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Episode 150: The One With the Mystery Guest
This week in SF history
-- 25 March, 1928. Birth of Jim Lovell (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- News about the Soyuz smallsat partial failure last year (spacenews.com)
-- Roscosmos recently issued a document to Astro Digital, allowing them to successfully make an insurance claim (spacenews.com)
-- NASA releases analysis of CRS-7 failure (spaceflightnow.com)
Short & Sweet
-- GRACE 1 re-enters after 16 years in orbit (spaceflight101.com)
-- CST-100 gets its reentry thrusters (spaceflightinsider.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- Ben Hallert via email: Shuttle-Centaur never flew, and here’s why. (arstechnica.com)
-- Splashdown bingo: Tiangong 1
-- theorbitalmechanics.com/splashdown
Mystery Guest #1
-- We discussed an awesome event coming up in Chicago (eventbrite.com)
-- We discussed a book (amazon.com)
-- Guest’s website (SPOILERS)
-- A related YT playlist that Ben thinks the listener will like (youtube.com)