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Episode 155: Party Balloon
This week in SF history
— 24 April 1972. Liftoff of Apollo 16 LM from the moon. (wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (apolloproject.com)
Spaceflight news
— SpaceX wants to use a ballute to recover S2 (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Ballistic coefficient will be reduced by two orders of magnitude (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Might not be insane to land under helium?!? (reddit.com/r/spacex)
— JPL studied ballutes for aerocapture (PDF: jpl.nasa.gov)
— Orbital ATK announces OmegA, formerly Next Generation Launch System (spacenews.com)
— Anthony Colangelo did some anaysis over on MECO (mainenginecutoff.com)
Short & Sweet
— Lockheed Martin wants to reduce Orion costs by 50 percent. (spacenews.com)
— Not quite Business Time (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Tess Caswell via email: a paper on NTRS about trends in cabin air loss and how they are measured from nitrogen loss over time: (ntrs.nasa.gov)