#96 - June 2020 Part 2

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Discussion</span>:</p> <ul> <li>Struggling to get the media excited about astronomy</li> <li>How history will record the clusterf**k that is 2020</li> <li>Skyrora looking to join the smallsat launch market</li> <li>SpaceX’ Teletubby costumes</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The News</span>: Rounding up the space exploration news this month we have:</p> <ul> <li>Starship prototype goes Kablooey</li> <li>Britain returns to rocketry</li> <li>Goodbye to Japan’s ISS resupply spacecraft</li> <li>The European Space Agency look to ‘natural resources’ for moonbases</li> <li>Virgin Orbit attempt to slash the cost of launching to Low Earth Orbit</li> <li>NASA chooses 3 commercial consortia to develop lunar landers</li> </ul> <p>Main news story: American commercial crewed launches have finally arrived</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Q&A</span>: <em>Will the Lunar Gateway be visible from Earth?</em> From Alex Bell @BLT_Astro on Twitter.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Electromagnetic Spectrum</span>: The near and mid-infrared part of the spectrum. How it became so important for astronomy and by whom.</p>