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Sep 15, 2021 1 hr 7 min

#111 - September 2021 Part 2

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The Discussion: Our practical astronomy gathering is back – join us in Wales on 2-5th October Jen is contributing to Andy Oppenheimer's book Stars of Orion Submit your support for Lego to create a clockwork solar system Watch Jen's free online exoplanet talk for the Open University Space Society Emails from our good friends: Casey Ash in Thailand, about the perennial issue of satellite constellations Conor Brian from Texas about the first Martian settlers The News: Ongoing problems with the James Webb Space Telescope as it nears launch. The first NASA Artemis moon mission suffers a setback The International Space Station's new module is now functional Inspiration4 - the first civilian mission to space Commercial rocket companies Astra & Firefly put on the firework show NASA's Perseverance rover collects its first Mars samples for a return to Earth The news discussion: Is commercial spaceflight just a billionaires' plaything? Moons of the Solar System: Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the solar system's moons. This month we reach the last major solar system body to have moons: Pluto.

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