Apollo 10 @50 Observed as International Entities Plan 21st Century Moon Missions
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May 13 — NewSpace: Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin unveils 
May 13 — USA: NASA Officials give statements to 
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Mars (W), Jupiter (SE), Saturn (S); Morning Planets: Venus (E).
Humans to Mars Summit Coincides With Forum For New Leaders
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May 13 — Rob and Terry Ryan Foundation, W. M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela HI: Astronomy Talk: Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars; by Courtney Dressing of UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, at HPA 19:00.
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The Humans to Mars Summit 2019 opens May 14-16 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Tentative speakers include NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (L) and Ellen Stofan, Director of the National Air and Space Museum. Jan Woerner, Director-General of ESA, will deliver an address via Skype. Opening addresses will be given by Chris Carberry and Artemis Westenberg (R) the Explore Mars CEO and CEO Emeritus. A session titled Beyond Apollo will ask whether a lunar landing in 2024 can help enable a human Mars mission in the 2030’s. NASA aims to send humans to Mars orbit by 2033, though a report by the Science and Technology Policy Institute claims the latter year is unfeasible. In a session on Surface Operations Paul Wooster, the Principal Mars Development Engineer of SpaceX, will talk of plans to land on Mars early. Pascale Ehrenfreund of Germany DLR will add updates from the InSight mission. At lunch in the National Academy of Sciences courtyard, space journalist Leonard David will unveil his new book ‘Moon Rush’. Kim Binsted of University of Hawai’i HI-SEAS will contribute to a session on analog missions. Avi Loeb of Harvard University will talk about exploring beyond Mars. In October the National Academy of Sciences will be venue for a joint China-USA Forum for new leaders in space science. (Image Credits: NASA, National Air and Space Museum, ESA, Explore Mars)TUESDAY
May 14-16 — Explore Mars, Inc., Washington DC: 2019 Humans to Mars Summit; focusing on the goal to land humans on Mars within two decades; featuring Buzz Aldrin, Jim Bridenstine, Tom Stafford, Ellen Stofan, Alan Stern, Rebecca Keiser, Roya Mahboob, Ann Merchant.
May 14-16 — University of Arizona, MMT, Tucson AZ: Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) 40th Anniversary Symposium.
May 14-17 — Grenoble University Space Center, French National Space-borne Remote Sensing Program, Grenoble, France: Grenoble NewSpace Week Workshop.
WEDNESDAY
May 15 — SpaceX, Launch Falcon / Starlink 1, SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS FL: SpaceX Falcon to launch first batch of satellites for SpaceX Starlink broadband network; launch window 22:30-24:00.
May 15 — Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA: Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series: Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons; by Ross Beyer of SETI, 19:00.
May 15-16 — National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Space Studies Board of U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Beijing, China: 9th Forum for New Leaders in Space Science.
May 15 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 JN2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
THURSDAY
May 16-17 — University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland: Spring Workshop on Gravity and Cosmology.
May 16 — Moon: 7.1° NNE of Spica, 02:00.
FRIDAY
May 17 — Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES), Hilo HI: 2019 Women’s STARS (STEM Aerospace Research Scholars) Program Applications Due.
May 17-20 — Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, National Time Service Center, Xi’an, China: International Workshop on Astrochemistry 2019.
May 17 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 JG1: Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
May 17 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 GT1: Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
SATURDAY
May 18 — Apollo 10 50th Observation, Nationwide USA: Fourth crewed Apollo mission and second to orbit Moon, Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, Eugene A. Cernan to be honored today as plans for Human Moon Landings within 5 years advance.
May 18 — Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Astronomical Society, Los Angeles Sidewalk Astronomers, The Planetary Society, Los Angeles CA: Griffith Observatory Public Star Party; 14:00-21:00.
May 18-19 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA: “Explore JPL“; 08:30-16:00.
May 18 — Moon: Full Blue (Flower Moon), 11:10.
May 18 — Venus: 1.08° SSE of Uranus, 07:00.
May 18 — Apollo Asteroid 2012 KT12: Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)
May 18 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 JR1: Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
SUNDAY
May 19 — International Space Elevator Consortium, Online / Seattle WA: Abstracts Due: 2019 Space Elevator Conference: Outreach and Early Experimentation Support; to be held Aug 16-18.
May 19-21 — USA Dept. of Commerce, Connecticut District Export Council, Hartford CT: International Space Trade Summit.
May 19-22 — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), Montréal, Québec, Canada: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope 12th Users’ Meeting.
May 19 — Moon: 7.8° NNE of Antares, 11:00.