The Cosmic Companion VIP Newsletter April 6, 2021 - Yuri's Night with Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, the First American Woman to Walk in Space

This week marks 60 years of human spaceflight, and the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle. We talk with Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, who helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope

This week, we look forward to Yuri's Night. Monday, April 12th marks the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight, as well as the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the Space Shuttle. We will visit with three-time Shuttle astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. She also just became the first woman to ever visit the deepest spot in the Earth's ocean.

But first, we discuss Yuri's Night, and look forward to the return of humans to the Moon. We learn about the International Lunar Research Station, a new plan by Russia and China to place dozens of people on the lunar surface on a permanent basis in the coming years. We will also take a look at the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, one of NASA's next-generation space telescopes, which will soon search our galaxy for unknown worlds. Finally, we venture near the outskirts of our solar system, where we see X-rays coming from Uranus for the first time.

Here’s tomorrow’s episode of the show, in an advanc…