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Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham dodge space harpoons, discuss whether Mars One will encourage Big Brother in space and report from the Mojave desert on why risk is encouraged at its spaceport. Recorded on location at Astrium, Europe's largest space company, engineer Katherine Bennell and space scientist Ralph Cordey join the Space Boffins to demonstrate how to remove space junk with a flying harpoon. Interview guests include Mars One's Bas Lansdorp, as well as the CEO of the Mojave Air and Space port Stuart Witt, plus David Masten, founder of Masten Space Systems. ... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

More details of the podcast are posted here, and on the Naked Astronomy website.

The sky on 16 Aug 2024

The sky on 16 August 2024
Sunrise
05:50
Sunset
19:43
Twilight ends
21:30
Twilight begins
04:03

12-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

92%

12 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:26 12:57 19:28
Venus 07:33 14:04 20:35
Moon 18:05 22:22 02:42
Mars 00:36 08:09 15:41
Jupiter 00:34 08:05 15:35
Saturn 20:43 02:20 07:58
All times shown in EDT.

Source

This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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42.38°N
71.11°W
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