Space News | Virgin Galactic Flight, Hayabusa-2 Samples Ryugu and NASA synthetic DNA

TMRO Audio Edition

English - February 28, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes - 14.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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This week Space Mike brings us the latest Space Traffic in our local Solar System including a Soyuz flight that may have had an anomaly, SpaceX Falcon 9 with a mission to the moon and Virgin Galactic's latest test flight with a first non-test pilot astronaut passenger! And if you would like more information on that SpaceIL update, you can see our Space News episode from February 6th right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8pHwRqRcY&feature=youtu.be&t=647

Jared Head updates us on Hayabusa-2's mission to Ryugu and its sample that will be coming back to Earth in the next couple of years.

Sarah Vincent has a NASA Science update on synthetic DNA

And finally Dr. Tamitha Skov updates on on the latest Space Weather for this week.