Seeking the Killer Space App with Space Tango

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Organizations are using the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to develop unique new products. One of them is Kentucky-based Space Tango. We’ll meet its chairman and co-founder and the woman who manages its Tangolab. Also, a NASA rep who works with these pioneers. Time magazine has named the Planetary Society’s LightSail its aerospace invention of the year! Society CEO Bill Nye is grateful to all who have been part of the project. Bruce Betts provides a solar sail update at the top of this week’s What’s Up, and wishes Mat a happy 17th anniversary of Planetary Radio. Learn more and go inside Space Tango at: https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1127-2019-space-tango.html

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0:00.0	Hemp in space? How about beer? That's this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Society, with more of a human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	Kentucky-based Space Tango is actually conducting international space station research on far more than the
0:25.1	catchy items in my opening line, we'll talk with co-founder Chris Kimmel and others
0:30.4	about the burgeoning effort to find the killer app or product for production at
0:35.8	ZeroG. Happy anniversary to us.
0:39.2	Bruce Betts will help me celebrate 17 years of planetary radio in this week's what's up.
0:45.0	He'll also give us a light sale to update.
0:47.7	Light sale is also why we'll be joined by Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye the Planetary Guy right after we check in with the downlink.
0:56.3	The Planetary Society's weekly collection of the top headlines in space exploration, presented
1:01.6	by our editorial director Jason Davis.
1:05.0	The Insight Lander on Mars keeps plugging or pounding away.
1:09.6	With help from the craft's robotic arm, the long trebled mole heat probe is once again hammering itself
1:16.0	below the surface of the red planet.
1:19.5	Boeing has put its CST 100 Starliner spacecraft on top of an Atlas 5 rocket.
1:25.0	With luck, it will make its first voyage to the ISS in December,
1:29.1	San's human crew.
1:30.8	I'll also note that SpaceX hopes to fly a test of the crew dragon capsule's escape system next month.
1:37.0	Meanwhile a prototype of that company's Starship blew its top a few days ago.
1:42.0	SpaceX says the mishap shouldn't delay development of the huge vehicle.
1:47.0	Lastly, scientists have for the first time directly detected water vapor above Europa,
1:52.0	using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
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