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Episode 9: Radiation
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- Spaceflight news
- Bolden calls for ending Opportunity funding (planetary.org)(Opinion: roadtoendevour)
- SPX to recover fairings with helicopters (Imgur via /r/SpaceX)
- SPX also put all photos under Creative Commons License for 20 minutes, then goes public domain (VICE) (Twitter)
- Shotwell does a testimony before US House Armed Services Committee. (Youtube)(Soundbyte)
- TurkmenSat delayed due to He bottle issue (Zero G)
- NASA teams up with SNC (NASA) (Project life-cycle, fig. 5-2, NASA)
- SNC secures Huston landing site for uncrewed Dreamchaser (Parabolic)
- Mangalyaan mission extended 6 months (The Hindu)
- Questions, comments, corrections;
- Ep 10 webcast: April 12 at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific
- Ben Feist’s A-17 in real time (benfeist.com)(apollo17.org)
- Radiation
- Upcoming spaceflight events
- April 10: SPX CRS-6 on Falcon 9 (Live coverage on Twitter)
- April 15: Thor 7 & Sicral 2 on Ariane 5
xkcd.com/radiation is a great chart to help put dosages in perspective.