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 428: Actual Human Ballast
Spaceflight News
— Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be)
Short & Sweet
— Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com)
— Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews)
— China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord bot
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com)
— Next week (10/10 - 10/16) in 2000: Four forbidden cough drops