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 431: Roller Coaster Tycoon
Spaceflight News
— Gaganyaan in-flight abort test (youtube.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (HT: Jatan’s Space PDF: gov.in) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM)
— Pad abort test (https://www.youtube.com)
— Future human Indian Space ambitions (gov.in) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— PLD Test Launch (spacenews.com)
— Two Vega payloads fail to deploy (europeanspaceflight.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: Shuttle astronaut mass allotments (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— October 28, 2009: Launch of the Ares I-X (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
— Next week (10/31 - 11/6) in 2011: Warning: removing this sticker will void your experiment.