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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!

In the news we have new images of Mercury, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online and the Venezuela space program. Main topic if of course the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

Interview with Andrew Petro of NASA’s Innovative Project Partnership at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Interesting interview that covers NASAs role in private space. There is a new market being born here and it is not NASA vs everyone else but rather how NASA can help everyone else. [...]

This is the post Pixel flight interview with John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

This is the second launch attempt of Armadillo Aerospace’s MOD rocket at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. In order to win the challenge the rocket must fly twice within the specified time. Here is the first flight:

And here is the second flight which won Armadillo first place in [...]

This is the launch attempt of TrueZer0’s Ignignokt rocket for the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. After the failure, the vehicle was unable to launch again to attemp a second flight.

This is the first launch attempt of Armadillo Aerospace’s MOD rocket at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.  This particular launch ended early with the MOD touching the pad about 30 seconds too soon.  As such it was not a qualifying launch for the level 1 prize.

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Soyuz TMA-13 goes up, docks and fixes a toilet. The ISS is getting a makeover, and part of that is to add another toilet. SpaceX has some new contracts going out… and… The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge is BACK ON for October 24th and 25th, 2008!!! SpaceVidcast will be there to cover the event live.

SpaceX is the only private company to ever reach earth orbit with their Falcon 1 rocket. This is the FULl 40 minute webcast from about T-10 minutes until well after SECO. We didn’t want to cut out the chorus of cheering after the SpaceX crew realized that they had just made history!

Johnson Space Center closes, ask Stephen Hawking a question, clean solar power looked at on Discovery Channel and we have one of the coolest opportunities yet!! Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge by X PRIZE Foundation has asked us to webcast for the upcoming Oct. 24-25 2008 event. Awesome! See what that’s all [...]

William Pomerants, Director of Space Projects at the X PRIZE Foundation will be joining us live this Friday, August 29th at 2:00am UTC. For those in the United States that is Thursday, Auguest 28th at 7:00pm Pacific time, 9:00pm Central time or 10:00pm Eastern time. We hope to see you there at http://www.spacevidcast.com/live

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 October 4th, 2004 SpaceShipOne was the first private vehicle to make it in to space and after a second successful flight won the Ansari X-Prize.

On July 28th, 2008 WhiteKnightTwo rolled out on the runway with SpaceShipTwo getting ready for a 2009 rollout. These new crafts will enable for the first time in human history privatized space travel. Anyone, you included, will be able to reach low earth orbit and experience weightlessness. This will forever change the course of human exploration.

This is the story of Virgin Galactic.