Episodes

  • A Second Wave of Aurora... But Could There Be a Third?!

    A Second Wave of Aurora... But Could There Be a Third?!
    Oct 17 2024
    We warned you that a second wave of aurora could be coming on last week's show and it did. And there's a chance a third wave could be coming as well. Comet T-ATLAS continues to dazzle in the night time sky. SpaceX has has had an incredible run over the last 10 days. Plus Axiom Space has teamed up with Prada... yes that Prada.

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    46 mins
  • Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Tonight!

    Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Tonight!
    Oct 10 2024
    Severe geomagnetic storms could produce another night of auroral activity like what we experienced in May. Also, there are now two comets lighting up the night sky over the next few days. The HERA spacecraft successfully launched before Hurricane Milton's arrival. JWST has given us valuable information about the formation of stars and their frequency.

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    31 mins
  • Starliner Astronauts Now Officially Have a Ride Home

    Starliner Astronauts Now Officially Have a Ride Home
    Oct 3 2024
    The SpaceX Crew-9 mission has launched and docked with the ISS and the 2 Starliner astronauts have seats for a ride home in February. The two NASA astronauts who were bumped from the Crew-9 mission have spoken about missing out and have been put back into the pool for future possible missions. SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon missions after an issue during the Crew-9 launch. Comet T-ATLAS will soon be visible and possibly during daylight hours.

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    37 mins
  • The Captain Armband Has Been Passed on ISS

    The Captain Armband Has Been Passed on ISS
    Sep 25 2024
    Hurricane Helene has delayed the launch of Crew-9. Russia's Soyuz returned home Monday bringing to Earth Oleg Kononenko who now holds the record for most experienced space-flier. The cosmonaut was in command aboard the ISS and has passed that responsibility off to American Suni Williams. A snowman (or peanut) shaped asteroid narrowly missed Earth on a fly-by. The Perseverance rover captured a strange image on Mars of a striped rock, the first of its kind spotted on Mars. And astronomers have discovered a 23 million light-years long jet blasted from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion years ago.

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    40 mins
  • What If an Astronaut Needs Surgery in Space?

    What If an Astronaut Needs Surgery in Space?
    Sep 19 2024
    This week, Shawn is off and Wes responds to a question sent in by a listener who wants to know what would happen if an astronaut aboard the ISS needed surgery.

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    23 mins
  • A New Dawn for Commercial Space Missions

    A New Dawn for Commercial Space Missions
    Sep 12 2024
    Polaris Dawn has completed its spacewalk. Starliner successfully returned to Earth. October will give us comet A3. WASP-76b has iron winds and rain.

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    32 mins
  • Starliner Prepares to Return Home

    Starliner Prepares to Return Home
    Sep 5 2024
    Boeing's Starliner will return home this weekend with its astronauts still on board the ISS. SpaceX will launch its Crew-9 mission later this month with empty seats to return the Starliner astronauts home in February. Polaris Dawn is now scheduled to launch early Saturday. New evidence suggests that a huge asteroid slammed into Ganymede and altered its surface. The DART mission appears to have created the first ever man-made meteor shower that will visit us for 100 years.

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    32 mins
  • Astronaut Cady Coleman Joins Us

    Astronaut Cady Coleman Joins Us
    Aug 27 2024
    Retired astronaut talks with us to talk about appearing at Dragon Con, her book Sharing Space, her documentary The Longest Goodbye, and her incredible career as an astronaut.

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    35 mins