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Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines produced the first private mission to land on the moon. The Odysseus lander is just 300 km from the lunar south pole, investigating water ice and demonstrating the capabilities of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS).

But space is difficult and not many projects go perfectly first time. Is Odysseus ok? Let’s find out!

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So we pollute the upper atmosphere with rocket exhaust, is it worth the benefits of communications satellites and GPS? What about space junk? the garbage of earth orbit. Or mining asteroids? who owns the asteroids, can should they be able to sell the minerals asteroids provide?
These are questions that would never have been asked before space travel became as regular as it has today. Let's take a look at this new way of thinking about our responsibilities in space.

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Around the 21st of June every year is the June solstice. We might know that it’s the longest or shortest day of the year – depending on which hemisphere you’re in, but why does that happen? And we know of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, but how does the solstice define them? Same with the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Does it fall on the same date each year? Well almost, but it does take some clever human manipulation of the calendar to keep it that way.

 
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Recently, we took a look at GPS and the space science that makes it work. This time, we're going back to an era when navigators had nothing but their equipment and the stars to tell them where they were, even on the open ocean.
Celestial navigation combined the sextant, almanac and chronometer to make a reliable navigation system that just needed one other thing, the sun and the stars... And some handy astronomical knowledge!
 
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We all love GPS. The Global Positioning System helps us navigate across country and across town, and it also shows us where our rideshare car is, or how far away our food delivery driver is. Take a look at what space science makes it work, and why it can still provide your coordinates even if you're miles away from any phone or data signal or Wi-Fi.
 
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Caroline Herschel is probably best known as the sister of William Herschel, the person credited with the discovery of planet Uranus, but there's a lot more to her than this. Caroline was a great astronomer in her own right, having made numerous discoveries using telescopes she helped make herself. She was also an outstanding musician and was the first female professional astronomer in the world, and was recognised with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Caroline Herschel achieved all this despite the life long effects of a significant childhood illness.
Quite an incredible person.
 
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Go behind the scenes of the 4,000-year-old astronomical calendar in New Hampshire called America’s Stonehenge with caretaker Dennis Stone.  Learn about the multiple manmade chambers and how they mark the solstice on the calendar.  Built by a Native American Culture or a migrant European population? No one knows for sure. A maze of man-made chambers, walls and ceremonial meeting places, at over 4,000 years old America's Stonehenge is most likely the oldest man-made construction in the United States.

Like Stonehenge in England, America's Stonehenge was built by ancient people well versed in astronomy and stone construction. It has been determined that the site is an accurate astronomical calendar. It was, and still can be, used to determine specific solar and lunar events of the year.

Various inscriptions have been found throughout the site including Ogham, Phoenician and Iberian Punic Script. Dr. Barry Fell of Harvard University did extensive work on the inscriptions found at the site. They are detailed in his book America B.C.   This interview was originally recorded in 2016

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Dayna Reggero is a documentary film director and founder of a collaborative storytelling effort called the Climate Listening Project. Kelly Sheehan is the Senior Director of Energy Campaigns for the Sierra Club, where she leads a national effort to advance climate justice and a transition off of fossil fuels. 

With huge strides being made in the quest for climate action and the general wellbeing of the planet, Dayna and Kelly highlight what it will take for the population in the Gulf to have a better lifestyle by making of improvements on as many physical systems as humanly possible so they can survive. 

Also on Speaking of Travel, if you love science and space, join Tim DeIsle, Director of Software Engineering and Melanie Crowson, Director of Education and Astronomy, from the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI). PARI is located in Rosman, NC, and  began as a 1960s NASA station. Today PARI is a nonprofit astronomical observatory specializing in STEM education and dedicated to radio astronomy, archives, satellite communications and research partnerships.

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Dennis Klocek is the author of 11 books covering subjects in Biodynamics, esoteric and alchemical practices, long range weather forecasting, physiology, meditation and more. 

He is the founder of the Coros Institute, a non-profit organization that sponsors dialogues focused on how meditative life impacts one's work in the world. 

He’s had a long standing relationship with Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento, California, where he has been the director of their Consciousness Studies Program, the “Goethean Studies”.

I personally have found him to be the greatest living master on these subjects, that I’ve met.

You can find Dennis and his most recent work at DennisKlocek.com

You can find some of his books at Steiner Books.

Sherry Wildfeuer has been the editor of the Stella Natura biodynamic planting calendar since 1978 and is a long-term co-worker in Camphill Village (an intentional agricultural community that especially includes adults with developmental disabilities) in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. She is an adult educator and an active member of the Anthroposophical Society and its Agriculture Section.

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