What do meerkats and comets have in common? Well, besides both being created by God, which is no small thing, you'll have to just listen to this month's episode of Good Heavens! to find out the answer! If we told you everything in the show notes, you might not end up listening! This month, Wayne and Dan give some updates on the science of interstellar comet 3i-ATLAS, talk about meerkats, stars, and a fantastic new discovery announced in December of last year that has astronomers' heads spinning!

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We have another interstellar visitor in the solar system, something truly out of this (particular) world!

Is it an alien spacecraft? Is it a comet? A sign of the end of the world? An asteroid? Demons just messing with us? What's All the Gas About?

Here on this episode of Good Heavens! we cut through all the viral hype and make some biblical sense of this wondrous interstellar object. Come and see!

NASA fast facts on this mysterious object:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

Thumbnail image credit: NASA

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This is Mark and Rita's first-ever podcast interview! The Schrocks are fellow Christians and engineer specialists at NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas and share with us what working at Mission Control is like. We talk about everything from landing on the moon, to Space Shuttle missions and even what they think of aliens!

And of course, we talk about how we believe it all points to the glory of God. Human space exploration is good, but it isn't safe.

Mark is the chief design engineer behind the Space Shuttle's Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver which was first performed on STS-114, the first shuttle mission after the tragic loss of Columbia in February of 2003.

Twenty-one shuttle missions performed Mark's RPM.

• Discovery: STS-114, STS-121, STS-116, STS-120, STS-124, STS-119, STS-128, STS-131, STS-133

• Atlantis: STS-115, STS-117, STS-122, STS-129, STS-132, STS-135

• Endeavor: STS-118, STS-123, STS-126, STS-127, STS-130, STS-134.

Dan's full interview with Charlie Duke.

Sound clips from Mission Control: NASA/Johnson Space Center.

Reading of Psalm 19 at the beginning is Apollo 16 astronaut and CAPCOM of Apollo 11 Charlie Duke.

Thumbnail image: Mark and Rita Schrock. If you zoom in, you can find Rita standing center in a black shirt and khakis. Mark is standing directly left, to Rita's right. Astronauts at the International Space Station took the autographed picture of the Mission Control Visiting Vehicle Officer group to space and hung it on a window with Earth hanging silently in the background.

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