This Week In Space

Astronauts return to a socially isolated planet, stars move in mysterious ways, and we discuss recent news on docking mechanisms.

This week in space, Rocket Lab catches a rocket with a helicopter, China suffers a second launch failure of the year, and we discuss the long-term impacts of the novel coronavirus on the industry.

This week in space, Covid-19 shocks the space industry, NASA finally releases new Artemis planning info, and the cast of TWIS apply to be astronauts.

This week, we ask when we're going back to space, who will get to go to Mars, and other big questions about the future of space travel. Tune in for your weekly list of Boeing errors and NASA updates.

Mice acquire muscles, Boeing has (yet another) bad week, and explosions are having a moment in the spotlight.

We discuss Olay's new commercial, consider the implications of the Space Force's swearing-in process, and learn about NOAA's goal to get better weather forecasting.

This week in space, Boeing can't catch a break and we take a look back at the 2010s.

This week in space, more details emerge about private lunar landers, astronaut blood flows backwards, and Boeing has a no good, very bad day.

This week in space, we talk about what the election means for the future of space policy. Also, aliens, apparently.

This week in space, the ISS gets commercial, astronauts bake cookies, and we discuss how the 2020 election season shapes the future of the Artemis moon program.

This week in space, we discuss the fallout from the world's largest space convention with an SSI member who was there!

This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how astronauts get fed.

This week in space, NASA finally gets somebody in charge of human spaceflight, ESA admits its rockets are too expensive, and ... NASA holds a fashion show? We discuss what that means.

This week in space, NASA and SpaceX hug and make up, all ships will be watched by commercial spy satellites, and we discuss what ongoing repairs to the ISS say about the future of the station.

This week in space, NASA makes some compromises on their lunar lander, Relativity Space receives a frightening amount of funding, and we discuss the past and future of commercial space tourism.

This week in space, NASA goes back to the old style of contracting, Russia and China team up to go to the moon, and Elon unveils his Starship and everyone has questions.

This week in space, the Vice President gets excited about space nuclear propulsion, yet another internet constellation annoys astronomers, and we sit down with the head of an ambitious effort to reach space with a liquid rocket ... using only volunteer college students.

This week in space, Blue Origin is preemptively angry about a launch contract, Cape Canaveral braces for an eye-watering amount of launches, and we sit down with a space 3D printing expert to talk about how the technology will change the industry.

This week in space, SpaceX muscles in on the smallsat market, Rocket Lab considers reuseability, and we discuss the coming consolidation in launch and what it means for the industry as a whole.

This week in space, France puts its space lasers where its mouth is, NASA acknowledges Starship, and a technical debate about in-space refueling is actually about seedy politics and the future of space exploration.