This week on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston: Tuesday, November 29. 7 PM PST ( 9 PM CST; 10 PM EST): We welcome TOM GARDNER to the program from Advanced Space to discuss the CAPSTONE Project – Cubesats and the Moon! Wednesday, November 30. The John Batchelor Hotel Mars Program. Please see the Upcoming Show Menu on our home page, www.thespaceshow.com, for details for this week’s program. The […]

PASADENA, Calif. (NASA PR) — When NASA’s Lunar Flashlight launches no earlier than Nov. 30, the tiny satellite will begin a three-month journey, with mission navigators guiding the spacecraft far past the Moon. It will then be slowly pulled back by gravity from Earth and the Sun before settling into a wide science-gathering orbit to hunt for surface water ice inside dark regions on the Moon that haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years.

TOKYO, November 28, 2022 (ispace PR) — ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, announced today that it has completed launch preparations including integration of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander into the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.  

SpaceX launched a resupply ship that delivered a new set of solar panels to the International Space Station (ISS) during a week that saw four launches from the United States, China and India.

China will send a new crew to its space station and SpaceX will launch a private mission to land on the moon for a Japanese company this week. A Chinese company is also set to conduct the maiden launch of a new orbital booster during a week in which six flights are scheduled from three nations.

Virgin Orbit (NASDAQ: VORB) announced last week that it has abandoned plans to sell additional securities “due to current market conditions” amid shrinking cash reserves, a declining stock price, financial losses and regulatory delays in launching satellites.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA is on its way to the International Space Station.

Video Caption: If you’ve learned the art of trying the impossible…you can do the impossible with anything.” #BransonHBO, a four-part @HBO original documentary series chronicling the many adventures and ventures of @RichardBranson, premieres December 1 on @HBOMax.

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch four Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) spacecraft after the original launch provider destroyed the first two in a launch failure.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches to the International Space Station and the moon and the second flight of Europe’s Vega-C rocket have been rescheduled due to various reasons.

LOS ANGELES (Whatnot PR) — Whatnot, the largest live shopping platform in the U.S., today announced the kickoff of its biggest Black Friday shopping event ever, ending with an out-of-this-world opportunity to win a flight to space with Blue Origin.

Happy Thanksgiving! For your holiday enjoyment, I present Turkeys Away! Posts will be light over the four-day holiday weekend. Normal operations will resume on Monday.