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• The name pays tribute to the legacy of African American women who played a major role in the space race but were long overlooked by history.
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• Former U.S. Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson is joining NASA’s Advisory Council, where he will advise on all major program and policy issues before the agency.
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• SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is set to launch to the International Space Station Saturday at 2:49 a.m., marking a milestone in NASA’s commercial crew program.
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• SpaceX’s launch of its Crew Dragon scheduled for Saturday morning is a milestone for NASA’s commercial crew program.
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• Mars rover Opportunity completed its mission last week, after 15 years of exploration. The mission gave scientists valuable data about the planet’s condition that paves the way for future missions.
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• NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1. Data collected from the flyby provides insight into Earth’s building blocks.
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• The government shutdown has rendered most of the Kennedy Space Center’s 2,000 employees unable to work. The impact of the shutdown on Florida’s Space Coast may turn out to be long-lasting.
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• Chris Ferguson- who flew the shuttle as a NASA astronaut- is headed back to space. This time he’ll be piloting the Boeing Starliner, one of the commercial spacecraft designed to take astronauts into orbit from US soil. Ferguson talks about the mission and the new spacecraft with 90.7’s space reporter Brendan Byrne.
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• For 46 years the Orlando Sentinel has carried photos by Red Huber. Now the veteran visual journalist is retiring. Huber reflects on a career documenting Central Florida, from the shuttle program to the Pulse nightclub shooting, and through all of it, the importance of connecting with the community and telling the stories that need to be told.
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• Parker Solar Probe is set to launch on Aug. 11. Dr. Alex Young, heliophysicist at NASA, sits down with 90.7’s Brendan Byrne to discuss the goals for the mission, which will take the spacecraft to within four million miles of the surface of the sun.
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