Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 6, 2015: Astronaut Ron Garan's "Orbital Perspective"

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@MorganRehnberg

)

Special Guest: Astronaut Ron Garan (

orbitalpersepctive.com

/

@Astro_Ron

) Ron will talk about his new book

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles.

This Week's Stories:

Obama's NASA budget request

Black Holes Do Not Exist Where Space and Time Do Not Exist, Says New Theory

SES Rethinking Being First to Fly on a Full-Throttle Falcon 9

5 Lunar X-Prize Teams Land Payday; Only 2 Landed Hardware

Moroccan Meteorite May Be a 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of Martian Crust

After Canceling NRO Launch Competition, USAF Dangles More Plums for SpaceX

Where is Saturn? VLBA Used to Accurately Measure Position of Saturn and its 62 Moons

SpaceX Nears Pad Abort Test for Human-Rated Dragon Capsule

Closer Look at the IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle

Skylon Spaceplane's Inventor Sees Busy Spaceports Coming Soon

SpaceX Conducts Static Fire Test Ahead of DSCOVR Mission

Supernova Mystery Found at the Bottom of the Sea

NASA Does an About Face on SOFIA: Requests Full Funding

LightSail Test Flight Scheduled for May 2015

Mining the Moon Becomes a Serious Prospect

TWiM: NASA Presses Congress for More Commercial Crew Funding

A Second Ringed Centaur? Centaurs with Rings Could Be Common

Rosetta Swoops In for a Close Encounter

Super Sizing Pegasus for SLS Core Transport

TWiM: SpaceX Drone Boats Named After Sci-Fi Legend's Spaceships

It's Official: We're On the Way to Europa

McCain Accuses USAF of "Actively Keeping Out" SpaceX

Europe Tired of Playing "Simon Says" with SpaceX

Business on the Moon: FAA Backs Bigelow Aerospace

Mystery of the Universe's Gamma-Ray Glow May Be Solved

New Infrared View of the Trifid Nebula Reveals New Variable Stars Far Beyond

Gap Reveals Potential Exomoon

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