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Episode 148: Striking Distance
This week in SF history
-- March 9, 1955: original airing of Walt Disney’s Disneyland episode 20: Man in Space (youtu.be) (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- GAO releases report on JWST construction issues (arstechnica.com) (gao.gov)
-- First Falcon 9 Block 5 on the test stand (nasaspaceflight.com)
-- Good summary of all the upgrades (reddit.com/r/spacex/)
Short & Sweet
-- Falcon Heavy scheduled for June launch. (spaceflightnow.com)
-- Hayabusa2 sights Ryugu (parabolicarc.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- Ben Hallert via email: Deke Slayton flew a B-25 not a B-52