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Episode 80: Helium Problems at Jupiter
- This week in SF history
- October 20, 1963, birth of Julie Payette
- Spaceflight news
- Juno blows an engine (http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/nasas-juno-spacecraft-has-a-problem-with-its-engine/) (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6648)
- Starliner gets a new skirt (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/10/atlas-v-starliner-mitigate-aerodynamic-issues/)(https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/08/02/boeing-nears-fix-for-cst-100-starliner-design-hitch/)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/Bornstellar_lasting (via PM): New Glenn second stage will be a vacuum optimized BE-4, not a BE-3. That's an optional third stage.
- Photo of BEAM inspection (http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/inspecting-the-space-stations-expandable-habitat)
- AMA by an ExoMars engineer (https://www.reddit.com/r/ExoMars/comments/57md5f/exomars_ama_esas_schiaparelli_will_land_on_mars/)