Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 6: Abigail "Astronaut Abby" Houston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1TsL0R1Ns Streamed live Jan 06, 2017. Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: This week's guest is Abigail "Astronaut Abby" Harrison ( http://astronautabby.com/ / @AstronautAbby ). Abigail is the founder of The Mars Generation nonprofit. Currently a sophomore at Wellesley College in Massachusetts majoring in Astrobiology and Russian. Harrison is positioned to enter a PhD program upon graduation and continue her pursuit of becoming a scientist, astronaut and member of the first human crew to land on Mars in the 2030’s. Hundreds of thousands of supporters from around the world follow her journey to becoming an astronaut via the blog Harrison authors at AstronautAbby.org. Regular Guests: Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz ) Yoav Landsman ( @MasaCritit ) This week's stories: - Dave Dickinson's new book! "101 Astronomical Events for 2017" - This week in Musk! SpaceX's latest launch slips to Saturday, Jan 14th... - NASA planetary missions scheduled! - TESS to launch in late '17 or early '18. - Cassini mission ends. :^( - New Horizons does a KBO fly-by at the end of 2018. - OsirisRex does an Earth fly-by Sept 22. - JUNO mission ends in '18. - Mars INSIGHT launches in '18. - JWST launches in '18 also. - Discovery Class missions to asteroids to launch! 16 Psyche & LUCY visits the Trojans! - GLXP competition heats up! - UAE is set to launch Mars HOPE mission in 2020. Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!