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FOX 35 Orlando •

A Falcon 9 rocket stage will soon crash into the moon

A Falcon 9 rocket stage is expected to crash into the moon early August 5th. The rocket originally launched January 2025 and carried two commercial lunar landers. Without enough fuel to get deeper into space or closer to Earth, the dead rocket stage floated uncertainly until it entered a crash trajectory towards the moon. FOX 35's Garrett Wymer speaks with FOX 35's Orion Boone about what scientists stand to learn from this crash.
FOX 35 Orlando •

A new post-grad salary test for federal student loans

Starting this month, the U.S. Department of Education will start rolling out an "accountability test" that universities and colleges will have to pass as a part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. FOX 35's Orion Boone speaks with Jessica Wensel, Associate Director of Employer & Alumni Connections at Rollins College, about what this means for deg...
FOX 35 Orlando •

NASA wants volunteers to live on "Mars" for a year

NASA wants volunteers to spend a year isolation simulating human life on Mars, using the data to inform their future moon base. The Moon and Mars Exploration Analog is a simulation taking place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in confined habitats that simulate flying to the destination, as well as the surface of Mars. FOX 35's Orion Boone speaks with Ken Kremer, the Founding and Managing Editor of Space UpClose, about what this mission entails.
Central Florida Public Media •

Women in space and meal planning for space travel

During the Artemis II mission, Christina Koch became the first woman to travel to the moon. Before Artemis, she was a flight engineer on the International Space Station for Expedition 59, 60 and 61 back in 2019. During her time on the space station, Koch participated in the first all-female spacewalk. She has spent 338 days in space across during her time as a NASA astronaut.Koch’s role in the Artemis II mission follows in the footsteps of other women in space exploration firsts like Eileen Coll...
The Charge •

WATCH: How a UCF student began his draglesque journey, made debut at Extravaganza Knight

With the song "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor blaring on the speakers, Jay Ayuk made his draglesque debut, blending the art of drag and burlesque.On Jan. 15 at Extravaganza Knight, a collaboration between Color Me Queer and Lavender Council celebrating the LGBTQ+ community through performance, Jay Ayuk, junior event management major, had spent months helping plan the event. Somewhere along the way, his plans shifted. 
"Something within me was telling me I want to perform," Ayuk said. "...
Central Florida Public Media •

Asteroid mining and space hospitality

Mining asteroids could shift from science fiction to reality, driven by the need for off-Earth resources.Phillip Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of CentralFlorida, said the reasons to mine in space are many – sci-fi fantasies, AI and geopolitical boasting to name a few -- but the real hold up has been economic need.“For decades now, it has not been a technological barrier,” Metzger said. “We've had the ability to do it. It's always been an economic barrier and a political barrie...
The Charge •

Color Me Queer Rest as Resistance VO

Anchors: Austin Lamanna
Producer: Sabrina Hansen

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Central Florida Public Media •

Artemis Two is back on Earth and a new moonshot is underway

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and beaches near the Kennedy Space Center, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch Systems rocket take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center April 1.Our host, Brendan Byrne, was there through it all. From launch to splash down, he reported on the crew’s journey.Hear more about Byrne’s coverage of Artemis II and more about the mission in the newest transparency corner.Along with captivating the public, Artemis II is inspi...
Central Florida Public Media •

Moon science and Curious Space

This is the first episode of Space on Tap, a special "Are We There Yet?" event series. It's a live, semi-scripted space-science show. This episode was held at Judson's Live in Orlando on March 23. NASA’s Artemis program could hit a big milestone as soon as April 1 with the launch of the Artemis II mission. It will be the first human mission to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.There’s fresh excitement about a new human moon mission, but for Kerri Donaldson Hanna and Addie Dove from the University...
Central Florida Public Media •

Scientists at UCF are making moon dirt for lunar chickpeas

NASA is getting closer to sending humans back to the moon through its Artemis program, and understanding the environment and the dirt on the moon is crucial. Humans will be spending time there, living and working on the lunar surface.However, access to dirt from the moon is extremely limited. Since people can’t grab moon dirt and come back to Earth, lunar regolith is made synthetically in labs.At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, managed by the Florida Space Institute, technicians...
Central Florida Public Media •

A lost lunar mission and space travel impacts on reproduction

A mission to study water on the moon is lost in space.Lunar Trailblazer went dark shortly after launch, and a new report sheds light on what went wrong.We’ll speak with science journalist, Joe Palca, about what we know about Lunar Trailblazer and how other missions might learn from its mistakes.Then, how does space travel affect reproduction? A group of mice, and their grandkids, are helping answer that question after a brief stay aboard the International Space Station.We’ll speak with Universit...
The Charge •

Lunar New Year Market VOSOT

Anchor: Luis Perez
Producer: Shane Winsten

The Charge On Air is a product of the Nicholson School of Communication's Film and Mass Media Department's Journalism Program. The show is a student-produced, faculty-advised, venture.

For the latest news our students are reporting on visit: http://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/
For additional information about the school visit: https://communication.ucf.edu/

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Video Location: UCF Nicholson School of Communication and Media (NSC)
Central Florida Public Media •

Detecting plastics from space and how rovers can think for themselves

NASA is studying minerals, dust, and potentially plastics, on land from space.On board the International Space Station, NASA has an instrument named EMIT that studies minerals and dust that impact the Earth’s atmosphere.Kelly Luis, the EMIT aquatic applications lead said the instrument uses an imaging spectrometer to study minerals and dust -- and how that interacts with sunlight.“When that light bounces back to an instrument or detector, it has a very specific spectral fingerprint, Luis said. “...
Central Florida Public Media •

Central Floridians remember civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at age 84. His slogan “I am somebody” echoes in Central Floridian’s minds.Jackson advocated for decades for a number of issues surrounding the lives of African Americans, including voting rights, education, economic equality and healthcare.Jackson’s civil rights work spanned six decades, including work with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rainbow coalition, and two presidential campaigns.Despite health challenges, he continued his activism into his eighti...
Central Florida Public Media •

Moon science, a deeper look at one of Jupiter’s moons and our own

Millions of miles from our planet, scientists think that one planetary body could harbor life.Europa is an icy moon, with an ocean underneath its surface. It’s one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, and it’s slightly smaller than Earth’s.Within Europa’s icy waters is where scientists think they may find habitable conditions, or even signs that life once existed there.That’s why NASA launched the Europa Clipper mission back in 2024. The probe will reach Europa in 2030, hoping to observe and find potential ev...
Central Florida Public Media •

Artemis II on the cover of TIME and Pandora on the hunt for other worlds

The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be launched on a mission to the moon and back no earlier than March. This will be the first time humans have been to the moon since 1972.Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large at TIME, called Artemis II a landmark for humanity, and believes the crew feels the weight of the mission.“None of these crew members were alive the last time we walked on the moon....
Central Florida Public Media •

Artemis II, lunar lessons and Canadian contributions

Col. Jeremy Hansen, an astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist, will be the first Canadian sent to the moon.He was a part of the Canadian Space Agency’s third round of astronaut recruitment in 2009. Given the Canadian Space Agency’s relatively small size, the milestone pleasantly surprised fellow Canadian Jake Robbins, the co-host of Off Nominal.“It's only been American astronauts who have ever left low-Earth orbit, and if you knew nothing about this mission, and you'd asked yourself in the...
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