Stage Zero Studio with Wil Waldon

China has selected nine scientific experiments — including a project that will probe how DNA mutates in space — to fly on its first major space station, scheduled to be completed in 2022.  Listen to the LIVE show:   https://castbox.fm/h5/live/share/14025507   == MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries avail...

After spending almost 16 years in space, NASA is now preparing to shut down its Spitzer Space Telescope. According to the space agency, the spacecraft will be officially retired in early next year. Spitzer was officially launched on Dec. 18, 2003. Originally, the spacecraft’s mission was to remain in orbit for a maximum of five years. Surprisingly, NASA was able to extend the spacecraft’s function...

The second LIVE episode of the Space News Pod! Please let me know what you think on social media @spacenewspod. ==== MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 1500 documentary movies, series, and exclusive playlists, designed with you in mind. Check out their space genre and exp...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN Business on Thursday that the space agency will need an additional “$20 to $30 billion” over a span of five years to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2024.  ===   MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 1500 docume...

This is a full length #live episode of the Space News Pod where I dig into Mars, the Moon, NASA and other cool space related things! == MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 1500 documentary movies, series, and exclusive playlists, designed with you in mind. Check out their...

There will be 24 Payloads aboard the Falcon Heavy STP-2 launch, including six weather research satellites, each weighing less than 500 pounds. The Planetary Society will also be flying its Lightsail 2 spacecraft aboard this mission. == MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 1...

India plans to have its own space station in the future and conduct separate missions to study Sun and Venus, it said on Thursday, as the nation moves to bolster its status as a leader in space technologies and inspire the young minds to take an interest in scientific fields. India’s space agency said today that it will begin working on its space station following its first manned mission to space...

Tesla hosts their 2019 annual shareholders meeting where they highlight the future of Tesla as a company. We ended the quarter with $2.2 billion of cash and cash equivalents, a $1.5 billion reduction from the end of 2018. This reduction was driven by a $920 million convertible bond repayment and an increase in the number of vehicles in transit to customers at the end of Q1. In addition, we began p...

India plans to join the exclusive group of countries that have successfully landed on the Moon following the launch of its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft next month. Speaking in Bangalore on Wednesday, Indian Space Research Organization Chairman K. Sivan said that the spacecraft will launch from Sriharikota, an island off India's southeastern coast, on July 15. Chandrayaan-2 will carry a lunar land...

Seven months ago, the Defense Department made a controversial call. In a trio of contracts announced on its daily digest of contract awards, the Pentagon announced it was awarding these rocket development contracts: A $967 million deal to United Launch Services, a subsidiary of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) joint venture formed between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE:...

 The first U.S. astronauts chosen to fly aboard a SpaceX capsule built for NASA shrugged off a spate of design and test mishaps, saying such setbacks were “part of the process” and the new technology was far more advanced than the space shuttle program that ended eight years ago.  MagellanTV - a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of science and technology...

President Donald Trump tweeted that the Moon is part of the Mars mission and A MARS HELICOPTER!

NASA also is enabling private astronaut missions of up to 30 days on the International Space Station to perform duties that fall into the approved commercial and marketing activities outlined in the directive released Friday, with the first mission as early as 2020. A new NASA Research Announcement focus area issued today outlines the path for those future private astronaut missions. If supported...

Engineers craft new plan to unstick NASA's Mars InSight lander.  By using InSight's lander arm to lift the support structure of the lander's burrowing mole, engineers aim to get a better look at the blockage. 

Amazon has already exploited the power of AI to dominate e-commerce, push forward the potential of cloud computing and bring an ever-present personal assistant into your home. At its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas this week, Jeff Bezos's corporation intends to shed some light on where it expects artificial intelligence to take us in the future.   The re:Mars conference is effectively the pub...

SpaceX Starship tests on hold in Boca Chica and Starlink makes Astronomers Upset because they may interfere with viewing and radio transmissions. https://spacenewspodcast.com https://twitter.com/spacenewspod https://trumans.com/ use code "spacenewspod" 

In 2020 three rovers, one from the US, one from Europe and one from China will depart for Mars with a single goal; to look for past or present life on The Red Planet. The rovers will also provide a critical step in the efforts to return samples of Martian regolith to the Earth. This would give scientists the opportunity to learn a great many more details about Mars and its habitability, since labo...

 The first 60 v0.9 satellites comprising the Starlink constellation launched into low Earth orbit (LEO) on May 24 have powered up and contacted ground stations. SpaceX said all 60 of its Starlink satellites have deployed their lone solar arrays. Most of these small satellites (smallsats), which weigh some 227 kg each, are in the process of climbing from their current 440 kilometer altitude dr...

Over the last two months, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has repeatedly said the agency's ambitious new Artemis plan for sending humans to the Moon in 2024 will not require raiding other areas of its budget, such as its broad array of science programs, technology research, or aeronautics work. The reason, he said, is simple. The surest way to torpedo support for a program inside the agency is...

NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Each commercial lander will carry NASA-provided payloads that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on t...

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Elon Musk’s second-most famous business may soon top his first. The value of SpaceX has risen to $33.3 billion, people familiar with the company’s recent fundraising. In an amendment of its April fundraising effort, a filing last week from SpaceX showed the company’s latest round brought in $536 million at a price of $204 a share. SpaceX has raised just over $1 billion this year, as the company ac...

As human ancestors went from swinging through trees to walking on two legs, they may have received a boost from an unlikely source: ancient supernovas. These powerful stellar explosions may have showered Earth with enough energy to shift the planet's climate, bathing Earth in electrons and sparking powerful, lightning-filled storms, according to a new hypothesis. Lightning then could have kindled...

Gwynne Shotwell said in a meeting at MIT on the 29th of May that SpaceX will be sending cargo to Mars in 4 Years. Also, 'Fettuccine' may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers report https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast

The governments of the United States and Japan have agreed to further cooperation in space which could include flying Japanese astronauts to the moon. At a joint press conference in Tokyo May 27 with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Donald Trump mentioned cooperation in space exploration as one outcome of their meetings during the president’s visit to the country. "I am pleased to confirm that...