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What a beautiful launch!  This is probably one of the smoothest Space Shuttle launches I have ever seen.  We will continue to broadcast 24×7 through this mission at http://www.spacevidcast.com/live Make sure to stop on by and join the chat!  We would love to have you as a regular.

On this episode of SpaceVidcast we talk about a lot of space news!  From contests to win up to $2000 for your space video to winning a seat on Virgin Galactic to fly in to low earth orbit yourself!  Discovery has a new 6 series show on Discovery HD called When We Left the Earth, Extrasolar planets and of course continuing coverage of the Phoenix lander and STS-124 with space shuttle Discovery!

Show Links:
Win $2,000 in the Space Contest - www.spacecontest.org
Win a trip to Low Earth Orbit - https://www.nss.org/cgi-bin/register/tdregister?$Origin=SpaceAmbassadors
When We Left Earth on Discovery - http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/programs/programs.html
8 Things on Extrasolar Planets - http://tinyurl.com/6kbz2v
Phoenix Lander - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images.php
Satellite pics of Phoenix landing - http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080526mrochute.html
Shuttle Discovery GO for launch - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts124
STS-124 to fix ISS toilet: crew is relieved - http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/29/space.toilet.ap
STS-124 Coverage on SpaceVidcast.com this Saturday

The Phoenix Lander is now safely on the surface of Mars. If you missed our coverage you can watch it below, which started about 90 minutes before descent. For pictures taken of the Martian Lander go here: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/gallery.php

Enjoy watching the 7 minutes of terror!

After a 10 month journey Phoenix is ready to land, and with over a 10 minute delay in communications Phoenix will have landed before we even know if the decent has started! Watch the nail biting action as we try and stop a 12,500MPH rover in under 7 minutes!

We are joined by Blair Allen of NASA Edge, a monthly-esq videocast with an inside and outside look of all things NASA. How did Blair start at NASA, how was NASA Edge formed, what can we expect in the future and why isn’t NASA Edge distributed in HD are just a few questions we answer.

In news this week we cover the upcoming Phoenix mission to Mars, STS-124 and her payload, Indonesia launches a rocket in to space, fly through a mars valley, sending satellites to the sun and watch the ISS station fly overhead this week.

Like it or not, space and politics go together like peanut better and jelly and that is the main focus for this weeks show.  Which candidates support NASA, which don’t, or do any of them?

In the news we have a earthrise, sunflares, missing supernovas and catholics can now believe in aliens.  All that and more, oh so much more in this 30 minute edition of SpaceVidcast, episode 008.

Show Links:
Sun flares - http://io9.com/389753/the-sun-is-exploding
Send your name to the moon - http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php
HD earthrise from the moon - http://io9.com/389392/kaguya-satellite-shoots-stunning-earthrise-and-earthset-videos
Missing supernovas - http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_08126_Chandra_Supernova.html
Buy some of Mars?  I don’t think so - http://www.marsshop.com
Lunar investment properties?  Can’t fool me! - http://www.lunarinvestmentproperty.com/
SpaceVidcast paper on space and politics - http://www.spacevidcast.com/politics/
Additional info on the candidates - http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/24/mccain-obama-and-clinton-on-nasa/
Why is space important? - http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/14/what-value-space-exploration/

Our first outdoor edition! We cover space news as well as the future of the SpaceVidcast 24×7x365 video stream.

NASA intern Adam Kimberlin joins us live via Skype to chat about space power and propulsion work that NASA is doing. Can’t do much in space if we can’t power or move the craft!