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Episode 79: DOWNLINK--Hugh Blair-Smith
- This week in SF history
- Oct 11-18 1969: Soyuz 6, 7, 8
- Spaceflight news
- Stratolaunch selects a rocket passenger (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Successful Abort of New Shepard Capsule (spaceflightnow.com)
- Matthew damage at KSC (spaceflightnow.com)(flickr.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/nerobro COPV resonant forces (Video: reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast) (Original comment: reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Bagtaggar ITS sketches (instagram.com/bagtaggar)
- Interview: Hugh Blair-Smith,
- YUL code was recently scanned and archived (archive.org)
- MoonJS, an AGC/DSKY simulator (svtsim.com)
- AGC operations handbook (project-apollo.info)
- Hugh’s book
- Primary distributor; SDP has a lower price and gives Hugh a larger cut (sdppublishingsolutions.com)
- Cheaper international shipping (amazon.com)
- Further book recommendations
- Journey to the moon Eldon C Hall (amazon.com)
- Hugh’s response (ibiblio.org)
- Apollo Guidance Computer: Architechture and Operation by Frank O’Brien (amazon.com)
- Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins (amazon.com)
- Digital Apollo by David A. Mindell (amazon.com)
- Hugh’s response (.doc: mit.edu)
- Two sides of the moon by Dave Scott and Alexei Leonov (amazon.com)
- Journey to the moon Eldon C Hall (amazon.com)
- Find Hugh at
- Mitrocketscientist.com
- facebook.com/MitRocketScientist