Happy New Year. It’s time for another look at space news, I reckon, so once more my special guests are space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk from Flinders University, and astrophysicist and founder of SpaceAustralia.com Rami Mandow.
In this episode we talk about Mars, including its role as both a source of aliens and as a potential new home for humans. That does mean we dissect Elon Musk’s comments about colonising Mars.
We also talk about the space debris that fell on Kenya earlier this month— or was it something else? And we discuss Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle which failed to launch on Monday, the future of human civilisation, early science fiction, O’Neill cylinders, and the pronunciation of Uranus.
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