, when they go to Vegas. And have you ever thought about trying to make a simulation? Yeah, absolutely. [00:13:00] So the idea of doing a simulation is of baseball is very old. I think the first paper was in the 70s and it's not, you know, these are the types of things that I was trained to do, right? So you write a stochastic simulation or you don't finish your phd. Right. Um, so, so it's kind of in the statistical physics world, it's just kind of what you do. You know, it's kind of like selling wood if you're a carpenter and it absolutely has applications in baseball. [00:13:30] So I kind of would have thought that it would be everywhere in the baseball world. It's not. And the reason, you know, I was reading a bunch of baseball stuff and you always see comments like, oh, well the Atlanta Braves might lose Brian McCann for a couple of weeks and it's going to decrease their run production. And the relationship might not be linear. Speaker 4: And I think, well yeah, sure, you're probably right, [00:14:00] but you should just run a stochastic simulation. You should be able to figure that out. At least at a core screening level. It's certainly not out there in the media world that the idea is out there, but none of kind of the baseball analytics sites do it. Or at least they don't discuss it very widely. At least not that I know of. And interestingly, only four out of 30 major league baseball teams can do it, which is what I find really interesting because [00:14:30] you know, these guys are pretty advanced. They have these huge databases. Actually the Pittsburgh pirates have an enormous database when the most sophisticated databases and all the major league baseball. But there's a lot of old tools and you know, these guys are busy and they've never developed these kinds of tools and there are opportunities, I think, you know, I mean I've actually talked to people in organizations, in organizations that would like to have that. Speaker 4: It's certainly something that you could I see on the powering maybe next season. And then just let me, uh, actually conclude. So this whole idea of [00:15:00] a random process is actually at the core of both page rank and the power. Right. Okay. The backbone of that is mathematical idea of a mark out process. So it's essentially random. That's the idea that Pedro is based off of. It's a, it's a distribution that comes out of this type of, of random simulation. And so they always motivate it by the, you know, the intuitive result of [inaudible] page rank is as the random surfer. So you have a surfer, you go to website, you randomly could come one of the other sites and he keeps doing this [00:15:30] and the amount of time he spends on any site is that related directly related to the directly proportional to the rank of that website. Speaker 4: And so the same idea applies to my algorithm. It's a, essentially you have a fan, I like to call them fickle Freddy [inaudible]. He starts out being a Phillies fan and then he's like, Eh, I don't like these guys anymore because they keep losing. And so then he picks one of the teams that they lost to makes it random choice between all the seams and jumps and [00:16:00] then keeps doing this randomly. And so intuitively you can think of the algorithm in terms of this fickle fan that keeps making these jumps between teams and he's more likely to jump to your team if you've beaten that team, if you'd beaten that other team that he's already on. And this goes on forever. And the more that fickle Freddy is a fan of your team, the higher your rank. And so that's kind of the intuitive idea behind what's going on here. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 3: [00:16:30] you're listening to spectrum on K A L X we're talking to with the sports analytics expert Ed thing about his site, the power rank.com and what he predicts tomorrow for the big game Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:17:00] So one of my colleagues, his name is Steve Abel, he's, he's working on his postdoc and he, we did our phd in the same group and he always says that [inaudible] or statistical physics applies to everything. And it's essentially that, you know, we're studying the large scale bulk properties of things that are made up of individual units. You know, one day he told me, he's like, Hey, this whole power rank thing, you're actually proving that likes that neck applies to everything. I wonder are they [00:17:30] uh, interesting facts about this show is that it's prerecorded and edited so well will air immediately before the big game. It's still quite a ways out. But do you want to make any comments? I absolutely want to make some comments. I think it's, I think it's super interesting. So let's start last night. So cal went up to Oregon. No, a lot of my methods said that Oregon was the better team, but that they would lose by about 19. Speaker 4: And the line said that Oregon would win by 24. So [00:18:00] it's quite a discrepancy. There's a lot of factors there. Went up there and you know, we knew, we kinda knew that their defense, it dropped off a little bit, but Oregon really took advantage of that. Had a couple of really long runs that they didn't dream of last year when they came down here to Strawberry Canyon. [inaudible] was in the game. They were up one at half time. And then the wheels kind of fell off in the second half and they ended up losing by 28 so we're going ended up covering, that's part of this business. You're wrong a lot. But I thought it was interesting because these are the types of things I think about because Kelly's defense really played badly. I mean there was, there was about maybe [00:18:30] three runs, a 50 yards or more that went for touchdowns. Speaker 4: The quarterback sack Maynard did not have his greatest game. You know, he threw a touchdown pass in the first half but wasn't very effective in the second half at all. And I actually got pulled towards the end of the game. So now getting to big game, my rankings have Oregon and Stanford about the same right now. A little bit different. Stanford slightly ahead. But again, you know there are huge fluctuations. Okay. So I think the rankings probably would have held for the last season too. So it's by maybe about a 20 point cap, but Stanford won the game pretty soundly last year [00:19:00] and that happens with turnovers and you just never know what's going to happen. You know, the cow's defense is much better than they showed last night at Oregon. Maynard's probably a much better quarterback than he showed last night. And you know, they have some weapon. Kyle definitely have some weapons at receivers that are, that are very dangerous. It's interesting that sports fans tend to forget very quickly. So a lot of Stanford fans are very excited about their team as they, as they rightfully should be. And they kind of forget that. Two years ago cal came down to Stanford quarterback sensation. Andrew [00:19:30] luck had his worst game of his career and cal won again. So there's a lot of variants in sports. Anything can happen, Stanford will most likely win, but you never know. Speaker 4: You know, the best background to understand sports turned out to be studying statistical physics. I mean it was great. It was perfect. So Ed, thanks for joining us. Thank you guys for having me. It was a pleasure. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:00] that was Ed Fang. You can visit his website@wwwdotthepowerrank.com Speaker 3: a regular feature of spectrum is to present a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Brad Swift joins me for this. I'm happy to announce that the cabinet space and science center at 10,000 Skyline Boulevard in Oakland is joining the list [00:20:30] of museums that are offering adult nights. Cabot will host such an outing the third Friday of every month this month. That is today, November 18th from seven to 11:00 PM the event is 18 and over and costs $15 this is a bit cheaper than general admission. This includes access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion forums, a planetarium show, film screens, and a telescope viewing when weather permits. The theme for this month is curiosity, a cure for [00:21:00] boredom or NASA's next generation rover searching for water and signs of life on Mars, capita, astronomer Ben. Burris will host a discussion on the rover and UC Berkeley's. Dan Wertheimer will discuss the search for ITI. There'll be a fix it clinic for your broken something or others at a telescope makers workshop and a lab on surviving in space. Visit www dot Cabot's space.org/night school dot HTM for more information. Speaker 5: The next science at cal lecture [00:21:30] will be given at 11:00 AM tomorrow, November 19th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the talk will be given by Dr Genevieve graves and is entitled from gas into galaxies. Just add gravity. Come learn about the origins and the ultimate fate of this island universe we call the Milky Way. Dr Genevieve graves studies the formation histories of galaxies, how they form stars collide and merge together to make [00:22:00] bigger galaxies and eventually shut off star formation. Dr. Graves is a bay area local, having graduated from Albany High School in 1997 after undergraduate work at Harvard and Cambridge, she returned to California to do a phd in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. She is now a fellow at UC Berkeley's Miller Institute for Basic Research in science, Speaker 3: Internet Archive, founder Booster Kale is giving a talk to the long now foundation on universal access to [00:22:30] all knowledge. He will discuss the next steps for the archive such as whether we can make a distributed web of books that supports lending and vending and how our machines might learn by reading these materials. Modern research into machine language translation and optical character recognition will be discussed as well. How we plan to preserve petabytes of changing data. This talk is on Wednesday, November 30th from seven 30 to 9:00 PM at the cal theater in San Francisco's Fort Mason. Center admission [00:23:00] is $8 and 71 cents for tickets. Please visit [inaudible] dot org slash seminars the exploratorium is after dark falls on the first Thursday of every month from six to 10:00 PM for people 18 and over. It is $15 or $12 for students, seniors and persons with disabilities and is free for exploratory members. The theme for December is after dark is glow. In addition to the hands on science exhibits available at the exploratorium. There'll be information on bioluminescent marine life, how to make glow sticks, [00:23:30] black lit, fluorescent cocktails for purchase, and more. There will be illuminated sculptures including local favorite playa flies by Michael Brown and Cuba tron by Mark Lotter. Visit www.exploratorium.edu/after dark for more Info Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Speaker 2: Berkeley [inaudible] Speaker 3: [00:24:00] with some current science news headlines. Here's bad swift, Speaker 5: a Russian Soyuz capsule, so use TMA 22 carrying an American and two Russians blasted off successfully Monday, November 14th from Kazakhstan on a mission to the international space station. It is the first flight of a NASA astronaut in the post space shuttle era [00:24:30] and as a welcome success for the Russian space program, a series of Russian launch system failures over the past four months has delayed the international space station staff rotation, raising the possibility of no crew on the space station. Last week, a Russian Mars probe failed to leave Earth's orbit. It is expected to burn up in the atmosphere by November 26 unless it can be reactivated in August. Then unmanned progress cargo ship [00:25:00] bound for the International Space Station crashed. The rocket that failed was the same kind used by the Soyuz, the NASA program to contract future International Space Station cargo and crew transport from two US companies space x and orbital has ironically been delayed by the reliability issues surrounding the Soyuz system. Space X is awaiting permission from the International Space Station partners to validate their system [00:25:30] by launching its falcon nine rocket and docking the dragon capsule when the International Space Station, the success of the recent Soyuz mission might accelerate the decision on the space x launch date. Speaker 3: Science news summarized an article by Edward Pos shouts of the Massachusetts General Hospital and fell asleep. Researchers that appeared in the November 8th issue of current biology. The team claimed they have for the first time used functional magnetic resonance imaging to capture the brain activity of [00:26:00] lucid dreamers. Lucid dreamers are able to control their dreams while in deep sleep. They ask dreamers to squeeze first their left hand and then the right hand, one of their six volunteers were able to do this and the FMR I revealed increased activity in their sensory motor cortex when they were directed to squeeze their hands. Similar brain regions showed activity whether the hand squeezing was performed while awake, imagined while awake or directed in a dream. Speaker 5: Coral reefs worldwide are increasingly disturbed by environmental [00:26:30] events that are causing their decline. Yet some coral reefs recover science daily reports that you see. Researchers have discovered that the health of coral reefs in the South Pacific of Moria in French Polynesia maybe due to protection by parrotfish and surgeonfish that eat algae along with the protection of reefs that shelter juvenile fish. The findings are published in the August issue of the journal plus one coral [00:27:00] reefs that suffer large losses of live coral often become overgrown with algae and never returned to a state where the reefs are again largely covered by live coral. In contrast, the reefs surrounding Maria experienced large losses of live coral in the past, most recently in the early 1980s and have returned each time to assist them dominated by healthy live corals. The new research found that fringing reefs, the reefs that grow against the island act as a nursery ground for baby fishes.Speaker 5: [00:27:30] Most notably herbivores, [inaudible] fishes with more food available in the form of allergy. The survivorship of the baby parrot fishes and surgeon fishes increased providing individuals to help control the algae on all the nearby reefs. In effect, the large numbers of parrot fishes and surgeon fishes are acting like thousands of fishy lawn mowers. Keeping the algae crop down to levels low enough that there is still space for new baby corals to settle into the reef [00:28:00] and begin to grow. A major reason the reefs in the Caribbean do not recover after serious disturbances is because these reefs lack healthy populations of pair of fishes and surgeon fishes due to the effects of over fishing without these species to help crop the algae down, these reefs quickly become overgrown. With allergy, a situation that makes it very hard for corals to reestablish themselves. The new research suggests that marine protected areas need to include the [00:28:30] fringing reefs that serve as nursery grounds. Without these nursery grounds, populations are pair of fishes in surgeon fishes can't respond to increasing amounts of algae on the reefs by outputting more baby herbivores. 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On this episode, We discuss the return of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA)  Hayabusa probe after a 7 year voyage to obtain a piece of Asteroid Itokawa. We discuss the Mars 500 experiment and answer two questions from our mailbag, and a thanks to @QuantumG and @racshot653 for the questions. Keep them coming! After that we look at NASA's  Expedition 24 to the International Space Station,  and review an  interesting editorial from MSNBC's James Oberg on reliance on the Russian Soyuz vehicle. We comment on relatively breaking news of President Obama's plan to take $100 million out of NASA's budget to put toward job training for NASA contractors who will be losing their jobs as a result of the Project Constellation shutdown on the space coast and elsewhere.  We end with a discussion of a mystery on board Atlantis, NASA giving you a chance to send your face into space, and a brand new exhibit opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum honoring the crew of Apollo 1 called "27 Seconds". A special thank you to CraftLass for "pinch hitting" for Gina Herlihy as a guest panel member this week! Follow CraftLass on Twitter: @CraftLass. To see the video blog for day 1 for the Mars 500, you can check it out here on YouTube. You can also follow Diego Urbina on Twitter at @diegou. You can see that the Falcon 9 launched at T-0 here on YouTube, the roll of the vehicle at launch here on YouTube, and the UFO "sighting" in Australia here on YouTube. The op-ed article written by James Oberg can be read here on MSNBC To send your "Face in Space", you can visit http://faceinspace.nasa.gov/ As well, here is the surprise which was left by the STS-132 crew aboard locker A-16 on Atlantis: A picture was inserted here. To view the picture, please visit http://talkingspaceonline.com Host this week: Sawyer Rosenstein. Panel Members: Gene Mikulka, Mark Ratterman, and special guest panelist CraftLass Show Recorded - 6/18/2010

In May 2009, Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS. His back-up for the trip will be Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers. De Winne’s role on board the ISS will be to carry out experiments for an extensive scientific European programme. He will also be operating the Station’s robotic arm and the Japanese robotic arm after the docking of HTV, the cargo module from Japan. In preparation for these activities De Winne has been going through an intensive and long period of training aimed at preparing him physically and practising the experiments he will have to carry out on board the ISS in microgravity.ESApod video programme

You asked for it, you got it - another space show! This time around Carl and Richard talk about the latest news around commercial space, including new contracts for SpaceX and Orbital Science to fly to the ISS. They discuss the impact of the failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship to the ISS. Then they have some real fun and dive into the space debris debate and the potential of space elevators. Another total space geek out!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations