Universe University

Professor Alex Roland returns to the program to discuss the future of the Artemis program, SpaceX, and the historical legacy of Apollo. In the last half of the podcast, Roland discusses military history including: anti-satellite weapons, drone warfare, and nuclear war. MUSIC: "Slow Burn" Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com] Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Many hurdles will have to be cleared before the United States can once again land astronauts on the Moon. We may be in a new space race with China but the Artemis II mission could also be the dawn of a new era in space exploration. EDITED BY: Jilyana Solis REFERENCES: "Space Force needs to perpare for an in-person moon conflict with China, new report argues" by Thomas Novelly, Defenseone.com "'We have lost a lot of time', former NASA chief says US needs to start over with moon landing plans or risk losing to China" by Brett Tingley, Space.com MUSIC: "Ossuary 6 - Air" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Nonstop" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Heavy Heart" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Perspectives" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Ossuary 1 - A Begining" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Thunder Dreams" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Infinite Perspective" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Shortly after the first US Moon landing, the Soviet Union placed the first space station in low Earth orbit. While the United States responded with their own "Skylab" station later, the Russian "Salyut" stations would soon surpass them. As the Cold War drew to an end, the massive Soviet "MIR" station would eventually become an international hub for cooperation in outer space. But along the way, many space station crews would face a life and death battle to keep the station in orbit... EDITED BY: Jilyana Solis REFERENCES: "Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station MIR" by Jerry Linenger "The Forgetten Rescue of the Salyut 7 Space Station" ASTRONOMY.com, by Doug Adler October 23, 2020 MUSIC: "Shores of Avalon" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Nonstop" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Lost Time" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Perspectives" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Air" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Ossuary 1: A Beginning" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Crypto" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Pepper's Theme" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the latter half of the 20th century, the "steady state theory" was proposed as an alternative to the controversial big bang theory until a pair of young radio astronomers stumbled upon a strange radio signal coming from every corner of the sky. Their Nobel Prize winning discovery would answer many questions about the big bang... but the dawn of the space age raised some confounding new questions that astronomers are still trying to comprehend. EDITED BY: Jilyana Solis REFERENCES: 'Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos' by Dennis Overbye 'Astronomers Reveal a Cosmic Axis of Evil' by Liverpool John Moores University Astronomy Magazine MUSIC: "Nonstop" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Ossuary 6 - Air" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License "Thunder Dreams" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License "Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License

In the 1920s, the work of the brilliant astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed the universe was expanding. But it was a Belgian preist named Georges Lemaitre who concieved of the idea that the universe began in the distant past. Today, we call this idea the big bang theory. SEE CHRIS GRANT SPEAK IN PERSON: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-grant-at-the-chehalis-flying-saucer-party-tickets-1429748649699?aff=ebdsoporgprofile EDITED BY: Jilyana Solis REFERENCES: 'Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos' by Dennis Overbye 'Hubble, Humason, and the Big Bang: The Race to Uncover the Expanding Universe' by Ron Voller 'The Preist who Proved Einstein Wrong' by Marcelo Gleiser BigThink.com MUSIC: "Nonstop" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Heavy Heart" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License "Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License "Thunder Dreams" Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/License