Dealing With Moon Dust
• NASA is going back to the moon but before it does, it has to figure out how to work with the dirt on the lunar surface.
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When it comes to human space exploration, we’re on the brink of something big.
Astronauts are about to make the leap from low-earth orbit to destinations never before explored by humans — deep space, asteroids and, ultimately, Mars.
New probes and rovers are leading the charge, helping us understand our solar system so we can put humans on new worlds.
Join host Brendan Byrne, space reporter at 90.7 WMFE in Orlando, Fla., as he explores the advances in human space exploration. From conversations with the engineers and scientists building the technology one day heading to Mars, to talks with visionaries and leaders who want to take humankind to deep space, the Are We There Yet? podcast reveals the next chapters in human space exploration.
Listen by clicking on the episodes below, on the WMFE mobile app, or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Spotify or RSS Feed.
• NASA is going back to the moon but before it does, it has to figure out how to work with the dirt on the lunar surface.
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• Hardware for SpaceX’s Commercial Crew program and NASA’s SLS rocket have arrived at Kennedy Space. Elon Musk continues work on his Starship rockets.
It’s been a busy few weeks in space news.
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• Scientists have captured an image of a black hole swallowing a star. The findings are shedding light on the mystery of black holes. How does this event help us better understand our universe?
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• If you want to live on Mars, you’ll have to eat bugs. That’s according to new research published by a team of University of Central Florida scientists in the journal New Space.
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• India’s attempt to land a rover on the moon appears to have ended in failure. The Indian space agency lost contact with the lander during a touchdown attempt earlier this month. It follows the landing failure of another mission — SpaceIL’s attempt to land the Beresheet spacecraft on the moon earlier this year. So what makes these lunar missions so hard?
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• Last week, the Space Command came online. It’s what’s known as a combatant command group within the U.S. military and serves as a way to streamline the nation’s space military assets. We speak with Republican Congressman Mike Waltz about the Command and the future of warfare in space.
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• A spacecraft the size of a passenger van is orbiting an asteroid nearly 100 million miles away. As the OSIRIS-REx mission sends back images and data, scientists are learning the asteroid is not what they expected.
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