We had no guest scheduled this week, so it was an hour of news, news, and more news. Read More
Weekly Space Hangout: January 12, 2022 — Dr. Scott Bellamy, Mission Manager for NASA’s DART Mission and Europa Clipper
This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Scott Bellamy to the WSH. Scott is the Mission Manager for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission which successfully launched in the early morning hours from Vandenberg atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on November 24, 2021. Read More
Weekly Space Hangout: January 5, 2022 — Astronaut Nicole Stott, Author of Back to Earth: What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet — And Our Mission To Protect It
To ring in 2022 on Weekly Space Hangout we are pleased and excited to welcome Nicole Stott to the show. Nicole is an astronaut, aquanaut, artist, mom, and now author of her first book Back to Earth: What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And Our Mission To Protect It. She creatively combines the awe and wonder of her spaceflight experience with her artwork to inspire everyone’s appreciation of our role as crewmates here on Spaceship Earth. Read More
Weekly Space Hangout: December 29, 2021 — Do Black Holes Grow as the Universe Expands? Dr. Kevin Croker Explains Cosmological Coupling
In our final episode of 2021 we are excited to welcome Dr. Kevin Croker from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa! Kevin led a team that compared data from simulated black hole mergers with that from gravitational waves detected by the LIGO–Virgo collaboration. This comparison led to a surprising conclusion: ignoring the expansion of the universe may be limiting the scientific understanding of black-hole physics. The team hypothesizes that that as the universe expands outward following the Big Bang, all objects with mass grow as well – and Black Holes are no exception. This new process has been dubbed “Cosmological Coupling.” Read More