BONUS STORY STARTS AT 17:37

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China Lands a Reusable Rocket, Spacecraft visit two asteroids up close. How spaceflight makes you older. And using permanent magnets to protect astronauts from radiation. And on Space Bites Plus, extending inflatable tunnels for the surface of Mars.

• 00:00 Intro

• 00:18 China Lands a Reusable Rocket https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rmmx86pdo

• 02:04 Two Close Asteroid Encounters https://www.universetoday.com/articles/another-success-for-hayabusa-2-as-it-completes-a-flyby-of-asteroid-torifune https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758823/n6758838/c10760422/content.html

• 06:11 Milky Way’s Arms Are Bigger Than We Thought https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-milky-ways-arms-reach-out-further-than-we-thought

• 07:36 Spaceflight Makes you Older https://www.universetoday.com/articles/does-space-speed-up-ageing-a-new-study-says-yes

• 10:24 Permanent Magnets Protect Astronauts? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/could-permanent-magnets-protect-astronauts-from-solar-storms

• 13:00 Vote results

• 13:35 Blue Origin’s Plan for LC-36 Repairs https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-return-to-flight

• 15:16 Quasars from Euclid https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-euclid-space-telescope-has-found-31-new-ancient-quasars-including-the-most-ancient-one-ever-foun

• 16:32 JWST's 4th anniversary https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_reveals_millions_of_stars_in_nearby_galaxy

• 17:37 Bonus story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/university-team-proposed-retractable-pressurized-tunnels-for-missions-to-mars

• 20:48 More space news

• 21:14 Final thoughts

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:55

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Will the Sun consume the Earth or not? Should we trade feet for arms to live in microgravity? How good is the peer review process in Astronomy? And in Q&A+, what happened to the Parker Solar Probe?

• 00:00 Intro

• 00:25 [@TimPointing] Will the Sun consume the Earth or not?

• 04:40 [@jeffhans1] Should we trade legs for arms to live in microgravity?

• 07:26 [@vrstovsek] How loud is the Sun?

• 08:21 [@JJsQuest] How good is the peer review process in Astronomy?

• 11:55 [@darrengreen8000] What happened to the Parker Solar Probe?

• 15:07 Interviews

BONUS PART starts at 29:32

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We're pretty familiar with orbits around the Earth. But as we start putting more and more things on the Moon, it means we'll need to cover more and more orbits that go to and around the Moon. And it's actually much trickier than you think.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Aaron Rosengren https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/node/3654

📜 The Astrodynamics Primer on Cislunar and Translunar Space https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26367

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:51 New operating volume in space

• 03:58 Lunar orbits during the Apollo era

• 09:42 Lagrange points

• 14:07 Artemis orbits

• 25:34 Kessler syndrome in cislunar space

• 29:32 Risks of crushing things into the Moon

• 39:00 Current obsessions

• 41:38 Final thoughts