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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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• A high-spirited yet cerebral celebration of human space endeavors touches down at Kennedy Space Center this weekend. It’s called “Yuri’s Night.”
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• Florida space industry leaders are trying to secure federal funding to fix a bridge leading to the Kennedy Space Center.
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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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• 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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• An experiment on artificial intelligence is on it’s way to the International Space Station tomorrow morning, weather permitting.
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• President Trump says space dominance is vital to national security. He wants the Department of Defense to establish a new branch of the military – a Space Force. What would a Space Force look like and what would its mission be? With more countries eyeing space for resources and strategic interests – is the call for a Space Force coming at the right time? Joining us on to talk about the possibility of Space Force is Roger Handberg, Laura Forcyk and Brendan Byrne.
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• A University of Central Florida team is designing new ways to keep astronauts safer in space. They’ve designed a kind of fire alarm for space crafts.
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• Andy Aldrin, Director of the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute, talks about the sociological and psychological challenges of living on Mars, and what it was like to grow up with a moon-walking dad.
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