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Some space trash has (finally) come down to Earth, but thankfully didn’t hurt anyone. A Human Right’s document that was started about 60 years ago is not only finished but on it’s way to the ISS. And NASA decided to throw themselves a birthday party. All that plus, in case you want to keep up on the latest Space News, we have all the links you could possibly ask for! On this episode, #0030 of SpaceVidcast!

China Lifts off, Boeing lifts off, a Japanese Internet Tycoon didn’t lift off and he is *not* happy about it! Plus, Some big names in the Space industry sound off. All that and more on this week’s EPICsode!

China Lifts off:
http://www.chinaview.cn/shenzhou7/
english: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080925-china-space.html
Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/09/enomoto_lawsuit
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE48O6HS20080925
50th anniversary [...]

X-Prize, what is it and why do we care? Because someone who wins it is gunna get us off this planet! William Pomerantz, the Director of Space projects for the X Prize Foundation joins us for a great discussion about X-Prize and what it all means. Going to the Moon: Video and [...]

Another privatized space racer, NASA delays their robotic moon mission, and does NASA’s reliance on Russia make it weak? Plus: Who owns the moon anyway? Well, it’s all complicated and all covered in this episode of SpaceVidcast.

On August 11th, 2008 the Hubble Telescope hit the 100,000 orbit mark! Since its launch in April of 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has been traveling at 5 miles per second with its on-board odometer racking up around 2.72 BILLION miles! That’s about 5,700 trips to the moon and back! In October of this year the STS-125 crew will be be working on the 5th and final servicing mission to Hubble. There are currently 5 spacewalks scheduled for Atlantis where astronauts will install new equipment and repair broken instruments. Once this mission is complete, NASA’s favorite telescope will need to live out the remainder of its days alone in space, with no chance of repair. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST.

Did you know that China’s space program had a huge impact on the 2008 Summer Olympics? Much of the same technology that went in to launching their rockets and putting humans in to space was used to produce the opening ceremony. Check it out!

The social network site Bebo.com has allowed its community to create a ground-breaking digital time capsule that will be beamed 120 trillion miles into space. The messages should reach it’s destination by 2029 and if there is intelligent life out there… they *may* send a return message. Or not. But don’t let that stop you.

Up until August 2nd, 2008 Obama’s campaign had talked about delaying Constellation for 5 years and funneling that money instead to a pre kindergarden program. This would have created a full decade long gap in NASAs manned space program. Obama seems to have changed his tune and is now in favor of NASAs program and has instead found other ways to pay for his education program.

The THEMIS mission looks at our Northern Lights to try and find where they come from, an update on the Phoenix Lander and making space robots more intelligent, a new resource to see thousands of stunning images from NASA and should we repurpose the $156 billion dollar International Space Station to explore additional space on [...]