Space News Pod

China has successfully sprouted the first-ever seed on the moon, the China National Space Administration reported on Tuesday, after a cotton seed successfully germinated inside a sealed chamber.  https://spacenewspodcast.com

China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing

 SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, is laying off 10 percent of its 6,000-employee workforce. The layoffs are part of a move to streamline the business and cut costs. 

Genetic evidence shows bacteria on the International Space Station are adapting to survive, not to harm

On June 17, the ATLAS survey’s twin telescopes in Hawaii found a spectacularly bright anomaly 200 million light years away in the Hercules constellation. Dubbed AT2018cow or “The Cow,” the object quickly flared up, then vanished almost as quickly. 01-11-2019 https://spacenewspodcast.com

The Hubble Space Telescope’s premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem. 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday blocked two House-passed funding bills that would reopen the federal government and NASA. 

 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy,  a spiral galaxy located at a distance of only three million light-years. 

 Bevy of mysterious fast radio bursts spotted by Canadian telescope

New Habitable Kepler World –“Human Eyes Found It Hidden in the Data”

New dwarf planets point to more evidence that Planet X is real.  01-07-2019

SpaceX is now the #2 most valuable start up in the USA  01-05-2019

SpaceX has fitted the StarShip space craft with 3 dual bell raptor engines! 01-03-2019

China reached a milestone in space exploration on Thursday, landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history, state media announced. 

Juno mission captures images of volcanic plumes on Jupiter's moon Io. Astronaut dials 911 emergency number. 01-02-2019 https://spacenewspodcast.com

 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system. 

Less than 100 years ago Hubble showed that our universe is populated by  galaxies other than the Milky Way. https://spacenewspodcast.com

How did Uranus get flopped onto it's side? New study shows that it could have been from a gigantic Earth

 For the first time in three years, the United States will be able to experience a total lunar eclipse.  https://spacenewspodcast.com

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