1. Space News Update - June 2, 2015 - In the News Story 1: NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander in Preparation for Next Mission to Red Planet Story 2: Crashing Comets May Explain Mysterious Lunar Swirls Story 3: Hubble Video Shows Shock Collision Inside Black Hole JetStory 3: Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

2. NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander in Preparation for Next Mission to Red Planet

3. Crashing Comets May Explain Mysterious Lunar Swirls 1.Ratchet Wrench ‘E-mailed’ to Space Station

4. Hubble Video Shows Shock Collision Inside Black Hole Jet

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, June 2  Full Moon (exact at 12:19 p.m. EDT). The Moon rises around sunset and shines in the dim feet of Ophiuchus after dark. It forms a triangle with Antares to its right and steady Saturn farther to its upper right. Wednesday, June 3  Two shadows on Jupiter. From 9:58 to 11:13 Pacific Daylight Time, Io and Ganymede are both casting their tiny, unequal black shadows onto Jupiter's face. Jupiter's Great Red Spot transits the planet's central meridian around 8:38 p.m. PDT. Good luck; Jupiter is now almost as distant and small as it ever gets. Thursday, June 4  "Cassiopeia" usually means "Cold!" Late fall and winter are when this landmark constellation is high overhead (seen from mid-northern latitudes), but even on hot June evenings it's lurking low. After dark, look for it down near the north horizon. It's a wide, upright W. The farther north you are the higher it'll appear. But even as far south as San Diego and Atlanta it's completely above the horizon. Friday, June 5  With June under way, the Big Dipper swings around to hang down by its handle high in the northwest during evening. The middle star of its handle is Mizar, with tiny little Alcor right nex t to it. Jupiter and Venus continue closing in toward each other.

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information ISS For Denver : DateVisibleMax HeightAppearsDisappears Tue Jun 2, 9:19 PM6 min75°10 above WSW10 above NE Tue Jun 2, 11:00 PM1 min14°14 above N11 above NNE Wed Jun 3, 2:12 AM5 min19°10 above NNW10 above ENE Wed Jun 3, 3:48 AM6 min71°10 above NW10 above SE Wed Jun 3, 10:06 PM2 min20°20 above N10 above NNE Thu Jun 4, 1:21 AM1 min13°13 above NNE10 above NE Thu Jun 4, 2:54 AM6 min56°10 above NW12 above ESE Thu Jun 4, 4:34 AM1 min13°13 above SW10 above SSW Thu Jun 4, 9:09 PM6 min34°12 above W10 above NE

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA websiteNASA website MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone) Tuesday, June 2  12 p.m. - NASA Administrator’s 2015 Agency Honor Awards Ceremony (all channels)  9 p.m. - Replay of Ames Research Center Colloquium Summer Series - Rusty Schweickert (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education)) Wednesday. June 3  1 p.m. - Coverage of NASA's Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) 2015 Flight Test (all channels) Thursday, June 4  11:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 43 TBD Interviews (Starts 11:40 a.m.) (all channels)  9 p.m. - Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s von Karman Lecture: Adventures from the Field (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education))

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar  Jun 02 - 60th Anniversary (1955), Founding of the Baikonur Cosmodrome Jun 02 - 60th Anniversary (1955), Founding of the Baikonur Cosmodrome  Jun 02 - Comet 288P Closest Approach To Earth (2.233 AU) Jun 02 - Comet 288P Closest Approach To Earth (2.233 AU)  Jun 02 - Comet 176P/LINEAR At Opposition (2.503 AU) Jun 02 - Comet 176P/LINEAR At Opposition (2.503 AU)  Jun 02 - Asteroid 129564 Christy Closest Approach To Earth (1.498 AU) Jun 02 - Asteroid 129564 Christy Closest Approach To Earth (1.498 AU)  Jun 03 - 50th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 4 Launch, USA's First Spacewalk (Ed White) Jun 03 - 50th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 4 Launch, USA's First Spacewalk (Ed White)  Jun 03 - 2nd Test Flight of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Jun 03 - 2nd Test Flight of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD)  Jun 03 - Comet 229P/Gibbs At Opposition (3.576 AU) Jun 03 - Comet 229P/Gibbs At Opposition (3.576 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KM57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KM57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KV120 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KV120 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KN18 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 2015 KN18 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 1580 Betulia Closest Approach To Earth (0.352 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 1580 Betulia Closest Approach To Earth (0.352 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 243097 Batavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.615 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 243097 Batavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.615 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.791 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.791 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 46977 Krakow Closest Approach To Earth (2.382 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 46977 Krakow Closest Approach To Earth (2.382 AU)  Jun 03 - Asteroid 30826 Coulomb Closest Approach To Earth (2.499 AU) Jun 03 - Asteroid 30826 Coulomb Closest Approach To Earth (2.499 AU)  Jun 04 - Comet 18D/Perrine-Mrkos At Opposition (3.760 AU) Jun 04 - Comet 18D/Perrine-Mrkos At Opposition (3.760 AU)  Jun 04 - Asteroid 417211 (2005 XL80) Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU) Jun 04 - Asteroid 417211 (2005 XL80) Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)  Jun 04 - Asteroid 6239 Minos Closest Approach To Earth (0.319 AU) Jun 04 - Asteroid 6239 Minos Closest Approach To Earth (0.319 AU)  Jun 04 - Asteroid 1789 Dobrovolsky Closest Approach To Earth (1.004 AU) Jun 04 - Asteroid 1789 Dobrovolsky Closest Approach To Earth (1.004 AU)  Jun 04 - Asteroid 4352 Kyoto Closest Approach To Earth (2.269 AU) Jun 04 - Asteroid 4352 Kyoto Closest Approach To Earth (2.269 AU)  Jun 04 - Asteroid 76272 De Jong Closest Approach To Earth (2.497 AU) Jun 04 - Asteroid 76272 De Jong Closest Approach To Earth (2.497 AU)  Jun 04 - 125th Anniversary (1890), Kakangari Meteorite Fall in India Jun 04 - 125th Anniversary (1890), Kakangari Meteorite Fall in India  Jun 04 - 2795th Anniversary (780 BC), 1st Reliable Record of a Total Solar Eclipse (Chinese) Jun 04 - 2795th Anniversary (780 BC), 1st Reliable Record of a Total Solar Eclipse (Chinese)  Jun 05 - Comet 299P/Catalina-PANSTARRS Closest Approach To Earth (2.171 AU) Jun 05 - Comet 299P/Catalina-PANSTARRS Closest Approach To Earth (2.171 AU)  Jun 05 - Asteroid 2015 KA122 Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU) Jun 05 - Asteroid 2015 KA122 Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)  Jun 05 - Asteroid 2015 KT121 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU) Jun 05 - Asteroid 2015 KT121 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)  Jun 05 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (1.992 A U) Jun 05 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (1.992 A U)

9. Food for Thought How Long Will Our Spacecraft Survive? New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale

10. Sun Says "Keep Right" Credit: NASA/SDO Space Image of the Week