Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
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Episode 418: Denial Test
Spaceflight News
Vulcan Centaur delays (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
Short & Sweet
— China begins constructing VLEO constellation (spacewatch.global)
— LandSpace wins the race (nasaspaceflight.com)
— Janus canceled (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— An NSF tour of Astra’s rocket factory (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 18 Jul, 2011. Launch of Spektr-R radio telescope (russianspaceweb.com) (wiki)
— Zenit-3M/Fregat-SB (SB - “сбрасываемые баки” or “drop tanks”) (space.skyrocket.de)
Next week (7/25 - 7/31) in 2014: He was born in Belgium, and then again in Italy.