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 8: Breathe
- Spaceflight news
- Curiosity arm short resolved (Space.com) (Space.com)
- Orb ATK SLS solid test
- More on thrust profiles for solids. (Planetary.org)
- quench tool (Twitter)
- Lockheed Martin unveils Jupiter space tug, and Exoliner supply module (Space.com)
- Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA does AMA on Thursday (/r/IAmA)
- US Plutonium-238 supply good for three more Curiosity-size missions (SFN)
- Discussion, questions, comments
- @smartereveryday: no longer furloughed
- IMAX movie shot on ISS (YouTube)
- @spacepauls: Love the podcast! Out of curiosity are either of you engineers or scientists and are your jobs in any way related to space?
- Ben mentioned the Challenger Center, and here's the relevant TMRO episode
- @spacepauls: Dream chaser based on HL-20, not X-35
- STEREO A and B not in LaGrange points but rather drifting around in opposite directions, currently on far side of sun.
- Breathable atmospheres
- Upcoming spaceflight events
- March 18: Express AM7
- On Proton from Baikonur
- March 21: Turkmensat
- Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral
- March 25: GPS 2F-9
- Delta 4 from Cape Canaveral
- March 25: IGS Optical 5
- H-IIA from Tanegashima
- March 26: Kompsat 3A
- On Dnepr from Dombarovski
- March 27: ISS TMA-16M
- On Soyuz from Baikonur
- March 27: Galileo FOC-3 “Adam”, FOC-4 “Anastasia”
- Soyuz 2-1b from French Guiana
- Up for grabs still
- Super Strypi • ORS 4
- PSLV • IRNSS 1D
- Rockot • Gonets M
- Soyuz 2-1v • Kanopus ST
- March 18: Express AM7