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 100: Patreon Supporter Appreciation Episode
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- This week in SF history
- March 16, March 17, 1926: first two launches of Goddard’s liquid fueled rocket (wikipedia.org)
- Watch Tim Dodd recreate this event in Kerbal Space Program live on Wednesday night on twitch.tv/everydayastronaut
- Spaceflight news
- Constellation 2.0 w/ “Rocket Dan” Daan van Hereten (spacenews.com)
- Slide images (and further discussion) of the Next-Gen lineup (nasaspaceflight.com)
- New Glenn gets two customer contracts
- EuTelsat (spacenews.com)
- OneWeb (spacenews.com)
- OneWeb is considering 2000 additional satellites (HT: Sam Moore spacenews.com)
- New Protons in the works w/ Chris Radcliff (spacenews.com)
- Constellation 2.0 w/ “Rocket Dan” Daan van Hereten (spacenews.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- smbc-comics.com/soonish
- F9 giveaway with Troy Wuelfing
- First correct guess! twitter.com/jabe8
- Make your own, and see more photos (thingiverse.com)
- reddit.com/u/twuelfing
- Big thanks to Tim Dodd for our special outro music!
Orbital ATK's Next Gen Launcher lineup, as gleaned from presentation photos