Weekly Space Hangout - April 10, 2015: Orbital Docking with Dr. Stephen Granade

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Special Guest:

Dr. Stephen Granade (

@sargent

)

Guests:

Dave Dickinson (

@astroguyz

/

www.astroguyz.com

) Charles Black (

@charlesblack

/

sen.com/charles-black

)

This Week's Stories:

Blue Origin finishes engine work for suborbital spaceship

Design work begins on asteroid lander mission

CRS-6 and Hunting for Dragon in orbit

Was the past Weekend's Lunar Eclipse Really total?

NASA Partners With Commercial Industry to Advance Deep Space Exploration Capabilities

Astronomers Wind Back Clock on Supernova Blast

New Explanation for Mercury's Dark Surface

U.S. Air Force Envisions Sharing Space Surveillance Data with Scientists

ESA, Industry at Odds over Ariane 6 Funding Responsibilities

Drama as Dust "Stars" Confuse Comet Probe Rosetta

Eerie Green Space Clouds Glow in New Hubble Photos

New Technique Shines Light on Titan, Largest Moon of Saturn

Large Hadron Collider Restarts After Two-Year Rebuild

Native Hawaiians Arrested in Protests of Massive Telescope

TWiM SpaceX Preparing for a Busy Season of Missions and Test Milestones

Update on Dawn Spacecraft at Ceres

NASA-Funded Program Will Use SPIDER Robots to Build a Home for Mankind in SPACE

Asteroid Sample Mission Begins Assembly and Testing

Astronomers Lock Horns Over Mystery Object G2

ALMA Sees Einstein Ring in Stunning Image of Lensed Galaxy

Secondary Payloads, New Partnerships Mark Progress Toward Deep Space Exploration

Diverse Destinations Considered for New Interplanetary Probe

Jeff Bezos' Rocket Company to Begin Suborbital Test Flights This Year

A New View of the Moon's Formation

Blue Origin BE-3 Hydrogen Engine Successfully Completes Acceptance Testing

NASA Favors Propulsive Mars Landings Over Supersonic Parachutes

Life's Building Blocks Found in Young Star's Disc

Watch the First Artificial Gravity Experiment

Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space

NASA Considering Options To Save Opportunity Rover

Still No New Heliophysics Director at NASA

Basic Ingredients for Life Found Around Distant Star

Our Sun Came Late to the Milky Way's Star-Birth Party

Boeing's CST-100 Spaceship Makes a Splash in Test Plunge

Student Rocket Launch 2015

First Successful Beam at Record Energy of 6.5 TeV

The Canadian Government Has Approved $243.5 Million for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project

Online Messier Marathon Tomorrow (11-APR)! 1830 UTC

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