Liftoff is a podcast about space, the universe, and everything. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the major developments as explained by enthusiastic space fans Stephen Hackett and Jason Snell. Hosted by Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett.
This fortnight, 2014 MU69 comes into focus, SLS has a new paint job and Stephen and Jason talk about the two rockets used in Project Mercury and the first two crewed American spaceflights.
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Links and Show Notes New Horizons’ next target might be a binary pair – Spaceflight Now Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto - The New York Times Function over form: NASA's Space Launch System gets a new paint job | The Planetary Society Membership - Relay FM Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury-crop - Project Mercury - Wikipedia IBM 701 - Wikipedia Liftoff #48: Hidden Figures - Relay FM Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia Mercury-Redstone 4 - Wikipedia Beyond Spaceship Earth | The Children's Museum of Indianapolis