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- On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr. David Brin.
- A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.
- An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.
- As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a lunar building code.
- A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environment.
- "I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced."
- The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts.
- NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?
- Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question.
- Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket.