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Episode 109: Dropped Dome
- This week in SF history
- May 17, 2004, launch of GoFast, the first amateur rocket to make it over the Karman Line with verification (the-rocketman.com)
- The clue was from 2014 launch footage (youtube.com)
- Spaceflight news
- Xaero-B damaged during test flight (parabolicarc.com)
- In other Masten news, they did a hotfire of Broadsword this week. (spaceflightinsider.com)
- This is a scale version (HT Sam Moore: twitter.com/spacecom)
- SLS LOX qual dome damaged (twitter.com/jeff_foust)
- Lightfoot: if we put crew on EM-1, realistically could not have launched it until 1st or 2nd quarter of 2020. (twitter.com/jeff_foust)
- Short & Sweet
- Dr. Jim Green, NASA Planetary Science Division Director suggested at the "Humans 2 Mars Summit" that SpaceX might do two Red Dragon missions in 2020. But no official confirmation from SpaceX. (parabolicarc.com)
- Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Hydrocarbon Boost Technology Demonstrator (parabolicarc.com)
- Xaero-B damaged during test flight (parabolicarc.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Ben Hallert via email: Vector-R was 4500 feet, not 50,000
CSXT with the GoFast rocket