Hi everybody and welcome to the weekly space hangout for May 3rd 2012.

Now with our spiffy new intro graphic thanks to Pamela.

So today we're going to be talking about the shuttle retirement asteroid mining.

Killer Black holes, a new mission to Jupiter, the problems with SpaceX and brown dwarfs.

And we've got some new faces here this week.

So I want to introduce them first.

And I'm just going to start in no particular order except sort of left right for me.

So with Amy Shira Taitel, I hope your brain knows that right, I forgot to ask you a beforehand.

So I'll try to like a book.

Taitel, Taitel, Amy Shira Taitel, who is a blogger at Vintage Space and has done some work for Universe today

and Discovery Space in the past.

Amy.

And we've got Sawyer Rosenstein, who runs the Talking Space podcast and has probably recorded about a million episodes.

A little over 100 but close.

A little over 100, yeah.

But has got a great podcast and if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend you go and check out the Talking Space podcast.

And of course a new last week we've got Jason Major who is a blogger for Lights in the Dark and has done some work on Universe today and Discovery Space.

And we've got, of course, Alan Boyle from MSNBC's Cosmic Log.

We've got Nicole Galucci, the noisy astronomer, and perhaps a new doctor now.

A doctor in the whole of the loopy.

Okay.

That is awesome.

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