This Week In Space

This week in space, a Chinese startup makes history by reaching space, SpaceX's test Mars ship hops, and we discuss who the winners and losers will be of the new space internet race.

This week in space, bickering at the White House, China deorbits the Tiangong 2 station, and we talk about the legacy of Apollo.

This week in space, Arianespace loses a Vega rocket during launch, India prepares to be the fourth country on the moon, and a surprising NASA change of leadership offers insight into internal conflict in the agency.

This week in space, a study supports a space telescope to protect us from asteroids, NASA releases contracts for most parts of the Artemis mission, and we discuss how rocket reuse has been changing the industry in unexpected ways.

This week in space, NASA approves an ambitious mission to explore Saturn's moon Titan with a quadrotor drone, SpaceIL sets their sights even higher after sort of reaching the moon, and we discuss how much we can risk human lives in space.

This week in space, Falcon Heavy launches 24 payloads, including a solar sail, everyone blames everyone as NASA funding gets contraversial, and a commercial company demonstrates refueling in space! This Week in Space is now back for the summer quarter, with more news and analysis than ever!

This week in space, NASA funds commercial lunar landers in 2020 and 2021, Northrup discovers PR is hard after a test anomaly, and we discuss the controversy surrounding the light pollution from SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

This week in space, NASA inexplicably gets funded to develop nuclear rockets, the battle for Air Force contracts gets intense, and we discuss how to get Congress to pay for space with someone who just lobbied them.

This week in space, NASA deflects asteroids, Japen sends robots to space to fight, and NASA announces the human return to the Moon: Project Artemis.

This week in space, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin unveils ambitious moon plans, scientists reconsider the possibility of life on Mars, and we discuss US cooperation, or lack thereof, with China.

This week in space, years of fraud are uncovered that led to several launch failures, water on asteroids is much more common than we thought, and we discuss an audacious plan by Pepsi to place adverts in the sky.

This week in space, NASA makes a safe decision under schedule pressure, Japan shoots an asteroid and we discuss how China spies using American satellites.

This week in space, NASA releases more moon plans, SpaceX's Dragon capsule suffers a dramatic failure, and we discuss the implications of a new report that calls NASA's Journey to Mars implausible at best.

This Week In Space, Japan creates on-demand meteor showers, NASA and Russia bicker, and a discussion on how NASA can reform contracting. Note: this is an extra-special long episode, which is part of a broadcast on KZSU. Tune in to KZSU Student Hour to check it out!

This week in space, we get Insight onto Mars, NASA selects commercial lunar lander companies, and a panel discussion on the new space race.