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April 2019

Update

A free email newsletter of the Oklahoma Space Alliance

Oklahoma Space Alliance

A Chapter of The National Space Society

Vernal Equinox from Space

April OSA Meeting

Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:00 PM

Cliff & Claire McMurray's House

2715 Aspen Circle, Norman, OK 73072 405-863-6173

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Quote of the Month

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

-- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

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Table of Contents

Vernal Equinox from Space ........................................................................................................ 1 January 2019 OSA Meeting ....................................................................................................... 1 Quote of the Month................................................................................................................... 1 Table of Contents....................................................................................................................... 2 India's Antisatellite Test Created Debris Which Could Threaten ISS........................................... 3 There's an Arms Race in Space...............................................................................................................4

Hague and Ovchinin Reach ISS Five Months Late ....................................................................... 5 Virgin Galactic Flies With a Passenger For the First Time...................................................................6

SpaceX's 'Starhopper' Starship Prototype Makes Its First (Tethered) Hop ................................. 7 Powerful Bering Sea Fireball Spotted from Space in NASA Photos ............................................. 8 Water on Asteroid Bennu 'Exhibit A' for Space Mining .............................................................. 9 New Report Shows Moon Mining is Feasible ........................................................................... 10 Morgan Stanley Considers Space Investment Possibilities...............................................................11

Amazon Plans 3,000+ Satellite Constellation for Internet Services................................................12

Vostok Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky Dies at 84.................................................................................13

Did Yuri Gagarin Say He Didn't See God in Space?.....................................................................14

NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott Follows Alan Bean's Path as Artist in Retirement...........................15

NASA Directed to Put Boots on the Moon by 2024...........................................................................16

Feature-length video: Neil Armstrong Interview..............................................................................17

That's All Folks ......................................................................................................................... 18

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Oklahoma Space Alliance

Update

Editor

April 13, 2019

Cliff McMurray

India's Antisatellite Test Created

Asst Editor

Claire McMurray

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Debris Which Could Threaten ISS

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Cliff McMurray

Update Editor

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Kirby Ikin

On March 27, India conducted "Mission Shakti", its first ASAT test, destroying its target, an Indian satellite named Microsat-R, at an altitude of 168 miles. India claimed the debris would soon reenter and pose no threat, but NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says otherwise.

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There's an Arms Race in Space

India's ASAT test is only one of many worrying signs that space may soon become a battleground. Two new studies by prominent Washington think tanks, "Space Threat Assessment 2019" from the Center of Strategic and International Studies; and "Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment" from the Secure World Foundation, provide details.

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Hague and Ovchinin Reach ISS Five Months Late

NASA astronaut Nick Hague Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin finally made it to orbit (this time with NASA astronaut Christina Koch) on March 14, again riding a Soyuz launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was the second successful launch of a Soyuz capsule since the abort that ended Hague and Ovchinin's first flight on Oct. 11.

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