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 10: LIVE-ish
- Spaceflight news
- Ad Astra wins NASA contract for VASMIR (Ad Astra)
- /u/7357 has some good, mathy criticisms (/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Zubrin talking about VASMIR and electric propulsion (Youtube)
- Opportunity’s flash memory reorganization didn’t fix the problem (JPL)(Red Orbit)
- Canada considering deployable vision system for ISS (Spaceref)
- MESSENGER’s end of mission date set for 30 April (JHUAPL)(Spaceref)
- Dragon 2 abort tests “falling into place” (@Jeff_Foust)(@Jeff_Foust)
- Ad Astra wins NASA contract for VASMIR (Ad Astra)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Amy Shira Teitel (vintagespace) plans to livetweet A13! (Twitter)
- Echologic lays out our best idea of SPX pricing (/r/spacex)
- 1000x better than helmet cams: Go Pros in space (/r/space)(archive.org)
- /r/Singlot finds a cool video that features matches on Mir (BBC iPlayer)
- SSTOs!
- The Three Rocketeers, a documentary on SKYLON's SABRE engine (YouTube)
- A short video from TLC (?!) on the Delta Clipper. Good inflight footage (YouTube)
- Upcoming spaceflight events, brought to you by twitter.com/nextlaunch (next show April 27)
- CANCELED AFTER RECORDING: Thor-7 & Sicral-2.
- April 24 - TurkmenSat-1 on Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral (livestream)
- April 28 - Progress M-27M on Soyuz-2.1a frm Baikonur (livestream)
- April 29 - Mexsat-1 on Proton from Baikonur (ILS press release)