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Episode 149: Boosters All the Way Down
This week in SF history
-- 1966 March 16: Gemini 8 (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- FH demo center booster footage (reddit.com/r/space)
-- Hispasat booster “written off” (spaceflight101.com)
Short & Sweet
-- Stratolaunch may build its own shuttle. (parabolicarc.com)
-- Stealthy Startup defies the FCC. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- Starliner/DEC/SEC
-- /u/Chairboy: Higher thrust = safer trajectory (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
-- Aaron Sawdey via email: Reference from George Sowers (thespacereview.com)
-- /u/Sknowball DEC has flown before! (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)