2023.12.13 | Defying Gravity: From Kitty Hawk to Jezero Crater

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 December 2023:

Space News:

* Neumann Space electric propulsion engine successfully tested in space aboard an unidentified Skykraft 3 air traffic control satellite.

* Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket is scheduled to launch the Earth-imaging satellite QPS-SAR-5

* Sydney based company HEO is a space technology company delivering on-demand non-Earth imagery and intelligence on spacecraft of interest so that space players can confidently act in space and on Earth.

Planet Earth — Season 4 Episode 57:

How the European Space Agency is contributing to the Global Stocktake for the Paris Climate Accords meeting in Dubai. (Audio insert courtesy ESA)

NASA’s Message in a Bottle:

Have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life.

From Kitty Hawk to Jezero Crater:

Marking the 120th anniversary of the four flights by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, how they led to today's aviation industry, and how parts of the Flyer went to the Moon and Mars. Told in diary entries and narration.

Skylab 4 with Joe Kerwin:

Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin sets the record straight on the so-called Skylab 4 'strike' that occurred 50 years ago. (To be continued next week). (Audio insert recorded by Peter Aylward, Space Association of Australia)