#112 - October 2021 Part 2

AWESOME ASTRONOMY

The Discussion:

• Tales from a dark sky weekend
• Jen appearing on the Cosmic Companion and at the Open University Space Society
• Emails on space tourism and from a US state penitentiary

The News:

• NASA gets ready to test an asteroid redirect mission
• Shatner in space
• Mixed fortunes in the news for Bezos & Musk
• The James Webb Space Telescope is still on track for a December launch

The news discussion: NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

Moons of the Solar System: Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the solar system’s moons. This month we complete this segment with a look at moons around asteroids and the tantalising glimpses of moons around planets outside our solar system.